Senior Android Engineer: Build Scalable, Delightful Apps

Peraton; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. You will own key technical decisions, collaborate with product, design, backend, and quality teams, and contribute to a reliable customer value delivery.

The role requires deep Android expertise, plus practical iOS familiarity to inform cross-platform tradeoffs. You will mentor engineers, participate in planning, and help raise the team’s technical

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of production Android apps.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.
• Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.
• Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.
• Write clear technical designs; surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.
• Build accessible, responsive interfaces in partnership with product design and research.
• Improve automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers; promote quality in daily practice.
• Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.
• Collaborate with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.
• Mentor engineers, review code thoughtfully, and raise the team’s practices without creating bottlenecks.
• Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

REST/GraphQL

Testing & debugging

Mentoring

Communication

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related field

High school diploma

Job description

Peraton seeks a Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. You will own key technical decisions, collaborate with product, design, backend, and quality teams, and contribute to a reliable customer value delivery.

The role requires deep Android expertise, plus practical iOS familiarity to inform cross-platform tradeoffs. You will mentor engineers, participate in planning, and help raise the team’s technical