Senior Android Engineer - Lead Tech Vision & Scalable Apps

Meta; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a principal Android engineer to lead cross-functional teams and shape the long-term technical vision for large-scale mobile/web products. This role spans vision, architecture, and execution across platforms, with influence on product strategy and engineering culture.

The position emphasizes mentoring senior stakeholders, driving performance, and delivering scalable solutions that impact billions of users globally. Competitive compensation includes bonus, equity, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts.
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission.
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD.
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive mentorship

Cross-functional communication

Roadmap planning

Software development experience

Data-driven problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Android SDK

Java

Job description

Meta is seeking a principal Android engineer to lead cross-functional teams and shape the long-term technical vision for large-scale mobile/web products. This role spans vision, architecture, and execution across platforms, with influence on product strategy and engineering culture.

The position emphasizes mentoring senior stakeholders, driving performance, and delivering scalable solutions that impact billions of users globally. Competitive compensation includes bonus, equity, and benefits.