Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & Dental

HSA/FSA

Parental leave

Paid time off

Fertility stipend

Wellness benefits

Lunches provided

Job summary

Verkada is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to own the native foundations of our mobile platform in a fast-growing, security-focused company. You will develop and evolve the Native Component Library with Jetpack Compose, improve the Android DX via CI/CD improvements and automation, and ensure a robust networking stack with offline-first capabilities.

You will also integrate low-level hardware communication and a secure native-web bridge to keep the mobile experience fast and reliable.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional Android development
• Mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK
• Strong experience with mobile CI/CD and a test-first mentality
• Experience with tooling that boosts developer productivity
• Deep understanding of networking stacks (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and offline-first sync
• Hands-on experience with BLE and NFC
• Jetpack Compose expertise and shared UI libraries
• Release engineering for Google Play with frequent deployments

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the Native Component Library built with Jetpack Compose
• Elevate Android Developer Experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and test automation
• Maintain a high-performance networking stack with offline-first sync
• Own low-level hardware integration with BLE/NFC and secure data transit
• Develop the Native-Web bridge for secure interaction with web components
• Evaluate architecture patterns like Server-Driven UI to balance native performance and velocity

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Bitrise

Networking (OkHttp/ Retrofit)

Protobuf

BLE/NFC

Android background execution

Tools

GitHub Actions

Bitrise

OkHttp

Retrofit

Protobuf

Job description

Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems

San Mateo, CA United States

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security. As our ecosystem grows, our Mobile Core team is pivoting to a high-leverage Platform model.

The Mobile Core team provides the underlying systems, frameworks, and components used by product teams across the company to build high-performance mobile experiences. In this role, you will be a key technical contributor "Native Systems Layer"—ensuring that our mobile foundation is reliable, scalable, and easy for other teams to build upon. You will also focus on the specialized native challenges that cannot be solved with web technology, ensuring the Verkada mobile experience remains fast, secure, and deeply integrated with the Android OS.

What You’ll Do

• Native UI Platform: Maintain and evolve our existing Native Component Library built with Jetpack Compose. You will ensure these "Lego bricks" are scalable, accessible, and easily consumable by other product teams to ensure a consistent, fluid experience.
• Platform Infrastructure & DX: Elevate the "Developer Experience" for Android. This includes optimizing our CI/CD pipelines, expanding test automation strategies, and hardening an automated, multi-team release process.
• Network & Reliability Layer: Maintain a high-performance networking stack that handles the complexities of offline-first synchronization, intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud.
• Systems & Hardware Integration: Own the implementation of low-level protocols (BLE, NFC, and custom Wi‑Fi handshakes) that allow phones to talk to our physical hardware securely and reliably.
• The Native-Web Bridge: Optimize the type-safe communication layer that allows dynamic web-based components to interact securely with native device sensors, secure enclaves, and core system logic.
• Architecture Evolution: Act as a technical consultant to other product teams, evaluating new patterns (such as Server-Driven UI) to determine how we can best balance native performance with global engineering velocity.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of professional Android development with a deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Infrastructure & Tooling: Strong experience with mobile CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise) and a "test-first" mentality. You enjoy building tools that make other engineers more productive.
• Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of the networking stack (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and experience handling unreliable network conditions at scale.
• Hardware & Connectivity: Hands‑on experience with Bluetooth (BLE), NFC, or the nuances of Android background execution limits.
• Modern UI Mastery: Expert proficiency in Jetpack Compose and experience scaling shared UI libraries across multiple teams.
• Release Engineering: Experience managing the complexity of the Google Play Store release cycle for apps with high deployment frequency and multiple contributors.

Why Join Us

• Force Multiplier: You aren't just shipping features; you are building the foundation. Every improvement you make to the platform is a win for dozens of other engineers and thousands of customers.
• The "Hard" Problems: You get to focus on the deep-tech challenges that web technology can't touch: hardware handshakes, battery-efficient backgrounding, and high-performance infrastructure.
• Direct Impact: Work at a company with proven product‑market fit, where your work directly protects people and assets worldwide.
• Onsite Collaboration: Partner daily with hardware and firmware teams in an environment that values technical excellence and fast iteration.

US Employee Benefits

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and well‑being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

$150,000 - $265,000 USD

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