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 programs

Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage

Paid parental leave policy

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Mobile Core team engineer in San Mateo, CA, to enhance their cloud-managed physical security platform. The position requires over 6 years of Android development experience, a strong command of Kotlin, and expertise in CI/CD tools. Responsibilities include evolving the Native Component Library and maintaining a high-performance networking stack. Competitive salary range is $150,000 to $265,000 USD per year, with comprehensive employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional Android development experience.
• Deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Strong experience with mobile CI/CD, such as GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the existing Native Component Library.
• Elevate Developer Experience for Android, optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain a high-performance networking stack.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

CI/CD

Networking stack

Bluetooth (BLE)

Jetpack Compose

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI‑powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100+ companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full‑time employees.

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 in the 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

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources.

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial 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 Savings 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 paid holidays, firm‑wide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time.
• Professional development stipend.
• Fertility stipend.
• Wellness/fitness benefits.
• Healthy lunches provided daily.
• Commuter benefits.

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

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

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