Senior Android Engineer — Native 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

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.