Senior Android Engineer - Public Transit, Hybrid NYC

Remix; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical plans

401K matching

Catered lunch on Wednesdays

Job summary

Via is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own the rider Android experience, from booking to core infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to ship high-quality features and ensure a fast, reliable app. The role blends hands-on development with architecture decisions and on-call responsibilities.

You will be onsite in NYC 2-3 days a week in this hybrid position, mentoring teammates and driving performance improvements across the mobile stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Android development experience with Kotlin and Android lifecycle knowledge.
• Strong grasp of Android architecture patterns, Jetpack Compose, RESTful APIs; performance and memory handling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to deliver rider Android app features.
• Own development and continuous improvement of Via's rider Android app across booking and account management.
• Architect and evolve mobile infrastructure services for app performance and reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues in live environments.
• Mentor and guide engineers on Android development and code reviews.

Skills

Kotlin

Android Lifecycle

Jetpack Compose

RESTful APIs

Performance tuning

Memory management

Coroutines

RxJava

Location Services

Maps APIs

Mapbox

Mentoring

Collaboration

Tools

None

Job description

Via is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to own the rider Android experience, from booking to core infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to ship high-quality features and ensure a fast, reliable app. The role blends hands-on development with architecture decisions and on-call responsibilities.

You will be onsite in NYC 2-3 days a week in this hybrid position, mentoring teammates and driving performance improvements across the mobile stack.