Senior Android Engineer - Remote, Impactful App Growth

Social Impact Guide; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to advance the App Experience and Growth teams. This role emphasizes delivering scalable Android components for a global audience, collaborating with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to balance user needs with technical constraints.

You will own end-to-end features, enhance performance, and contribute to testing, observability, and documentation while aligning with team standards and the mission of Wikimedia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 5-10+ years of professional Android experience.
• Strong experience with Kotlin, XML and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with performance optimization for Android apps; strong debugging and profiling skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver medium-complexity initiatives from discovery to delivery.
• Lead design and build of scalable Android components for a multilingual audience.
• Instrument features for deep product analytics and observability.
• Collaborate with product, design and other engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
• Prioritize work and align on outcomes, capacity and timelines.
• Follow team standards for code reviews, design, testing, and accessibility.

Skills

Clear communicator

Autonomy

Feedback culture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Android architecture patterns

Android performance optimization

Job description

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to advance the App Experience and Growth teams. This role emphasizes delivering scalable Android components for a global audience, collaborating with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to balance user needs with technical constraints.

You will own end-to-end features, enhance performance, and contribute to testing, observability, and documentation while aligning with team standards and the mission of Wikimedia.