Senior Android Engineer - Remote Latam

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Paid Time Off

Health Insurance Subsidy

Annual Salary Reviews

Paid Training & Certifications

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to build reliable, accessible Android experiences for creators and users. You will lead feature development and production ownership, shaping architecture while mentoring teammates and upholding high quality standards.

This remote role welcomes candidates across LATAM, with an emphasis on scalable, secure mobile solutions and robust testing. Join a team delivering impactful, user-centered mobile experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial native Android development.

Responsibilities

• Own Android features from design through implementation, testing, release, and production monitoring.
• Build intuitive and accessible mobile interfaces for creators and users.
• Develop resilient integrations across APIs, authentication, caching, and background processing.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

Jetpack

Android architecture

API integration

Automated testing

Mentoring engineers

CI/CD

Tools

Android Studio

Firebase

GitHub Actions

Job description

Location: Remote - LATAM

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reports To: Engineering Lead

About the Company

A creator-powered social platform focused on helping creators, consumers, and customers connect, engage, and grow. The platform includes mobile and web experiences designed to support a growing community of creators and users. The company is in a high-iteration stage of product growth, with a strong focus on improving existing products, expanding capabilities, and building reliable, scalable experiences for a broader audience.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer — Android to help build reliable, accessible, and high-quality Android experiences that enable creators to publish, connect, and grow.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role combining feature development, production ownership, technical problem-solving, and engineering mentorship. You will have an opportunity to influence Android architecture and engineering practices while helping the team move quickly without compromising stability or maintainability.

What You’ll Do

Android Development

• - Own Android features from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and production monitoring.
• - Build intuitive and accessible mobile interfaces for creators and users.
• - Develop resilient integrations across APIs, authentication, caching, and background processing.
• - Contribute to Android architecture and technical decisions that improve scalability and maintainability.

Production & Reliability

• - Diagnose and resolve crashes, performance issues, memory problems, device-specific behavior, and network-related issues.
• - Monitor production performance and proactively identify areas for improvement.
• - Improve application stability, release quality, and overall user experience.
• - Participate in a defined production-support rotation and take ownership of issues through resolution.

Engineering Excellence

• - Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• - Strengthen automated test coverage for critical Android user journeys.
• - Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful technical feedback.
• - Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• - Help identify and reduce recurring defects and development bottlenecks.

AI-Assisted Development

• - We value engineers who are effective working both with and without agentic/generative AI coding tools.
• - Independently design, write, debug, test, and maintain production-quality software.
• - Use coding assistants and AI agents effectively to accelerate development and problem-solving.
• - Carefully review and validate AI-generated code through testing and engineering judgment.
• - Remain fully accountable for the correctness, security, performance, and maintainability of AI-assisted work.
• - Follow appropriate practices for protecting proprietary code and sensitive information when using AI tools.

What We’re Looking For

• - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial native Android development experience.
• - Strong experience with Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack, Android lifecycle, concurrency, and API integration.
• - Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production Android applications.
• - Strong automated testing experience.
• - Experience troubleshooting mobile applications across different devices, networks, and performance conditions.
• - Understanding of mobile security, accessibility, CI/CD, and application release processes.
• - Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• - Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with Product, Design, QA, backend, and iOS teams.
• - Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical guidance.
• - Experience working on media, creator, social, community, or social-feed products is a plus.

Your First 90 Days

Days 1–30

• - Become familiar with the Android architecture, codebase, development practices, and release process.
• - Understand key user journeys and identify stability, performance, and technical risks.
• - Establish baseline metrics for application reliability and performance.

Days 31–60

• - Ship a well-tested feature or priority production improvement.
• - Implement appropriate monitoring and ensure production performance is tracked.
• - Contribute to code quality, testing, and architecture improvements.

Days 61–90

• - Deliver measurable improvement to a key reliability, performance, or development bottleneck.
• - Help reduce recurring defects or improve release predictability.
• - Establish a technical improvement plan with the engineering team.

12–18 Month Outcomes

• - Consistently delivering roadmap features against agreed requirements and timelines.
• - Improving crash-free usage and key application performance metrics.
• - Strengthening automated coverage of critical Android user journeys.
• - Reducing recurring defects and improving release predictability.
• - Contributing to a more scalable, maintainable Android architecture.
• - Helping establish stronger engineering practices across the mobile development team.

Reporting & Collaboration

This is a Senior Individual Contributor position reporting to the Engineering Lead.

You will work closely with:

• - Android and iOS Engineering
• - Backend Engineering
• - QA
• - Product
• - Design

You will also contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, production support, and engineering standards across the organization.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to own meaningful Android experiences for a growing creator-powered social platform while helping shape the technical standards, architecture, and engineering practices that support its next stage of growth.

You’ll have meaningful ownership over production software, the opportunity to work with modern AI-assisted development practices, and the ability to make a direct impact on how creators and users experience the platform.

Join Us and Enjoy These Perks!

• Competitive Salary: Earn a USD salary that matches your skills and experience.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO to support your work-life balance and recharge.
• Health Insurance Subsidy: Financial assistance to support your healthcare coverage.
• Annual Salary Reviews: Structured annual evaluations to recognize and reward performance.
• Paid Training & Certifications: Continuous support for professional growth and upskilling.

Ready to put your puzzle-solving skills to the test? Join our team today!

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