Senior Android Platform Architect

Baxter International; Town of Skaneateles (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

ESPP and 401(k)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid holidays & time off

Dependent care benefits

Job summary

Baxter is seeking a Principal Android Software Engineer to lead architecture and delivery of shared Android capabilities powering clinical product apps worldwide. You will own significant portions of the Android system design, mentor engineers, and drive high-quality, regulated software across multiple products.

An ideal candidate has deep hands-on Android expertise, a clear technical vision for multi-product platform software, and the ability to influence cross-team decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience, including extensive Android application development.
• Proven experience leading technical architecture and development across complex mobile platforms, shared services, or multi‑product ecosystems.
• Expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, including networking, dependency injection, multithreading/coroutines, APIs, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Android Architecture and Delivery: Define and evolve shared Android platform architecture (Kotlin services, DI, WebView/JS bridge patterns, messaging/broker integration, networking foundations) used by multiple product apps, and drive implementation of high-reliability reusable capabilities.
• Own Cross-Product Platform Capabilities: Lead design and development of common on-device building blocks such as authentication, clinical data and patient workflows, foreground services, camera and ML integration patterns, local networking, and secure peripheral/device connectivity APIs that product teams can adopt consistently.
• Enable Product Teams: Partner with product engineering teams consuming the platform, gather requirements and feedback, publish clear contracts and guidance, and keep product apps aligned with platform conventions, versioning, and release trains.
• Raise Engineering Quality: Set coding standards, lead design and code reviews, strengthen unit/instrumentation/automated test strategy, and guide CI/CD, static analysis, and release practices appropriate for medical software shared across products.
• Mentor and Multiply the Team: Coach senior and mid-level engineers, unblock technical issues, and establish patterns that improve velocity and long‑term maintainability across platform and consuming product software teams.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with systems, hardware, clinical, and product partners to translate multi-product needs into robust Android platform designs; represent Android technical trade-offs in planning and design reviews.

Skills

Android architecture

Kotlin

Cross-functional leadership

Healthcare domain

Mentoring

Communication

Regulated environment

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Tools

CI/CD practices

Android SDKs

Job description

Baxter is seeking a Principal Android Software Engineer to lead architecture and delivery of shared Android capabilities powering clinical product apps worldwide. You will own significant portions of the Android system design, mentor engineers, and drive high-quality, regulated software across multiple products.

An ideal candidate has deep hands-on Android expertise, a clear technical vision for multi-product platform software, and the ability to influence cross-team decisions.