Senior Software Engineer, Android — AI-Native Client Platform

Francisco Partners; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

NewsBreak, Mountain View, CA, is seeking an Android engineer with deep Kotlin expertise to architect and ship scalable Android apps. You’ll work on our flagship app and future products, guiding AI-assisted development and ensuring robust, reusable architecture across the platform.

You will verify AI-generated code, drive modularization, and ship features end-to-end. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Android, ownership mindset, and cross-platform experience, with a strong focus on performance and

Qualifications

• 5+ years building Android apps at scale.
• You’ve owned app-level architecture and lived with the consequences.

Responsibilities

• Architect Android systems for flagship app and new products, ensuring codebase clarity for engineers and AI agents.
• Drive modularization to ship shared capabilities across apps.
• Ship end-to-end user-facing features—growth, feed, new app product needs.
• Set quality bars for AI-assisted development and release gates.
• Tackle performance and production challenges and document playbooks.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Architecture ownership

AI code review

Tools

Kotlin Multiplatform

Flutter

React Native

CI tooling

Job description

About NewsBreak

Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.

Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.

If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about

Location: Mountain View, CA

About the team

We’re rebuilding how NewsBreak ships mobile software. An in-house auto-dev bot already lands reviewed PRs daily — most merged client PRs start from an agent. Engineers here don’t just write features: they design the architecture, conventions, and guardrails that let humans and AI build together safely, across our flagship app and a matrix of new products (Lite, short-drama, local). This is a builder role with a dual mandate: roughly half your time advances the platform, half ships business impact — and the point is that the first keeps shrinking the cost of the second.

What you’ll do

• Architect Android systems — from our flagship app to 0-to-1 new products — so every codebase stays legible to both engineers and AI agents.
• Drive modularization: extract shared capabilities so they ship once and run across apps.
• Ship user-facing features end-to-end — growth, feed, and new-app product needs — through the same AI-assisted workflow you’re improving: your platform work is measured by how much faster these ship.
• Set the quality bar for AI-assisted development: review standards, safety nets, release gates.
• Solve the hardest performance and production problems, and turn what you learn into playbooks the whole team builds on.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years building Android apps at scale; deep Kotlin, Jetpack Compose.
• You’ve owned app-level architecture and lived with the consequences.
• You verify before you ship — including (especially) AI-generated code.
• Bonus: cross-platform experience (Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native) — our app matrix ships on both platforms.
• Bonus: developer tooling / CI quality gates that made a team measurably faster.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is listed below. Pay may vary based on a number of factors including job-related skills, level, experience, geographic location and relevant education or training. At NewsBreak, we design our overall rewards package to attract top talents. Depending on the position, the role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus and options.

Annual Base Pay Range

$118,000 — $212,000 USD

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