Software Developer – Android

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a technical leader to design and drive high-performance Android experiences in San Francisco. You will own architecture, modularization, and cross-team collaboration to deliver scalable, reusable components across Android, iOS, and Web.

You will apply AI-driven automation, improve observability, and guide production readiness while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical roadmap in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading Android architecture initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern concurrency tools.
• Experience decomposing monoliths and building modular, reusable libraries.
• Strong abilities in performance, observability, and production debugging.
• Experience applying AI and automation to speed up development and reliability.
• Mentor and lead across multiple teams, aligning to business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability and cross-platform reuse.
• Own full lifecycle: idea, API design, instrumentation, CI/CD, testing, telemetry, and iteration.
• Evolve architecture to enable reuse across Android, iOS, and Web; adopt new platform capabilities.
• Apply AI-driven tooling to improve developer velocity and reliability.
• Define observability standards and production diagnostics for mobile clients.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Architecture leadership

Modularization

Performance optimization

Observability

AI in development

Mentoring

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance Android applications using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Java.
• Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability and cross-platform reuse.
• Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: feature ideation, API design, instrumentation, deployment (CI/CD), live-traffic monitoring, unit/UI/e2e testing, user telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration.
• Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, build shared libraries and frameworks, improve modularization, enable reuse across Android, iOS, and Web; evaluate new Android platform capabilities (e.g., new OS releases, device types, form factors, architectures) and lead their adoption.
• Apply AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability.
• Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve app performance and user experience.
• Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault-tolerance strategies for production-grade systems.
• Partner closely with product, design, backend, and data teams to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences.
• Drive technical discussions, mentor developers, and influence strategic direction across mobile platforms.

Requirements

• A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern concurrency tools such as Coroutines and Flows.
• Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable systems that balance speed and reliability.
• Strong background in performance optimization, observability, and system-level debugging.
• Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or product intelligence.
• A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and mentors others to excel.
• Passionate about creating elegant, high-performance mobile experiences across Android’s ecosystem.
• You architect for observability, reliability, and production-readiness: you understand instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault-tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for mobile clients.
• You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you’ve been influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored/led developers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior developer/product leadership.