Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership)

Meta; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a principal engineer to lead Android technical leadership across mobile platforms, guiding complex problems, shipping features, and driving scalable products used by billions.

You will collaborate with product and research leaders to shape multi-year roadmaps and drive performance improvements while advancing AI-enabled workflows. Strong communication and strategic vision are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations.
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions.
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap linking short-term to long-term mission.
• Experience using data to explain technical problems and provide solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that improve organizational efficiency.
• Communicate complex features and systems clearly and effectively.
• Assess industry trends and develop new technologies.
• Partner with organization leaders to improve team and organizational performance.
• Identify opportunities and influence staffing/prioritizing these ideas for impact.
• Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts.
• Gather and synthesize requirements to create effective feature roadmaps.
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, reducing technical debt.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Multi-year roadmap planning

Data-driven problem solving

Android development

AI tools integration

Ethical AI practices

Prompt engineering

Tools

Android SDK

Job description

Summary:

Meta is seeking talented principal engineers to join our teams in building cutting-edge products that connect billions of people around the world. As a member of our team, you will oversee complex technical problems, build new features, and improve existing products across various platforms, including mobile devices and web applications. Our teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of user experience, and we're looking for passionate individuals who can help us advance the way people connect globally. If you're interested in leading a world-class team of engineers and researchers to work on exciting projects that have significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities:

1. Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient

2. Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail

3. Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies

4. Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization

5. Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas

6. Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts

7. Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap

8. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

2. Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations

3. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

4. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission

5. Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management

2. 4+ years of experience building Android applications in Java using Android SDK

3. Shipped at least one large-scale product to production, supporting millions of active users

4. Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques

5. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

6. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

7. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$219,000/year to $301,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and