Sr. Mobile Android Engineer

SpaceXSI; Palo Alto, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Vision

Dental

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Discounts and perks

Job summary

SpaceXSI seeks an exceptional Senior Mobile Android Engineer to join a small, high-impact team building the world's most valuable AI application. Shape innovative mobile experiences, collaborate across disciplines, and own critical product challenges with a strong product sense.

You will work on cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with product insight to deliver brilliant user experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow.
• Strong product sense with ability to translate live problems into solutions.
• Experience delivering projects in production Android apps at scale.

Responsibilities

• Craft delightful, intuitive user experiences for the Android app.
• Polish visuals, interactions, and performance to feel seamless.
• Build fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts.
• Drive technical and product decisions with designers, backend, iOS and web engineers.
• Own product quality, run A/B tests, and proactively improve the app.
• Identify improvements from user feedback and daily app usage.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines

Flow

Product sense

Production apps

Android stack

iOS

Web backend

Analytics

Ownership

Autonomy

Communication

Craftsmanship

Tools

Android Studio

Gradle

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

SR. MOBILE ANDROID ENGINEER

We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with the app
• Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical and seamless
• Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts
• Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with designers, backend, iOS, and web engineers
• Own the quality of the products you build - including running a/b tests, finding issues, and proactively making improvements
• Be proactive in finding ways to improve the app - from user feedback and from your own daily experience on the app

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Very strong product sense – you spot problems in a live product and turn them into solutions that move the business forward
• A proven track record of delivering projects in production apps
• Deep expertise in the Android stack and tooling (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.)
• Experience beyond Android, such as iOS, web or backend development
• Understands analytics and data, and uses metrics to measure impact and guide product decisions
• Solid understanding of the Android platform: its strengths, limitations and trade-offs
• Experience working on large-scale production apps with millions of daily active users
• Strong ownership. You take problems from idea to release and see them through
• Works autonomously and knows when to pull others in
• Clear communicator who can explain trade-offs and decisions to engineers, designers and product partners
• High craft bar – builds intuitive, delightful user experiences and optimizes for performance, stability and reliability

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$200,000 - $375,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.