Staff Android Engineer: Lead Native Platform & AI-Powered

Abbott Laboratories; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories in Alameda, CA is seeking a Staff Mobile Engineer, Android to lead design and development of complex Android apps and shared platform components. You will set architectural direction and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include migrating from React Native to native Android, building scalable APIs with backend partners, and driving CI/CD, observability, and performance improvements across the mobile stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 8–10 years of Android software engineering experience.
• Deep proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android frameworks, with Jetpack Compose preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex Android applications and shared mobile platform components (SDKs, libraries, tooling).
• Define and drive modern Android architecture standards (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, MVVM/MVI).
• Own large initiatives from concept to production, establishing long-term Android strategy including modularization, CI/CD, build optimization, observability.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Jetpack Compose

React Native

CI/CD

Gradle

API design

Observability

AI/ML

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Gradle

GraphQL

Job description

Abbott Laboratories in Alameda, CA is seeking a Staff Mobile Engineer, Android to lead design and development of complex Android apps and shared platform components. You will set architectural direction and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include migrating from React Native to native Android, building scalable APIs with backend partners, and driving CI/CD, observability, and performance improvements across the mobile stack.