Android Developer

Role: Software Engineer - Android

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid, 3 days onsite/week)

Duration: Contract

Role:

• Own the architecture of Android applications, including application framework design, modularization strategy, architectural patterns, engineering standards, and long-term technical roadmap.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable, high-performance Android experiences using modern Android technologies and industry best practices.
• Lead initiatives end-to-end from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, release, observability, and production support.
• Partner with API platform and backend engineering teams to design scalable, maintainable API contracts that support exceptional mobile experiences.
• Contribute to solution architecture across mobile applications, enterprise applications, APIs, distributed systems, and data platforms.
• Design and review solutions involving microservices, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, messaging systems, cloud-native applications, and enterprise integrations.
• Drive architectural consistency by establishing standards for integration patterns, resiliency, observability, security, and scalability.
• Champion modern software engineering practices including API-first development, domain-driven design, cloud-native architectures, and platform engineering principles.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and code reviews to ensure solutions meet quality, security, performance, and maintainability standards.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, observability, logging, distributed tracing, release health tracking, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Improve engineering productivity through automation, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, developer tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Partner with Principal Architects to guide strategic initiatives, evaluate technology choices, and influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.

All About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of professional Android development.
• Expert-level knowledge of:
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Android Architecture Components
• MVVM/MVI and Clean Architecture
• Multi-module application architectures
• Coroutines and Flow
• Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
• Work Manager and background processing
• Mobile performance optimization
• Application security and secure storage
• Google Play release management and rollout strategies
• Demonstrated experience designing and evolving enterprise-scale Android architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and distributed systems, including:
• Microservices architecture
• API-first development
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• Event-driven architecture
• Message-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent)
• Domain-driven design
• Cloud-native application patterns
• Scalability and resiliency design
• Proven experience designing and documenting technical solutions, architecture diagrams, and engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of backend application architecture and API platforms, including Java/Kotlin-based services and modern web application architectures.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, and enterprise security practices.
• Experience implementing observability practices including metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, performance monitoring, and production diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, and release governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions with engineers, architects, product managers, and senior leadership.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to think beyond mobile development and contribute to end-to-end solution architecture across applications, APIs, services, and enterprise platforms.