Android Engineer

Fetch

24d • Remote

About The Position

At Fetch, engineering is grounded in ownership, agility, and purposeful innovation. Our engineers thrive in complexity, navigating ambiguity with curiosity, data, and critical thinking. We foster a culture where high technical standards, practical decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration drive tangible impact. You’ll join a team of builders who empower one another to push boundaries and grow continuously. While Fetch may not be the ideal environment for everyone, it’s a rewarding place for those energized by challenging systems, evolving products, and solving problems that matter at scale.

About the Role
Fetch Play is part of Fetch’s rewards network (RN), focused on driving user engagement through interactive, game-based experiences that make earning rewards fun, intuitive, and repeatable. Fetch Play connects users with rewarding gameplay moments that deepen long-term retention and value.

We are looking for an Android Software Engineer to help build and maintain a world-class mobile experience for Fetch Play. In this role, you will work directly with our backend services and external partners to deliver high-quality, engaging gameplay and rewards features. You’ll collaborate on a small, cross-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist, and other roles. Success in this role requires the ability to tackle complex technical challenges and design and develop polished, user-centric solutions that delight our users.

You’ll be part of a cutting-edge Android team operating on a modern, 150+ module architecture built with the latest Android best practices. Our stack includes Kotlin 2.X, 95% Jetpack Compose UI, MVVM with Hilt for dependency injection, and tooling like Gradle convention plugins, KSP, and Room.

This is a full-time role available remotely in the United States or from one of our Fetch offices.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and releasing Android applications.
• Strong command of Android fundamentals and modern tools/libraries (Kotlin, Jetpack, Coroutines, Compose).
• Demonstrated experience with unit testing and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Espresso, Compose Testing), with a focus on delivering reliable, maintainable code.
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Hilt, Dagger, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Room or equivalent local persistence solutions.
• Exposure to and ability to contribute to architecture, modularization, and component design in a large codebase.
• Demonstrated success working within cross-functional teams to ship impactful, user-focused features.
• Strong skills in debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Effective communicator with experience aligning technical work with product goals.
• A collaborative mindset; experience working with team-based development is essential.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, proposing paths forward, and driving toward outcomes.
• An AI-forward mentality to explore and apply the latest tools that improve engineering efficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in large, multi-module codebases with scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with build tooling (Gradle convention plugins, KSP) or contributing to CI/CD pipelines (Bitrise or similar).
• Background building mobile features in rewards, e-commerce, or marketing attribution domains.
• Familiarity with geospatial or mapping functionality in mobile apps.
• Generalist engineering experience, including backend or cross-platform development.
• Engagement in open-source ecosystems or collaborative development communities.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Android features that support Fetch Play gameplay and rewards, collaborating with backend teams and partners to create high-quality user experiences.
• Integrate with partner APIs and marketing tech systems, ensuring rewards attribution is accurate and reliable.
• Optimize shoppability flows for performance and ease of use, reducing friction from product discovery through to purchase planning.
• Collaborate with product and design to ensure users can quickly find and activate offers most relevant to them.
• Monitor and improve engagement metrics, helping the team track how features drive user adoption and rewards redemption.
• Work across backend, data, and marketing tech teams to bring new partner integrations and e-commerce capabilities into the app.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed