Senior Android Engineer

Peraton•Aurora, CO

2d•$86,000 - $138,000

About The Position

The Senior Android Engineer will design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. The role owns consequential technical decisions and partners with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers to ship reliable customer value. It is an Android-first position that also requires practical iOS experience to evaluate platform tradeoffs, review shared mobile patterns, and make occasional targeted Swift or SwiftUI contributions when useful. The engineer owns complex Android features from discovery through post-release monitoring; sets technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management; and develops clear technical designs that surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans. The role also emphasizes accessible and responsive interfaces, automated testing, observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, release confidence, and collaboration on API contracts and shared mobile standards. The position is available in Falls Church, Virginia; Aurora, Colorado; San Antonio, Texas; or Tacoma, Washington. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance. The stated target salary range is $86,000–$138,000, with salary determined by factors including responsibilities, experience, education, skills, location, and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience with a BS/BA, or 9 years of experience with a high school diploma.
5 or more years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production Android applications; equivalent depth of experience is welcome.
Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.
Production experience with Jetpack Compose, including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views.
Demonstrated ability to make sound architecture decisions and safely evolve a mature codebase.
Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.
Strong testing and debugging habits, including using crash, performance, and product telemetry to guide decisions.
Experience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues.
Clear written and verbal communication with engineering and non-engineering partners.
A record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence and example.
U.S. citizenship.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Practical iOS experience sufficient to collaborate across mobile platforms, including hands-on experience reading and making scoped changes in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or UIKit.
Familiarity with Xcode, the iOS app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, testing, code signing, and App Store release workflows.
Ability to compare Android and iOS implementation tradeoffs without forcing identical architecture or user-interface patterns.
Experience contributing to shared mobile conventions, API contracts, design systems, analytics taxonomies, or cross-platform feature parity.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a consumer, subscription, healthcare, fintech, marketplace, or other reliability-sensitive mobile product.
Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform or another selective code-sharing approach, with pragmatic judgment about where sharing helps.
Experience with mobile CI/CD, build performance, feature flags, experimentation, and automated release tooling.
Familiarity with mobile security, privacy, accessibility standards, and threat modeling.
Experience leading migrations such as Views to Compose, monolith to modules, or legacy asynchronous code to coroutines.

Responsibilities

Own the design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.
Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.
Write technical designs that surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.
Build accessible, responsive interfaces in partnership with product design and research.
Improve automated unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end testing, making quality an everyday engineering practice.
Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.
Partner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.
Collaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards while respecting platform-native conventions.
Review code, mentor engineers, and improve the quality of technical decisions without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.