Hybrid Senior Android Mobile Software Developer

Rocket Companies•Detroit, MI

1d•$166,900 - $203,900•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is a hybrid opportunity for candidates to work in office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from our Seattle, San Francisco, or Detroit offices and work remotely all other days. We can consider highly qualified candidates on a remote only basis who reside outside of these three areas. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team! Redfin is continually improving and expanding our app to include new features, and options for our customers. As a Sr. Android Mobile Software Engineer, you'll join a passionate team working to enable Redfin's app developers to build and ship the top-rated real estate apps. We support the infrastructure to ensure our app is fast and stable. We also build the core frameworks, mobile design system, and tooling to support building features for our customers that allow them to interact with the home buying experience while on the move. You will design and implement complex, technical projects that enable Redfin's app developers to build and ship the top-rated real estate apps. Contribute to the long-term strategy of the Android platform, considering technical and product-level concerns. Collaborate with your teammates by reviewing code, writing documentation, refining best practices, and building maintainable and testable codebases. Work closely with our product and design teams to understand user and business needs. Drive the team forward in Android best practices and design principles, bringing in cutting-edge industry trends. Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code. This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.

Requirements

5+ years of development experience with at least 3 years of Native Android experience.
Practical experience building Android applications in Kotlin and Java, and a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
Effective communication: you can collaborate across distances and experience levels, and you can disagree constructively with respect for everyone’s opinions and ideas.
A passion for well-architected, clean, well-written code.
Curiosity about mobile CI/CD and cloud development technologies, such as Bitrise and Jenkins.
Deep knowledge of at least one AI code generation tool, such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.

Nice To Haves

Obsess over improving the user experience, whether it's collaborating with product managers and designers to build beautiful products or finding and squashing performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

Design and implement complex, technical projects that enable Redfin's app developers to build and ship the top-rated real estate apps.
Contribute to the long-term strategy of the Android platform, considering technical and product-level concerns.
Collaborate with your teammates by reviewing code, writing documentation, refining best practices, and building maintainable and testable codebases.
Work closely with our product and design teams to understand user and business needs.
Drive the team forward in Android best practices and design principles, bringing in cutting-edge industry trends.
Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code.
Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability.