Senior Software Engineer, Android — AI-Native Client Platform

NewsBreak•Mountain View, CA

3d•$118,000 - $212,000•Onsite

About The Position

NewsBreak is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to join their AI-Native Client Platform team. This role involves rebuilding how mobile software is shipped, with a focus on AI-assisted development. Engineers will design architecture, conventions, and guardrails for building safely across the flagship app and new products. The role has a dual mandate: approximately half the time will be spent advancing the platform and the other half shipping business impact, with the goal of reducing the cost of the latter through platform improvements. NewsBreak is a fast-growing company recognized for innovation and a positive work environment. They are committed to building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence and are looking for passionate individuals to join their mission.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building Android apps at scale.
Deep expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
Proven experience owning app-level architecture and understanding its consequences.
Ability to verify code, including AI-generated code, before shipping.

Nice To Haves

Cross-platform experience (Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native).
Experience with developer tooling or CI quality gates that measurably improved team speed.

Responsibilities

Architect Android systems for the flagship app and new products, ensuring code legibility for both engineers and AI agents.
Drive modularization efforts to extract and share capabilities across apps.
Ship user-facing features end-to-end (growth, feed, new-app product needs) using an AI-assisted workflow and contribute to its improvement.
Set the quality bar for AI-assisted development, including review standards, safety nets, and release gates.
Solve complex performance and production issues, and document learnings into playbooks for team-wide adoption.