Staff Android Engineer (Founding)

Grow Therapy•San Francisco, CA

5d•$217,000 - $289,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Grow Therapy is seeking a founding Staff Android Engineer to build its native Android application from the ground up. This role involves end-to-end ownership, setting the technical direction, architecture, and developer experience for Android at Grow. The engineer will ship consumer-facing features, establish coding standards, and manage the path to production, including CI/CD and release management. This is a hands-on role in an AI-forward engineering organization, requiring deliberate architectural decisions and the ability to set standards for a growing team. The position reports to the Director of Engineering for the Momentum pillar and collaborates with product, design, and iOS/backend teams.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience, the majority in native Android development with Kotlin, spanning both platform/architecture work and consumer-facing feature development.
Experience leading the technical direction for an Android app or platform from an early or 0-to-1 stage, or through a major re-architecture: choosing the architecture, standing up the tooling, shipping to production, and comfortable making those calls with incomplete information and no established playbook.
Production depth in modern Android: Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines and Flow, dependency injection, modularization, and Gradle build tooling, and a considered testing strategy.
Strong product instincts and a genuine ability to partner with product and design, connecting technical decisions to what users actually experience.
Experience using AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of how you build, and have grounded opinions on where they help and where they don't.

Nice To Haves

A personal connection to mental health care or a strong pull toward Grow's mission.
A considered view on Kotlin Multiplatform and shared-code strategies, grounded in something you've shipped or evaluated.
Experience building mobile apps in a regulated or healthcare setting, with real attention to sensitive data and accessibility.
Experience helping uplevel an Android team around you through hiring, mentoring, and standards others adopted.

Responsibilities

Design the architecture and technical foundations for Grow's native Android app, from project structure and state management through build, testing, and release infrastructure.
Ship consumer-facing features on that foundation, building the experiences that help clients discover care, connect with providers, and manage their care journey between sessions.
Set coding standards, tooling, and engineering practices for Android, and evolve them as the team grows around you.
Own the path to production: CI/CD, Google Play release management, observability, and the quality and security practices a healthcare app requires.
Partner closely with product, design, and the iOS and backend teams to connect technical decisions to product goals, and product goals back to technical tradeoffs.
Drive cross-functional decisions and represent Android's roadmap and tradeoffs to stakeholders across the company, often without a precedent to point to.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
No cost access to therapy through the Grow platform (available to US employees)
Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities
Flexible time off, company paid holidays, and a full company wide Winter Break
Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave and a new child stipend.
Dedicated weekly flexible time for self care (Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons).
Annual stipend to support personal wellbeing and professional growth (Wellness & Development Stipend).
Pre tax commuter benefits
Support for home workspace plus meal benefits
A variety of wellbeing benefits, including wellness memberships, virtual care, pet insurance discounts (where available), and global travel assistance.