Staff Android SDK Engineer, Ad Rendering & Monetization

Unity Technologies SF•San Francisco, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Unity Technologies is hiring a Staff Android SDK Engineer focused on ad rendering and monetization in San Francisco, California. The role designs and evolves Android SDK architecture to support scalable, reliable ad delivery, and owns interactions between native Android components and hybrid rendering layers such as WebView and JavaScript bridges. It establishes lifecycle-safe and concurrency-safe patterns for integration into third-party host applications. The engineer improves rendering stability and load/show success rates across video, playable, end-card, and store-redirect flows under varied device and network conditions. The role also addresses performance bottlenecks in asset caching, creative delivery, WebView lifecycle management, threading, and timeout handling to reduce ANRs, crashes, and memory pressure. The engineer partners with Product and Data teams on SDK metrics and consistent ad experiences across direct demand, programmatic, and mediation environments, and serves as an Android SDK architecture expert in cross-platform system design decisions involving Android, iOS, WebView, and backend systems. This is a 40-hour-per-week position, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The stated annual salary is $221,187. The role may also be eligible for equity awards and company incentive plans. The final offer depends on factors including location, experience, background, and skills.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, plus four years of related work experience; alternatively, six years of related work experience. The employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
Four years of experience in Android development.
Four years of experience building and maintaining Android SDKs used by third-party applications.
Four years of experience with Android lifecycle management.
Four years of experience with concurrency, including Coroutines, Executors, and thread pools.
Four years of experience with memory management and performance profiling.
Four years of experience with ANR and crash root cause analysis.
Four years of experience designing modular, well-documented SDK APIs.
Four years of experience working with WebView or hybrid rendering architectures.
Four years of experience with Ads, Monetization, or Ad Tech platforms.
Four years of experience working with experimentation frameworks and telemetry systems.
Sufficient English knowledge for professional verbal and written communication with colleagues and partners worldwide.

Responsibilities

Design and evolve Android SDK architecture for scalable and reliable ad delivery.
Own interaction between native Android components and hybrid rendering layers, including WebView and JavaScript bridges.
Define lifecycle-safe and concurrency-safe patterns for integration into third-party host applications.
Improve rendering stability and ad load/show success rates across video, playable, end-card, and store-redirect flows in varied device and network conditions.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in asset caching, creative delivery, WebView lifecycle management, threading, and timeout handling to reduce ANRs, crashes, and memory pressure.
Partner with Product and Data teams to drive SDK metrics and deliver consistent ad experiences across direct demand, programmatic, and mediation environments.
Act as an Android SDK architecture expert in cross-platform system design decisions involving Android, iOS, WebView, and backend systems.
Coordinate across engineering, product, and data teams.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
Commute subsidy
Employee stock ownership
Competitive retirement/pension plans
Generous vacation and personal days
Leave and family-care programs supporting new parents
Office food snacks
Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
Employee Resource Groups
Global Employee Assistance Program
Training and development programs
Volunteering and donation matching program
Potential eligibility for equity awards and company incentive plans, such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions