Mercor

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Mercor
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Base Salary

$130k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and development of Mercor’s native Android application.
  • Design, build, and ship Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
  • Own major product initiatives from technical strategy and architecture through production launch.
  • Define Android engineering standards, architecture patterns, testing strategy, and release quality.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, AI, Backend, and Infrastructure teams on customer-facing experiences.
  • Use modern AI development tools to accelerate engineering while maintaining a high quality bar.
  • Optimize application performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers and help establish a strong mobile engineering culture.
  • Shape the long-term mobile strategy for Expert Experience Engineering.

Requirements

  • At least five years of professional Android software engineering experience.
  • Strong expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
  • Experience shipping and maintaining production Android applications through the Google Play Store.
  • Strong understanding of modern Android architecture, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.
  • Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical direction across projects.
  • Fluency with modern AI software development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or ChatGPT.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and product judgment.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team.
  • High ownership, strong communication skills, and a bias toward shipping.

Benefits

  • In-person work five days per week in San Francisco, New York City, or London offices
  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over four years
  • Up to $15,000 relocation bonus
  • $10,000 housing bonus for living within 0.5 miles of the office
  • $1,500 monthly meal stipend
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance

Tech Stack

Jetpack ComposeKotlin

Categories

Mobile
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About Mercor

201-500 employees

We find the best experts in every professional domain and put their knowledge to work training frontier models. Through APEX, we measure whether those models can actually perform economically valuable work. We're also bringing that expertise to enterprises: deploying custom AI agents, staffing teams with vetted domain experts, and helping organizations encode their own knowledge into AI systems.

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