Staff Android Engineer
AlphaSense3 months ago
Remote, EMEA or London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Android platform foundation, including architecture, modular boundaries, and native engineering patterns.
- Lead hands-on Android system design and translate complex product and platform problems into durable production architecture.
- Improve Android reliability and delivery confidence through automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI-enabled validation.
- Partner with iOS, backend, product, and design to define mobile-facing system contracts, API behavior, ownership boundaries, and platform expectations.
- Raise mobile-system judgment across teams by creating reusable standards and technical patterns for native experiences.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in modern production Android architecture and experience setting technical standards for a platform, product area, or native mobile domain.
- Deep Android expertise with sufficient iOS fluency to shape cross-functional architecture decisions involving backend, web, product, identity, reliability, release quality, and observability.
- Experience shaping mobile-facing platform contracts, API behavior, or backend service boundaries for native client experiences.
- Ability to read, debug, and make targeted contributions to backend systems when needed.
- Experience shaping AI-enabled engineering systems that improve Android and broader mobile validation, product quality, and delivery confidence.
- Strong reliability and release-quality judgment across production mobile systems, with experience raising quality standards for a platform or product area.
- Track record of improving engineers’ effectiveness through clear standards, reusable patterns, and stronger technical judgment.
- Excellent product judgment and communication skills, including connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and aligning teams around durable decisions.
- Preferred: experience building Android experiences for foldables, wearables, Android Auto, or other platform-native surfaces.
- Preferred: experience with enterprise mobile environments involving identity, device management, compliance, security, or MDM/EMM.
- Preferred: experience shaping mobile design-system foundations and design-to-code workflows for consistency, accessibility, development velocity, and AI-assisted UI generation.
Tech Stack
iOS
Categories
Mobile
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.