Senior Staff Android Engineer
AlphaSense5 months ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own Android app architecture, modular boundaries, and native engineering patterns across devices and form factors.
- Lead hands-on system design using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, and modern Android architecture.
- Improve mobile testing, automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI-enabled validation for reliable releases.
- Align teams on API behavior, failure modes, authentication and session flows, performance, ownership boundaries, and mobile system contracts.
- Mentor mobile and adjacent technical teams while shaping engineering culture, system design standards, operational quality, and execution.
Requirements
- Deep production expertise in Android platform architecture, modular design, performance, security, reliability, Jetpack Compose, and modern Kotlin concurrency.
- Ability to reason across iOS constraints, backend APIs, authentication and session flows, release risks, device fragmentation, managed environments, and mobile service contracts.
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, AI harnesses, evaluation practices, or AI-driven testing systems.
- Experience with testing strategy, automation, observability, CI/CD, and production mobile quality practices.
- Track record of leading significant technical initiatives, setting engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and raising technical standards across teams.
- Strong product judgment and communication skills, including connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and aligning teams through RFCs, ADRs, technical plans, or decision records.
- Preferred experience with foldables, managed Android devices, varied device configurations, enterprise mobile applications, MDM/EMM, or regulated customer environments.
- Preferred experience building or adopting production mobile design systems.
- Preferred experience contributing to backend services or APIs using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python.
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.