Base Salary
$114k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of complex Android applications and shared mobile platform components, including SDKs, libraries, and tooling.
- Define and drive Android architecture standards using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, MVVM/MVI, and modularization.
- Own large, ambiguous initiatives through architecture, coding, testing, CI/CD, release management, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, startup time, ANRs, and crash-free sessions.
- Partner with backend teams on mobile APIs and offline-first solutions.
- Lead Lingo’s migration from React Native to native Android, including migration strategy, sequencing, native replacement patterns, bridging, and feature stability.
- Champion automated testing, code quality, secure mobile development, observability, and performance monitoring.
- Integrate on-device and cloud-powered AI/ML capabilities into Android applications.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, and influence technical decisions across mobile, backend, and product teams.
- Translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8–10 years of software engineering experience with strong Android development expertise.
- Deep proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android frameworks, with Jetpack Compose preferred.
- Working knowledge of React Native sufficient to assess existing code, plan a native migration, and bridge React Native with native modules.
- Strong experience with mobile architecture patterns, modularization, and large-scale application development.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Gradle optimization, and mobile observability tools.
- Understanding of API design, performance tuning, and secure mobile development.
- Proven technical leadership and cross-team influence.
- Ability to collaborate across a globally distributed engineering team spanning the US, Spain, and India.
- Preferred experience leading or contributing to a React Native-to-native migration in a production consumer application.
- Preferred experience in consumer health, digital health, or regulated industries.
- Preferred experience with GraphQL, AI/ML integration, Bluetooth Low Energy, wearable or connected-health device SDKs, and shared Android platform components.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Alameda, California.
- Career development opportunities with an international company.
- Potential qualification for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU education benefit.
- Health and wellness benefits and other family-support programs.
- Equal opportunity employer with recognition for workplace diversity and inclusion.
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About Abbott
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