Staff Android Engineer, Connectivity

4 days ago

Boston, MA, USAStaff+

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and evolution of the Android connectivity layer, including BLE transport, history sync, and firmware delivery.
Define and refine communication protocols between WHOOP hardware and Android while maintaining alignment with iOS standards.
Use Android Bluetooth expertise to manage GATT operations, bonding, reconnection, OEM-specific behavior, power management, and permissions.
Build connectivity-health analysis systems and use member telemetry, metrics, and feedback to prioritize reliability and product improvements.
Manage technical-debt, code-health, and testability priorities while improving architecture, test coverage, and engineering quality.
Develop Android features and broader engineering patterns using Kotlin, mentor engineers, facilitate developer ramp-up, and influence cross-functional technical decisions.
Participate in incident commander rotation and manage the Android release process, including app builds, variants, signing, Firebase testing, and Play Store submission.
Represent Android Connectivity in bug triage, product syncs, firmware coordination, and other cross-functional forums.
Assist the backend team with data contracts and collaborate across hardware, firmware, mobile, software, and backend teams.

Extensive professional experience building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android applications, including consumer-facing apps controlling BLE devices.
Track record of influencing engineers beyond one’s own team through architectural and platform design principles.
Expert knowledge of Android application structure, components, lifecycle, Android Design Guidelines, concurrency, multithreading, Kotlin coroutines, and Flow.
Strong experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative Android UI.
Experience with Kotlin, Koin, Android Jetpack libraries including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation, Room, Retrofit, and OkHttp.
Experience designing modular architecture and dependency boundaries in large multi-module Gradle codebases, including MVI and MVVM patterns.
Excellent knowledge of Android Studio, Gradle, CI systems, and Git-based feature work.
Experience diagnosing complex or distributed systems involving firmware, mobile, and backend components.
Experience communicating with RESTful backends and writing automated unit and UI tests.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, including cross-functional problem solving, tradeoff definition, and optimization.
Commitment to using AI tools responsibly while maintaining the same quality standards as personal contributions.
Product-minded approach with empathy for the member experience and willingness to learn across Android and external systems.

U.S. base salary range of $170,000-$230,000, plus meaningful equity and benefits.
Full-time role based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office; relocation may be required.
Generous equity package and participation in the company’s long-term growth.

501-1,000 employees

Solving problems that sit at a unique intersection of hardware, tech, health, fitness and design.