GameChanger is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our App Platform team. In this role, you will empower teams to maintain mobile apps at scale. You will influence the engineering organization by guiding projects that improve developer experience and accelerate teams, with a focus on the Android platform.
What You'll Do
- Build foundational and scalable solutions for Android engineers that work on multiple, domain-specific teams.
- Create developer SDKs that modernize our tech stack; promote the use of our SDKs, and lead multi-team migrations.
- Monitor and improve the performance of our Android tooling, including local development tools and CI/CD systems.
- Understand App Platform's users by gathering data from internal tools, participating in the Android guild, and working directly with Android engineers from other teams.
- Help define the team's technical roadmaps.
- Contribute to the team's internal developer support on-call rotation.
What We're Looking For
- Deep technical understanding of the Android platform, including knowledge of the operating system, first-party API (performance, concurrency, state, UI), dependency management, build configurations and artifacts, compiler, and runtime.
- 4+ years experience with Android CI/CD systems and tooling (Gradle, GitHub Actions, Firebase App Distribution, and Google Play Console) with experience optimizing build pipelines for developer productivity.
- Take ownership of technical planning and production reliability; from designing solutions and anticipating risks, to responding to incidents independently and improving observability to prevent future issues.
- Lead cross-team projects, guide collaboration, mentor teammates, guarantee work aligns with goals, and address risks to long-term maintainability.
- Integrate multiple perspectives into technical decisions. Incorporate product, business, and operational considerations into your designs, while identifying risks and future scenarios that could affect system health.
- Communicate complex technical concepts in technical documentation, ad-hoc communications, and can present these concepts to larger audiences internally.
Technical Stack
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Realm, Flows/RxJava, Gradle, GitHub Actions, Firebase App Distribution, Google Play Console
Team & Environment
The App Platform team stewards architecture foundations, modularization, dependency management, and internal frameworks. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the App Platform Team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $160,000 to $180,000
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually.
- Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position open to candidates in the US.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
