Staff Software Engineer, ZenBusiness

• Proven Staff/Lead impact owning Android architecture and multi-team delivery for complex consumer apps
• Deep fluency in modern Android development: Kotlin, Compose (+navigation), Coroutines & Flow, MVVM with unidirectional data flow, DI with Hilt/Dagger, multi-module clean architecture
• Testing depth across unit, integration, and UI (JUnit, MockK, Turbine, Compose UI/Espresso)
• Operational excellence experience: instrumentation/observability (e.g., Sentry, logs/metrics), reliability ownership, and security best practices
• Experience collaborating on backend-for-frontend (BFF) design and consumption for mobile
• Strong GraphQL experience on Android (we use Apollo Kotlin); exposure to Fastify + Mercurius for BFF development is a plus
• Hands-on Android CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Gradle, and Google Play multi-track releases
• Excellent written and verbal communication; adept at async collaboration across distributed teams
• Experience with the latest AI-assisted software development tools and responsible usage
• Bias for ownership and pragmatic delivery; comfortable with ambiguity and accountable to measurable outcomes

Desirable

• We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Android for our Native Mobile team
• In this role, you’ll take ownership of our Android app across all phases of product development
• You’ll lead the delivery of Android architecture and roadmap, setting and enforcing engineering standards
• You’ll partner closely with iOS, Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship high-quality mobile experiences that align with our vision
• This role is ideal for an IC leader who combines high autonomy with cross‑team influence—mentors others, leads design reviews, communicates clearly, and embodies a sense of ownership
• Own Android technical strategy & delivery: architecture, modularization, and a release every two weeks
• Collaborate with product and design teams to define requirements, scope, acceptance criteria, and execute on the delivery of new features and improvements
• Evolve the dev environment to keep up with modern tools, libraries, and platform releases, and maintain build and CI/CD health
• Partner cross-platform to ensure parity and consistency between Android and iOS in both experience and patterns/conventions. Occasionally contribute to iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) as needed (up to ~5-10%)
• Shape GraphQL integrations: collaborate on schema design, implement shared GraphQL libraries (schema + resolvers), and integration into the Android app
• Raise the quality bar by setting and enforcing Android development standards for code quality/patterns, performance, and security
• Mentor and influence engineers by leading knowledge-sharing efforts, running design/code reviews, and driving cross-team initiatives
• Our Android Stack:
• 100% Kotlin - 100% Jetpack Compose, single activity, multi-module
• Clean Architecture (UI / Domain / Data), MVVM with unidirectional data flow
• Dagger/Hilt for DI
• Coroutines & Flow
• Apollo Kotlin (client GraphQL) with a Fastify + Mercurius BFF
• Gradle (Kotlin DSL), custom in-house Gradle plugins, GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Testing: JUnit, MockK, Turbine, Compose UI Testing / Espresso