Senior Mobile Software Engineer, DroneDeploy
Drone mapping & analytics platform
Open for applications
Drone mapping & analytics platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the power of interactive digital twins accessible and productive for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience delivering mobile applications, including meaningful contributions to a production app with a significant user base or high architectural complexity
- Strong command of Kotlin and modern Android practices
- Experience with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or other inter-hardware communication with Android
- Proficiency with Android Studio Profiler, Firebase Crashlytics, and/or monitoring and observability technologies that enable you to troubleshoot crashes, identify memory issues, and debug hardware connectivity problems across a diverse device ecosystem
- Proactive use of AI-assisted tools (i.e., coding agents, LLM harnesses) to accelerate your software development and deliver more value to customers more quickly
- Experience explaining complex technical trade-offs to non-technical teammates to drive project alignment
- Experience with or a demonstrated eagerness to learn our backend stack (Python, Tornado, MongoDB) to trace data from device to database
- Experience with ARCore, spatial computing, or 3D capture workflows on Android
- Familiarity with external camera hardware protocols, particularly Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Direct, or the Open Spherical Camera (OSC) standard
- Experience taking early-stage or proof-of-concept mobile work and turning it into a production-quality app with a coherent, debuggable, observable architecture
- Professional iOS experience, as this role may contribute to both our Android and iOS apps
What the job involves
- DroneDeploy is transforming how industries see the world
- As part of the Ground Mobile team, you’ll build the innovative 3D scanning tools that turn smartphones and 360° cameras into professional-grade mapping devices
- Our mission is simple: create the most reliable, user-centric capture tech on the planet
- From pre-construction to long-term operations, your code will empower customers to capture reality with a single tap
- In this role, you will create the most reliable, user-centric capture experience on Android
- You will take learnings from our existing iOS app and Android proofs of concept and turn them into a production-grade Android app
- Pairing your Android knowledge with the team’s domain expertise, you will help define the architectural foundation and drive the product forward with the same level of craft and reliability we’ve built on iOS
- We champion diversity and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't meet every listed qualification
- Share with us your distinctive strengths; we're keen to understand the unique perspectives you bring to the table
- Define the technical foundation and architecture for the Ground Mobile Android app, in partnership with your teammates. The decisions you make will shape the codebase for years to come
- Build resilient Kotlin client-side logic with offline-first principles. Real-world constraints include: low-connectivity job sites, large capture sets, and intermittent hardware signals
- Collaborate with product and design to help translate customer frustrations into elegant technical solutions
- Write the code that talks to 360-degree cameras and high-accuracy GPS. You’ll handle the "messy" reality of hardware integration on Android’s diverse device ecosystem
- Establish Android CI/CD, testing standards, and release tooling from scratch, working cross-platform to bring wins to our iOS app when it makes sense
- Use ARCore and AI to prototype new ways to see the world. We value the "failed" experiment that teaches us something new
- Elevate team output through reviews and hackathons, leveraging empathetic feedback and new AI-assisted tools to help your peers ship better code, faster
- Participate in occasional onsite visits (1–2 trips per year) to experience field workflows directly and build customer empathy
Our take
Drone Deploy, headquartered in San Francisco, is a cloud-based platform specializing in drone mapping and analytics. With a mission to revolutionize how businesses acquire, manage, and interpret reality capture data from drones, 360-degree cameras, and mobile ground robots.
The company is dedicated to staying at the forefront of innovation within the drone industry, and it consistently seeks out opportunities to broaden the horizons of its capabilities. The company's strategic acquisitions, such as Rocos and StructionSite, are pivotal in achieving this goal.
With substantial investments, Drone Deploy is well-positioned for further expansion, and has aims to diversify beyond the drone sector and intensify its efforts to build a strong to presence in Europe. In 2025, the company announced it had reached break-even, which bodes very well for its future operations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$15m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $157.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Workplace - We believe that people do best when they're happy at work. Whether you’re happiest working from home or want to join us in the office, it’s OK with us
- Great Benefits - It's important to support physical and mental well-being, so we offer the kind of benefits that help meet employee needs and those of their dependents
- Growth and Development - We're in a dynamic and innovative industry and we’re committed to investing in our employees to ensure they're growing, creating, and breaking new ground in their careers
- Work/Life Balance - Time away from work is important to recharge your batteries and enjoy life. We provide flexible hours and paid time off, and work with employees to support their priorities
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jono Millin
(Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder)Previously founded AdvertEyes, Zoomatelo, Infatics.
Michael Winn
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously served as the Tech Lead of Big Data & Tools and Large Customer Sales for Google. Also co-founded Zoomatelo.
Nicholas Pilkington
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded Luno. Experience as a Software Engineer for Toshibi and NVIDIA.
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