Senior Android Software Engineer, Warby Parker
$153.1-175k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Prescription eyewear & sunglasses
Be an early applicant
Prescription eyewear & sunglasses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.1-175k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose, and style.
Role
Who you are
- Backed by 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building and shipping native Android applications
- Expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development
- Experience building UI with Jetpack Compose and Material3
- Strong experience with networking and data layers using OkHttp and Moshi
- Strong experience in domain modeling, system design, and scalable mobile architecture
- Comfortable working with distributed systems and collaborating closely with backend teams
- Experienced with modern Android architecture patterns (e.g., MVI/MVVM, modularization, dependency injection)
- A clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
- Someone with a strong belief in accountability who holds engineering teams to a high standard
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Able, willing, and excited to quickly learn new domains
- Insatiably curious and passionate about innovation
- Not on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
Desirable
- Experience with ARCore for augmented reality experiences
- Experience with OpenCV for computer vision capabilities
- Familiarity with Filament for real-time rendering
- Experience optimizing performance for high-volume, consumer-facing mobile applications
What the job involves
- Warby Parker is on the lookout for a Senior Android Engineer to help drive the evolution of our mission-critical mobile experiences
- In this role, you’ll take ownership of the development, architecture, testing strategy, and engineering standards of the Warby Parker native Android application
- You’ll help establish best practices across mobile development and contribute to building a best-in-class technology discipline
- Contribute to the evolution of our Android platform to ensure scalable, observable, performant, and reliable mobile systems
- Lead the design and delivery of complex Android features and platform improvements in partnership with Product, Design, Backend, and SRE teams
- Drive architectural decisions within your team, participating in design reviews for major initiatives such as migrations, modularization, and performance optimization
- Apply and advocate for modern Android best practices, including clean architecture, domain modeling, and maintainable code organization
- Own operational excellence for your areas, including crash monitoring, performance tracking, logging, and issue remediation
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration on challenging problems
Our take
They say every great idea starts with a problem, and for Warby Parker this was simple - glasses were just too expensive. Inspired by the need to have great-looking frames that didn’t break the bank, the co-founders set out to disrupt the legacy-dominated eyewear market.
Going up against existing big brands was no easy feat. However, by circumventing traditional manufacturing methods, using in-house design, and engaging with customers directly, Warby Parker was able to provide high-quality and good-looking prescription glasses at a fraction of the cost.
The company's retail category disruption has led to it being one of the most successful direct-to-consumer brands of the early 21st century. It managed a successful IPO in 2021, has raised considerable funds and mad a number of high-profile collaborations. Its latest partnership is with Google, which sees the company plan to develop and release a range of AI glasses.
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Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Aug 2020
$120m
SERIES G
Apr 2020
$125m
SERIES F
Total funding: $825m
Company benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid Holidays
- Retirement savings plan with a company match
- Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
- Short-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Bereavement Support
- Education Reimbursement
- Free eyewear
- And more (just ask!)
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Hunt
(Director & Co-Founder)Started out as an Investment Banker at Cain Brothers. Has extensive experience in VC, having worked at firms such as Highland Capital Partners and SV Life Sciences. Also founded the marketing company Elephant.
Neil Blumenthal
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Has an MBA from the Wharton School. Is a Member of the Board of Directors at sweetgreen and Allbirds.
Dave Gilboa
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Was an Associate at Allen & Company and worked as Special Assistant to the CEO of The TriZetto Group.
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