Staff Android Engineer

Summary

Join Wellth, a fast-growing digital health startup, and use your engineering expertise to improve the lives of individuals with chronic conditions. You will architect and lead the development of a native Android app, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver engaging user experiences. Responsibilities include setting the company's mobile strategy, mentoring Android engineers, and building a scalable, high-performance app. You will ensure high code quality, protect user privacy, and work closely with various teams to meet user needs and business goals. The ideal candidate possesses extensive Android development experience, strong leadership skills, and a collaborative mindset. Wellth offers a supportive team environment and a range of benefits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience building native Android applications with Kotlin and/or Java
• Proven track record of leading complex Android app development, especially in building apps from the ground up
• Deep expertise in Android frameworks such as Jetpack, Compose, ViewModel, LiveData, and Room, with deep expertise in design patterns and best practices
• Strong skills in state management, offline storage, threading, and performance optimization
• Solid experience with functional reactive programming (RxJava, Coroutines)
• Experience designing and integrating with APIs and backend services
• Strong debugging skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests, snapshot tests, integration tests
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and comfortable with ambiguity
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, proactively unblocking yourself and finding solutions to move projects forward, even when dependencies are involved
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Be an owner of large vertical and horizontal app concerns from inception, to launch, to post-launch operations
• Be a strong communicator with engineers, other cross-functional roles, and leadership. Written or verbal, your communications are timely, concise, and clear
• Pragmatic, balancing quality, speed, cost, and theory. Operate with autonomy Influence without authority
• Teach, coach, and mentor other engineers, being a force multiplier for the team
• Compliment the work culture that supports team members, encourages curiosity and learning, and takes advantage of opportunities to improve systems and processes

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the development of a native Android app, collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to define its technical roadmap and deliver personalized, engaging user experiences
• Partner with engineering leadership to set the company-wide mobile strategy
• Lead and mentor Android engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture
• Build a scalable, performant app with robust offline capabilities, optimized for users across diverse devices and environments
• Drive and uphold high standards for code quality and testing, implementing strategies to maintain a high-quality bar to achieve a delightful app experience, allowing us to maintain or exceed our 4.9+ star rating in the Google Play Store
• Be a leader who has strong opinions, loosely held, with an ego-less, highly-collaborative, servant-leadership mentality
• Protect privacy by following secure SDLC guidelines to maintain our HITRUST certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Successfully delivered full app rewrites for Android applications
• Proficient working in an agile scrum development lifecycle
• Extensive experience in interfacing with, debugging, and sometimes building GraphQL APIs
• Extensive experience with various state management libraries such as Room, Realm, SQLite
• Extensive experience with application monitoring and testing tools such as Bugsnag, Datadog, and Appium
• Familiarity with data analysis tools, such as Mixpanel and Freshpaint
• Experience building React Native and iOS applications
• Experience with on-device object detection vision models
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD automation tools
• Deep knowledge of mobile app security to protect highly confidential and sensitive data
• Experience working with healthcare products and data

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements, supporting strong remote-first practices and tools with the option to work in our excellent gathering space in Marina Del Rey
• Robust paid time off and generous parental leave program
• Competitive salary & commission structure
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and FSA/HSA plans
• Ability to have a positive impact on people who need it most
• Support of a highly dedicated team focused on building the future of healthcare