Senior Android Engineer - Remote Latam

Location: Remote - LATAM

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reports To: Engineering Lead

About the Company

A creator-powered social platform focused on helping creators, consumers, and customers connect, engage, and grow. The platform includes mobile and web experiences designed to support a growing community of creators and users. The company is in a high-iteration stage of product growth, with a strong focus on improving existing products, expanding capabilities, and building reliable, scalable experiences for a broader audience.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer — Android to help build reliable, accessible, and high-quality Android experiences that enable creators to publish, connect, and grow.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role combining feature development, production ownership, technical problem-solving, and engineering mentorship. You will have an opportunity to influence Android architecture and engineering practices while helping the team move quickly without compromising stability or maintainability.

What You’ll Do

• Android Development

• Own Android features from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and production monitoring.

• Build intuitive and accessible mobile interfaces for creators and users.

• Develop resilient integrations across APIs, authentication, caching, and background processing.

• Contribute to Android architecture and technical decisions that improve scalability and maintainability.

• Production & Reliability

• Diagnose and resolve crashes, performance issues, memory problems, device-specific behavior, and network-related issues.

• Monitor production performance and proactively identify areas for improvement.

• Improve application stability, release quality, and overall user experience.

• Participate in a defined production-support rotation and take ownership of issues through resolution.

• Engineering Excellence

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.

• Strengthen automated test coverage for critical Android user journeys.

• Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful technical feedback.

• Mentor other engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Help identify and reduce recurring defects and development bottlenecks.

• AI-Assisted Development

• We value engineers who are effective working both with and without agentic/generative AI coding tools.

• Independently design, write, debug, test, and maintain production-quality software.

• Use coding assistants and AI agents effectively to accelerate development and problem-solving.

• Carefully review and validate AI-generated code through testing and engineering judgment.

• Remain fully accountable for the correctness, security, performance, and maintainability of AI-assisted work.

• Follow appropriate practices for protecting proprietary code and sensitive information when using AI tools.

• What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial native Android development experience.

• Strong experience with Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack, Android lifecycle, concurrency, and API integration.

• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production Android applications.

• Strong automated testing experience.

• Experience troubleshooting mobile applications across different devices, networks, and performance conditions.

• Understanding of mobile security, accessibility, CI/CD, and application release processes.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with Product, Design, QA, backend, and iOS teams.

• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical guidance.

• Experience working on media, creator, social, community, or social-feed products is a plus.

• Your First 90 Days

• Days 1–30

• Become familiar with the Android architecture, codebase, development practices, and release process.

• Understand key user journeys and identify stability, performance, and technical risks.

• Establish baseline metrics for application reliability and performance.

• Days 31–60

• Ship a well-tested feature or priority production improvement.

• Implement appropriate monitoring and ensure production performance is tracked.

• Contribute to code quality, testing, and architecture improvements.

• Days 61–90

• Deliver measurable improvement to a key reliability, performance, or development bottleneck.

• Help reduce recurring defects or improve release predictability.

• Establish a technical improvement plan with the engineering team.

• 12–18 Month Outcomes

• Consistently delivering roadmap features against agreed requirements and timelines.

• Improving crash-free usage and key application performance metrics.

• Strengthening automated coverage of critical Android user journeys.

• Reducing recurring defects and improving release predictability.

• Contributing to a more scalable, maintainable Android architecture.

• Helping establish stronger engineering practices across the mobile development team.

• Reporting & Collaboration

• This is a Senior Individual Contributor position reporting to the Engineering Lead.

You will work closely with:

• Android and iOS Engineering

• Backend Engineering

• QA

• Product

• Design

• You will also contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, production support, and engineering standards across the organization.

• Why Join?

• This is an opportunity to own meaningful Android experiences for a growing creator-powered social platform while helping shape the technical standards, architecture, and engineering practices that support its next stage of growth.

• You’ll have meaningful ownership over production software, the opportunity to work with modern AI-assisted development practices, and the ability to make a direct impact on how creators and users experience the platform.

• Join Us and Enjoy These Perks!

• Competitive

Salary

Earn a USD salary that matches your skills and experience.

Paid Time Off: Generous PTO to support your work-life balance and recharge.

Health Insurance Subsidy: Financial assistance to support your healthcare coverage.

Annual

Salary

Reviews: Structured annual evaluations to recognize and reward performance.

Paid Training & Certifications: Continuous support for professional growth and upskilling.

Ready to put your puzzle-solving skills to the test? Join our team today!

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