Senior Android Engineer

What You’ll Work On:
Build exceptional Android experiences: Design, build, and scale Perchwell’s Android app serving real estate professionals, delivering fast, stable, and intuitive mobile experiences that empower users to search, collaborate, and close deals from anywhere.

Lead meaningful initiatives: Lead Android initiatives from technical design through launch, driving execution and ensuring quality while partnering with senior engineers and leadership on overall direction.

Enhance product sales: Our mobile experience is a competitive differentiator for new clients and a delightful extension of the Perchwell platform.

Contribute to Android architecture: Help shape the structure and setup of our codebase, advising on decisions to ensure it is scalable, maintainable, and testable to support faster feature development and customer satisfaction.

Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with backend, product, design, and QA to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences.

Required for this Role
4-6 years of professional Android development experience, with a strong command of Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem (Jetpack, Compose, Coroutines, dependency injection, etc).

Proven track record owning and delivering features from design through release, with a growing scope of impact across the codebase.

Solid understanding of mobile reliability and scalability, with experience identifying and resolving recurring issues.

Experience contributing to technical direction - helping define standards, participating in architectural decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Strong customer empathy - the ability to translate complex user needs into technical solutions that address both immediate problems and long-term product health.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present technical tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.

Strong collaboration with backend and product partners, translating business needs into technical execution.

Love ownership, iteration, and making things better every release.

This role is open to remote, but those located in the NYC area will work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week (including Mondays, which are mandatory in-office days).

Preferred Qualifications
Modular Android architecture - Experience designing and implementing feature modules, shared library modules, and dependency management strategies to support clean separation of concerns and fast build times.

Familiarity with backend systems and APIs, particularly in the context of designing robust and functional client-server contracts for mobile applications.

Continuous integration - Familiar with common tools and techniques for structuring and organizing mobile builds and automated testing tracks to improve quality and reduce developer cycle time.

Strong Benefits Package
Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays

401K with a company match

Medical, dental, and vision plans

HSA and FSA options

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups

Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.

Skills Required
4-6 years of professional Android development experience
Strong command of Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem (Jetpack, Compose, Coroutines, dependency injection)
Proven track record owning and delivering features from design through release
Solid understanding of mobile reliability and scalability and resolving recurring issues
Experience contributing to technical direction and architectural decisions
Strong customer empathy and ability to translate user needs into technical solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong collaboration with backend and product partners
Ownership mindset, iterative improvement focus
Authorized to work in the U.S.
Modular Android architecture experience (feature modules, shared library modules)
Familiarity with backend systems and designing client-server APIs
Familiarity with continuous integration, mobile build and automated testing workflows