# Senior Android Engineer, Native Platform

**Company:** [Sekai](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sekai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Android Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kotlin, Android Sdk, Jetpack Compose, Android Architecture, React Native, Flutter, Webview, CI/CD, Gradle, Firebase Crashlytics
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Build and own the native Android foundation for a consumer AI-driven social platform, focusing on app architecture, hybrid integrations, and production quality. Requires 5+ years of Android experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose in a fast-paced startup.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and own Sekai’s native Android foundation using Kotlin, Android SDK, and modern Android architecture
- Design and improve the Android app shell, navigation, lifecycle handling, session management, permissions, push notifications, deeplinks, and release workflows
- Create clean integration points for product modules built in native Android, React Native, Flutter, or WebView
- Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile engineers to ship high-quality consumer mobile experiences
- Improve Android app reliability, responsiveness, maintainability, and production quality across real-world devices
- Build observability and debugging workflows for crashes, app health, release quality, and user-impacting issues
- Define engineering patterns for native modules, cross-stack communication, hybrid screen ownership, testing, CI/CD, and rollout
- Use modern AI development tools to move faster while maintaining strong engineering quality

## Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional Android engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Kotlin, Android SDK, and production Android app development
- Experience building or owning major parts of a consumer-facing Android app
- Strong understanding of Android architecture, app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, networking, persistence, dependency management, and modularization
- Experience building high-quality mobile UI using Jetpack Compose and/or the traditional Android View system
- Strong product sense and care for mobile user experience, polish, responsiveness, and reliability
- Ability to make independent architecture decisions and clearly explain technical tradeoffs
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive work end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable collaborating closely with Product, Design, Backend, Mobile, and Growth teams

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading or helping lead a team to build a mobile app from 0 to 1
- Experience working in a startup or high-growth consumer product environment
- Experience with React Native, including native modules, bridges, or hybrid mobile architecture
- Experience integrating Flutter or WebView-based modules into native Android apps
- Experience with Android performance profiling, startup optimization, memory management, UI responsiveness, crash reduction, or app health monitoring
- Experience with mobile observability and analytics tools such as Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Datadog, Amplitude, GA4, or similar tools
- Experience with feed-based, social, entertainment, creator, gaming, UGC, marketplace, or other high-engagement consumer products
- Experience with Gradle, CI/CD, staged rollouts, Play Console, app signing, and release automation
- Familiarity with iOS, TypeScript, React Native, Flutter, or web-based interactive content is a plus
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot

## Benefits
- Top-tier salary in the market + competitive equity
- Full health insurance
- Remote-first team

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