Staff Android Engineer
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- The Android team’s mission is to redefine how millions of users engage with their finances. We’re focused on delivering intuitive, scalable, and inclusive mobile experiences that empower our customers to build better financial futures. We collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend Engineering to ensure every interaction on Android reflects quality, performance, and care
- The Trading Products team creates the experiences that bring Robinhood’s trading ecosystem to life for customers every day. Team Experience is responsible for making those journeys feel fast, intuitive, and dependable—so customers can engage with sophisticated trading products through simple, well-crafted mobile experiences
- Define and drive the technical direction for Android experiences across high-impact product areas, building intuitive, elegant, and reliable mobile systems using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android APIs
- Lead complex, ambiguous initiatives end to end—from early product and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, experimentation, launch, and long-term evolution
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and Data Scientists to shape roadmaps, influence product decisions, and deliver solutions that create meaningful customer and business impact
- Establish and uphold engineering standards, architecture patterns, and development practices thatimprove quality, scalability, maintainability, and developer velocity across the team
- Act as a technical leader and multiplier by mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, unblocking critical decisions, and raising the overall bar for execution, craftsmanship, and collaboration
- Demonstrated track record of leading through ambiguity, driving architecture across multiple projects or surfaces, and mentoring senior engineers while elevating engineering standards beyond your immediate team
- Deep proficiency with Kotlin and/or Java, and strong expertise in Android SDK fundamentals and architecture patterns such as MVVM, with a track record of making sound architectural tradeoffs
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and align teams around technical and product direction
- Strong experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow or RxJava, and common Android libraries such as Retrofit and Room, with the ability to apply them at scale in complex production environments
- 8+ years of professional experience developing Android applications, including experience leading large-scale or technically complex mobile initiatives