Lead Android Engineer
Job Description:
- Set the technical direction for Future’s Android products
- Lead Android work across phone and Wear OS apps
- Build onboarding, coach messaging, scheduling, guided workouts, progress tracking, health-data integration, and video-call experiences
- Build accessible interfaces with Jetpack Compose and Future’s design system
- Improve architecture, module boundaries, data ownership, navigation, and offline behavior in a modular Kotlin codebase
- Guide integrations with Wear OS, Health Connect, heart-rate data, sensors, and the Android device lifecycle
- Own app startup, responsiveness, media playback, foreground services, background work, real-time calls, and data synchronization
- Use crash, performance, release, and telemetry data to identify problems
- Set expectations for code quality, testing, observability, and maintainability
- Improve Gradle builds, GitHub Actions, Fastlane automation, and Google Play delivery
- Lead technical planning, project execution, design discussions, pairing, and code reviews
- Use AI coding tools to support exploration, implementation, testing, and review
- Partner with product, design, backend, and iOS engineers on a small senior team
- Guide and support other engineers
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional Android engineering experience, including ownership of complex consumer applications
- Deep Kotlin knowledge
- Strong command of Jetpack Compose, coroutines, Flows, dependency injection, and Android lifecycle behavior
- Experience leading architecture work in a large or modular Android codebase
- Experience shipping and supporting applications through Google Play
- Understanding of performance, offline state, background execution, media playback, permissions, and device fragmentation
- Strong testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers
- Ability to debug across UI, networking, persistence, services, devices, and CI
- Experience leading complex projects from planning through launch while managing scope, dependencies, risks, and delivery
- Experience operating at lead scope
- Experience using AI coding tools and verifying their output
- Passion for health, fitness, and thoughtful coaching
- Care for interaction quality, accessibility, performance, and product details
- Ability to make architectural decisions based on product needs and operating constraints
- Ability to raise concerns early and propose solutions
- Ability to share context, invite feedback, and help engineers grow
- Ownership from product discovery through production support
- Nice to have: Wear OS or Wearable Data Layer experience
- Nice to have: Health Connect, health sensors, or Bluetooth experience
- Nice to have: HIPAA and health-product regulatory familiarity
- Nice to have: Media3, CameraX, foreground services, or real-time audio/video experience
- Nice to have: Offline-capable applications with Room, WorkManager, and background synchronization
- Nice to have: Fitness, health, coaching, or personalized consumer product experience
- Nice to have: Experience evolving a design system across a large Compose application
Benefits:
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance
- Tax savings accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Free Future Membership
- Health and fitness monthly stipend
- Mental health platform and therapy support
- Reimbursement for medical travel
- Annual learning and development stipend/budget
- Remote-first work
- No travel required