Staff Software Engineer, Android

Who We Are

We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. 

We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.  

If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.

The Role

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Android for our Native Mobile team. In this role, you’ll take ownership of our Android app across all phases of product development. You’ll lead the delivery of Android architecture and roadmap, setting and enforcing engineering standards. You’ll partner closely with iOS, Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship high-quality mobile experiences that align with our vision.

This role is ideal for an IC leader who combines high autonomy with cross‑team influence—mentors others, leads design reviews, communicates clearly, and embodies a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own Android technical strategy & delivery: architecture, modularization, and a release every two weeks.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to define requirements, scope, acceptance criteria, and execute on the delivery of new features and improvements.
• Evolve the dev environment to keep up with modern tools, libraries, and platform releases, and maintain build and CI/CD health.
• Partner cross-platform to ensure parity and consistency between Android and iOS in both experience and patterns/conventions. Occasionally contribute to iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) as needed (up to ~5-10%).
• Shape GraphQL integrations: collaborate on schema design, implement shared GraphQL libraries (schema + resolvers), and integration into the Android app.
• Raise the quality bar by setting and enforcing Android development standards for code quality/patterns, performance, and security.
• Mentor and influence engineers by leading knowledge-sharing efforts, running design/code reviews, and driving cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

Must-Have

• Proven Staff/Lead impact owning Android architecture and multi-team delivery for complex consumer apps.
• Deep fluency in modern Android development: Kotlin, Compose (+navigation), Coroutines & Flow, MVVM with unidirectional data flow, DI with Hilt/Dagger, multi-module clean architecture.
• Hands-on Android CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Gradle, and Google Play multi-track releases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; adept at async collaboration across distributed teams.
• Experience with the latest AI-assisted software development tools and responsible usage.
• Bias for ownership and pragmatic delivery; comfortable with ambiguity and accountable to measurable outcomes.
• Testing depth across unit, integration, and UI (JUnit, MockK, Turbine, Compose UI/Espresso).
• Operational excellence experience: instrumentation/observability (e.g., Sentry, logs/metrics), reliability ownership, and security best practices.
• Experience collaborating on backend-for-frontend (BFF) design and consumption for mobile.
• Strong GraphQL experience on Android (we use Apollo Kotlin); exposure to Fastify + Mercurius for BFF development is a plus.

Nice-To-Have

• Comfortable reading and contributing to the iOS codebase (Swift/SwiftUI).
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform development for shared libraries (e.g., networking, models, validation).
• Experience collaborating in a fully remote team across different time zones.
• 100% Kotlin - 100% Jetpack Compose, single activity, multi-module
• Clean Architecture (UI / Domain / Data), MVVM with unidirectional data flow
• Apollo Kotlin (client GraphQL) with a Fastify + Mercurius BFF
• Gradle (Kotlin DSL), custom in-house Gradle plugins, GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Testing: JUnit, MockK, Turbine, Compose UI Testing / Espresso

Our Android Stack:

• Dagger/Hilt For Di

• Coroutines & Flow

Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact. 

Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more! 

Benefits.  The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.

Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.

*applicable to in-office employees