Android Developer

Peraton is seeking an Android Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve high-quality Android experiences. This Android-first role focuses on Kotlin and modern Android frameworks, while partnering closely with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers to deliver reliable customer value. You will also bring enough practical iOS experience to collaborate on platform tradeoffs and shared mobile standards.

Role Summary

In this position, you will take ownership of complex Android features across discovery, implementation, and post-release monitoring. You will help set the technical direction for Kotlin and key Android technologies, produce clear technical designs that account for risks and dependencies, and support an engineering culture centered on quality, observability, and release confidence.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.
• Set and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.
• Write clear technical designs and surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.
• Build accessible, responsive interfaces in partnership with product design and research.
• Improve automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers to make quality an everyday engineering practice.
• Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.
• Partner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.
• Collaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards while respecting platform-native conventions.
• Review code thoughtfully and mentor engineers, improving technical decisions without creating delivery bottlenecks.
• Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.

Requirements

• 5 years with a BS/BA; or 9 years with a high school diploma.
• Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.
• Production experience with Jetpack Compose, including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound architecture decisions and safely evolve a mature codebase over time.
• Experience with REST or GraphQL, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.
• Strong testing and debugging habits, using crash, performance, and product telemetry to guide decisions.
• Experience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineering and non-engineering partners.
• Record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence and example.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Required/Relevant Technologies

• Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android SDK, Jetpack libraries
• Coroutines, reactive state management, REST, GraphQL
• Views, Google Play
• Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode

iOS Experience Expected

• Hands-on experience reading and making scoped changes in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or UIKit.
• Familiarity with Xcode, iOS app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, testing, code signing, and App Store release workflows.
• Ability to compare Android and iOS implementation tradeoffs without forcing identical architecture or user-interface patterns.
• Experience contributing to shared mobile conventions, API contracts, design systems, analytics taxonomies, or cross-platform feature parity.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production Android applications (equivalent depth of experience is welcome).
• Experience in a consumer, subscription, healthcare, fintech, marketplace, or other reliability-sensitive mobile product.
• Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform or another selective code-sharing approach, with pragmatic judgment about where sharing helps.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, build performance, feature flags, experimentation, and automated release tooling.
• Familiarity with mobile security, privacy, accessibility standards, and threat modeling.
• Experience leading migrations such as Views to Compose, monolith to modules, or legacy asynchronous code to coroutines.

Compensation & Location

• Location: San Antonio, TX (onsite)
• Target Salary Range: USD 86,000 - 138,000 per yearly
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Life, Health savings account
• Short/long term disability
• EAP
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• Company paid holidays

Application & Interview Notes

• The application period is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date.
• By applying, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company.
• During application review, candidates may be required to participate in an on-camera interview and an identity verification process.
• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization.
• All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

Education: BS/BA