Android Engineer
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Architect core product systems and design high-fidelity, animation-heavy user experiences for Trove's new Android app. Partner with Product and Design to translate ambiguous ideas into intuitive flows, then ship experiments quickly to iterate on what works. Improve app performance, responsiveness, and reliability while implementing networking layers for live marketplace activity. Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed and maintainability, setting the bar for code quality and engineering culture as you own features end-to-end. Work closely with founders and backend engineers to build complex, stateful interfaces that feel simple and native, ensuring the experience scales cleanly without accumulating technical debt.
Required Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Shipping and scaling a highly interactive consumer app
- Standing up or substantially shaping an Android app from an early stage
- Building complex, stateful interfaces that feel simple
- Owning features end-to-end, from design through launch
- Collaborating closely with founders, designers, and backend engineers
- Moving forward with incomplete information and executing despite ambiguity
- Building for marketplace, fintech, gaming, or social apps
- Location: NYC (in office 3 days per week)
Desired Qualifications
- Strong empathy for the end user
- Appreciates clean, functional design
- Care about craft, performance, and the details that make an experience feel effortless
- Thrives in the energy of a founding team where priorities evolve, constraints are real, and momentum matters
- Excited to roll up your sleeves, make critical architectural decisions, and build systems that support rapid product evolution without compromising the user experience
- Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed and maintainability
- Set the bar for code quality, architecture, and engineering culture
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