Medium Senior Android Engineer at Medium responsible for building and evolving the Android app experience. Own features end to end including design collaboration, development, shipping, and performance monitoring.
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to help build and evolve the Android experience that millions of readers and writers rely on every day. You'll own Android features end to end. That means digging into what users actually need, building it, shipping it, and paying attention to how it actually performs once it's out in the world. You'll work closely with our design team the whole way through.
This is a product engineering role at heart. We don't have a dedicated product team, so you won't be handed a fully-specified ticket and told to go build it. Rather, you'll be the one figuring out what's worth building in the first place, partnering with design and other engineers, and making good calls when the ask is vague or doesn't quite solve the real problem. Android is where you'll spend most of your time, but we want someone who can also hold their own on at least one other platform, whether that's web, iOS, or backend. That range matters: it means you can see how a feature fits into the bigger picture, make good calls about where logic should live, and work credibly with whoever owns that other platform.
Own Android features end to end. Understand the problem, build it, ship it, and see how it actually does
Shape what gets built, not just how it gets built. Push back on scope, propose simpler solutions, and raise platform constraints early rather than after the fact
Write idiomatic, well-tested Kotlin and Compose UI that fits naturally into the team's existing architecture
Work directly with iOS, web, or backend engineers depending on what a feature needs, and help decide where functionality should live
Partner with our leadership team, design team, and engineers in the US and France to turn a rough idea into something that actually ships well on Android
Bring superb judgment to ambiguous requests. You can ask good questions, spot edge cases early, and propose reasonable first steps when the full scope isn't clear yet
Own shaping product and feature spaces, maintaining and driving a sense of forward momentum even when the final destination of your work may not be clear
Help raise the bar for the mobile team on code quality, testing, and product thinking
Attend Medium's twice-yearly, in-person offsites (hosted in locations around the U.S.)
You've spent several years building production Android apps and you're genuinely fluent in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines and Flow, and modern Android architecture
Qualification
Fluency in Kotlin
Required
Several years building production Android apps
Fluency in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, Flow, and modern Android architecture
Preferred
Experience using AI to improve a team's leverage, reach, output and impact
You've owned product direction yourself rather than just executing someone else's plan
You personally use Medium and are genuinely excited to contribute to its mission, which is empowering humans to write meaningfully for other humans
