Hybrid Staff Software Mobile Engineer - Android

This role is hybrid opportunity for candidates to work in office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from our Seattle, San Francisco, or Detroit offices and work remotely all other days . We can consider highly qualified candidates on a remote only basis who reside outside of these three areas.
Redfin is continually improving and expanding our app to include new features, and options for our customers.  As an Android Technical Lead, you'll join a passionate team working to enable Redfin's app developers to build and ship the top-rated real estate apps. We support the infrastructure to ensure our app is fast and stable. We also build the core frameworks, mobile design system, and tooling to support building features for our customers that allow them to interact with the home buying experience while on the move. 

About the Role

• Hands-on development lead responsible for churning out robust, scalable, maintainable and well-tested code while leading the deliverables and mentorship of the Android Consumer Apps  team.

• Design and implement complex, technical projects that enable Redfin's app developers to build and ship the top-rated real estate apps.

• Contribute to the long-term strategy of the Android platform, considering technical and product-level concerns.

• Drives engineering productivity for the Consumer Apps Engineering team at Redfin: constantly looking to improve maintainability, reduce technical debt, and make all apps engineers more efficient at writing code.

• Collaborate with your teammates by reviewing code, writing documentation, refining best practices, and building maintainable and testable codebases.

• Work closely with our product and design teams to understand user and business needs.

• Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code.

About You

• You have 8+ years of Android development experience creating consumer facing enterprise iOS Android apps along with 1+ years experience in a Technical Lead or Staff level role.

• You have an expert understanding of Android solution architectures and building advanced interactive user experience.

• You set the long term technical strategy for a product area to make a significant impact on key business and engineering metrics.

• You are a teacher and a mentor: you lead by example and mentor the next set of technical leaders at the company.

• You help guide the team through healthy, constructive disagreements, demonstrating respect for everyone’s opinions and ideas.

• You can collaborate across distances and experience levels, and you can disagree constructively with respect for everyone’s opinions and ideas.

• You have experience with mobile CI/CD and cloud development technologies, such as Bitrise and Jenkins.

• You have deep knowledge of at least one AI code generation tool, such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.

What you’ll get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About us

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team!

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time.  Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.  The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected].

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $199,300.00-$243,600.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company’s current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.