Top Senior Android Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.

Develop Android mobile applications for public safety customers across requirements gathering, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, and enhancement. Interns may use Kotlin, Android Studio, Android Framework components, RESTful APIs, Git, and Android security mechanisms while working within Agile software development practices.

Build and improve features for Rare Candy's Android app using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Integrate with GraphQL APIs, fix bugs, and raise UI quality. Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers, ship production work, and grow quickly under senior mobile leadership in a fast-moving startup.

Design, build, and maintain Android tablet platform across firmware, bootloader/BSP, kernel, and device-tree layers. Support MediaTek platforms, integrate hardware components, ensure secure boot and OTA safety, maintain ROM build/release processes, develop device-side apps/tools in Kotlin/Java, run validation and QA, support factory flashing and field deployments, and provide on-call diagnostics and fixes.

Build and ship robust Android features for ClassPass in a large modular codebase. Collaborate with product and design, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical documentation, solve complex problems, improve systems, and contribute to architectural decisions using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Build and ship Android features and foundational infrastructure for Netflix’s global app. Responsibilities include designing maintainable, testable code; developing shared frameworks and tooling; partnering with product, design, and engineering teams; modernizing Android practices; using automated testing; scoping projects and making technical trade-offs; and applying GenAI tools to improve development workflows.

Design, build and ship native Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Integrate REST APIs, improve performance and reliability, debug production issues, and create AI-assisted on-device experiences (TensorFlow Lite). Collaborate with product and design to simplify complex financial user journeys.

The Android Developer will build and maintain AI-integrated Android applications, focusing on UX and system performance while collaborating with backend and ML engineers.

As an Android Software Engineer, you'll design and develop applications, enhance Android components, and improve telemetry solutions for device reliability in rugged tech environments.

Develop platform support for Unity across Android mobile, laptop, and hybrid devices. Design scalable editor features, analyze and optimize runtime performance, establish benchmarks, resolve bugs, document technical designs, and improve quality through automated testing and code reviews. The role requires advanced C++, C#, and Android systems programming, experience with platform or runtime systems, multithreaded codebases, cross-language memory management, debugging, profiling, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Leads cross-functional platform engineering initiatives supporting Unity on Android devices. Designs architectures, optimizes runtime performance, establishes benchmarks, resolves complex system-level issues, mentors engineers, contributes to platform roadmaps, documents technical decisions, and participates in design reviews. The role requires advanced C++, C#, and Android systems programming expertise, strong knowledge of computer architecture, multithreading, debugging, profiling, and large-scale platform or runtime systems.

Design, build, and maintain core Android infrastructure, app architecture, developer frameworks, and release tooling. Implement cross-platform UI frameworks, server-driven UI, and scalable libraries using Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, Dagger/Hilt, and GraphQL. Drive testability, performance, accessibility, and production tooling while collaborating with product and client teams to enable engineering velocity at scale.

Design and build scalable, maintainable Android client infrastructure and product experiences using Kotlin and modern Android tooling. Define best practices, write automated tests, improve app architecture (MVVM, unidirectional state), collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and lead high-impact projects to improve performance, quality, and developer velocity across the Netflix Android app.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Android applications using Kotlin/Java and Jetpack components. Integrate REST APIs, optimize performance and security, participate in architecture and deployment activities, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment while supporting CI/CD and release management.

Develop and maintain high-performance Android mobile apps using React Native. Collaborate with designers and backend engineers, integrate RESTful APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, debug issues, participate in code reviews, and follow best practices for testing, CI/CD, and app deployment to the Google Play Store.

Lead the development of Android products, design SDKs, enhance security measures, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and innovate in fraud prevention.

Design and implement Kotlin/Java Android apps, frameworks, and SDKs for vehicle infotainment (AOSP/AAOS). Use test-driven development, collaborate with UX, product, cluster, and mobile teams, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and deliver high-quality embedded HMI features for EVs.

Design and implement Kotlin-based Android/AOSP/AAOS apps, frameworks, and SDKs for vehicle infotainment. Deliver features and fixes, use TDD, perform code reviews, write design docs and roadmaps, collaborate with UX/product/engineering, and provide technical leadership.