We're looking for an exceptional and passionate Android Tech Lead to drive technical excellence, guide architectural decisions, and help scale a product used by millions of users daily.
Our goal is to create a content discovery platform that offers users unique and effortless ways to discover the content they love. At Aura, we continuously adopt modern Android technologies and engineering practices to build a scalable, high-performance product in a fast-moving environment.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to have a major technical impact on a complex product with massive scale, while mentoring developers and shaping engineering standards across the team. We value leaders who combine strong technical depth with ownership, creativity, and collaboration, while embracing modern AI-driven
What you'll be doing
Lead technical direction for our Android teams, driving architecture, scalability, and engineering best practices.
Design and implement complex Android features with a strong focus on maintainability, performance, and product quality.
Mentor Android developers through technical guidance, code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration.
Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the teams to improve productivity, code quality, development speed, and knowledge sharing.
Encourage creative engineering problem-solving and exploration of innovative solutions, including effective and responsible usage of AI technologies.
Own and improve the teams' engineering standards, including testing, observability, release quality, and development workflows.
Drive technical discussions and make thoughtful tradeoff decisions balancing speed, quality, scalability, and business impact.
Lead technical investigations and support production stability, performance optimization, and issue resolution.
Help improve development processes, team efficiency, and overall engineering culture.
Stay up to date with the latest Android ecosystem trends and emerging AI technologies, evaluating opportunities to enhance engineering effectiveness and developer experience.
Requirements: 5+ years of experience building Android applications with Kotlin, including strong knowledge of Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack libraries, and modern Android architecture.
Strong technical leadership skills with experience driving architectural decisions, mentoring developers, and promoting engineering best practices.
Experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance mobile applications.
Passion for code quality, testing, production stability, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
Experience in AI-assisted development tools and the ability to drive AI adoption and innovation within the team.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills with a pragmatic, product-oriented mindset.
You might also have
Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern UI development practices.
Experience working on large-scale or high-traffic Android applications serving millions of users.
Background working with system apps, OEM integrations, or device-level Android features.
Experience with web development and building integrations between mobile and web platforms.
Experience with modularization, CI/CD pipelines, developer productivity improvements, and release management.
Strong experience with Android testing frameworks, observability, and performance optimization.
This position is open to all candidates.