We are looking for an experienced Lead Android Developer to join a consumer-focused team building high-impact mobile experiences for users across Ontario. This long-term contract opportunity is fully remote and offers the chance to contribute to a widely used Android application while working closely with product, design, and engineering partners. The role centres on creating scalable features, improving performance and reliability, and delivering high-quality customer experiences in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and enhance Android features for a high-traffic mobile application using modern development practices and Kotlin-based tooling.
- Create engaging customer-facing experiences across key product journeys such as content discovery, purchasing flows, and live order visibility.
- Develop and refine dynamic feed and recommendation-oriented interfaces that support personalized engagement within the Android app.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teammates to translate business goals into well-executed mobile solutions.
- Deliver production-ready code at a steady pace while supporting experiments that influence growth, engagement, and retention.
- Strengthen application quality by improving performance, maintaining stability across a wide range of Android devices, and addressing challenges in low-connectivity conditions.
- Investigate and resolve issues across owned features from initial diagnosis through implementation and validation.
- Contribute to a clean, maintainable, and modular codebase that supports long-term scalability and efficient collaboration.
- Work with internal development and deployment platforms, version control practices, and CI workflows to support reliable feature delivery.
- 5+ years of Android development experience in roles focused on building mobile applications.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Kotlin and the Android ecosystem, including Android SDK and Android Studio.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable, customer-facing Android experiences with attention to usability, performance, and reliability.
- Experience supporting product areas that involve personalized content, recommendation-driven interfaces, or dynamic home screen experiences.
- Familiarity with backend-adjacent technologies and services such as Ruby, Go, GraphQL, and observability or analytics tools including Datadog.
- Working knowledge of Git-based source control and continuous integration workflows used in modern software delivery.
- Comfortable collaborating within design systems and internal platforms that support development, testing, and release processes.
- Proven ability to work effectively in fast-paced teams with a high level of ownership and accountability.
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