Android Technical Lead
The opportunity
Join the innovative and quickly growing team at Unity-Aura, where we're building a groundbreaking, large-scale mobile platform. 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.
What we're looking for
- 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.
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Benefits
At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.
While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance | Commute subsidy | Employee stock ownership | Competitive retirement/pension plans | Generous vacation and personal days | Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs | Office food snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program
Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.
This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.
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