Epic Kids is the leading digital reading platform built for kids 12 and under, trusted by millions of children, educators, and families around the world. Our mission is to inspire a lifelong love of reading by providing unlimited access to thousands of high-quality books, videos, and educational content through a safe and engaging experience. We combine technology, storytelling, and learning innovation to help every child become a confident reader.
At Epic, you'll join a collaborative and fast-paced global team passionate about building meaningful products that make a real impact on children's education and literacy.
About the roleYou'll own Epic's native Android app, the main way kids open a book on Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks. It's a large, mature Kotlin codebase with some Java and xml UI layouts. You'll work independently and partner closely with our Android, iOS, backend and web engineers and with the US engineering team.
What you'll doOwn and evolve the Android app across phones, tablets and Chromebooks.
Own the reading experience: our in-house page renderer and page-flip animation, zoom and gestures, and Read-to-Me audio synced to word highlighting.
Own offline reading (encrypted downloads, background work, local storage), Google Play Billing subscriptions, and the Play Store release pipeline.
Drive performance, stability and quality: startup time, memory, ANRs and crashes, and test coverage.
Modernize carefully: move legacy Java and RxJava code forward without breaking a live app. also move to compose UIs whenever possible.
Over time, pick up some iOS/Swift work.
4 - 6 years of building and shipping native Android apps.
Strong Kotlin, and comfortable working in mixed Kotlin and Java code.
Deep experience with the Android View system, Fragments and custom Views: custom drawing, animation and touch handling.
Reactive and async programming: RxJava 2 in production, plus Kotlin coroutines.
Dependency injection, MVP or MVVM architecture and Networking with Retrofit and OkHttp.
Local persistence with Room/SQLite, including schema migrations, and background work with WorkManager.
Google Play Billing and the release pipeline: Gradle build variants, app signing, CI (Jenkins or similar), Play Console tracks and staged rollouts.
Testing with JUnit, Mockito or MockK, Robolectric and Espresso.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Media: ExoPlayer/Media3, MediaPlayer, and syncing audio to text.
Handling encrypted media and content stored offline.
Jetpack Compose, and the judgment to know when it fits alongside an existing View-based codebase.
Performance tooling: Perfetto, Android Studio profilers, LeakCanary, New Relic or Crashlytics.
Experience with kids' or education apps and children's privacy rules (COPPA).
Interest in cross-platform mobile and some familiarity with iOS/Swift.
40–50 LPA, with some flexibility for exceptional candidates.
Skills Required
- 4–6 years of experience building and shipping native Android applications
- Strong Kotlin experience
- Comfort working in mixed Kotlin and Java codebases
- Deep experience with Android Views, Fragments, custom Views, custom drawing, animation, and touch handling
- Production experience with RxJava 2 and Kotlin coroutines
- Experience with dependency injection and MVP or MVVM architecture
- Experience with Retrofit and OkHttp networking
- Experience with Room or SQLite, including schema migrations
- Experience with WorkManager and background processing
- Experience with Google Play Billing and the Android release pipeline
- Experience with Gradle build variants, app signing, CI, Play Console tracks, and staged rollouts
- Testing experience with JUnit, Mockito or MockK, Robolectric, and Espresso
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with ExoPlayer or Media3, MediaPlayer, and synchronizing audio to text
- Experience handling encrypted media and offline content
- Experience with Jetpack Compose alongside View-based codebases
- Experience with Perfetto, Android Studio profilers, LeakCanary, New Relic, or Crashlytics
- Experience with children’s or education applications and COPPA
- Interest in cross-platform mobile development and familiarity with iOS or Swift
What We Do
Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids. Reaching more than 50 million children in homes and classrooms, Epic fuels curiosity and reading confidence in kids to explore their interests and learn in a fun, safe, kid-friendly environment. Our award-winning service is built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books, audiobooks and videos from 250+ of the world’s best publishers including HarperCollins, Macmillan, Sesame Street, National Geographic Kids and Smithsonian. Epic provides free access to educators and is used by more than 2 million teachers in the classroom. The company was founded by Suren Markosian, founder of several successful technology startups, and Kevin Donahue, former YouTube, Google and Disney executive, with the support of top tier investors and veterans of the children’s publishing industry. It is part of the BYJU’S family of brands, working together to unlock a love of learning around the world. To learn more, visit getepic.com, or follow Epic! on Facebook and Twitter. To learn more about Epic, please visit www.getepic.com.
