Top Android Developer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Designs, develops, debugs, optimizes, and validates firmware and system software for high-performance IoT platforms across Linux, Android, and real-time operating systems. The role involves embedded programming, automated and unit testing, multi-core architecture debugging, architectural collaboration, cross-disciplinary feature development, and cloud-based validation at scale.

Lead the Android platform for Cash App Consumer Platform, building foundational infrastructure, shared libraries, architecture patterns, observability, performance tooling, and developer experiences used across the organization. Drive AI-native engineering practices and tools, identify cross-cutting technical problems, lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Android, iOS, web, backend, product, and design teams.

Build and own foundational Android platform infrastructure, shared libraries, frameworks, architecture, observability, performance tooling, and developer experience systems. Lead AI-native engineering practices, evaluate AI development tools, drive cross-organizational technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish scalable Android standards. Collaborate across mobile, web, backend, product, design, and leadership teams to improve engineering velocity and customer experiences.

The role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable Android applications, leading complex projects, ensuring quality through automated testing, and mentoring engineers.

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 applications for the Amazon Marketplace team, ensuring high-performance and reliable code while collaborating with PMs and designers in a fast-paced environment.

Design, build, and maintain high-quality Android applications using Kotlin/Java. Collaborate with product, design, backend, and QA teams to implement features, fix bugs, optimize performance, and ensure code quality through testing, code reviews, and CI/CD workflows.

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.

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

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.

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.

Build and ship Android features and infrastructure for Netflix’s global streaming and discovery experiences. Design maintainable, testable software using modern Android technologies, collaborate with product and engineering teams, evaluate technical trade-offs, modernize codebases, and support shared client frameworks. Engineers may work on server-driven UI, ads platforms, SDKs, developer tooling, or high-scale real-time experiences while using automated testing and GenAI development workflows.

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, build, and maintain high-quality Android/iOS mobile applications integrated with OXIO's telecom platform. Contribute to architecture, write reusable/testable code, optimize performance, implement automated tests, troubleshoot across devices, and support CI/CD and releases while collaborating with backend and platform teams.

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.

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.

Design, build, and maintain high-quality Android app features within cross-functional squads. Collaborate with PMs, designers, backend, firmware, and QA. Improve Android codebase, contribute to architecture, code reviews, testing, and mentor engineers while owning projects end-to-end from design to release and maintenance.

Lead design and development of high-performance, offline-capable iOS (iPad) and Android apps for mission-critical drone operations. Build real-time maps, video streaming, telemetry overlays; integrate with hardware; optimize battery, memory, and latency; implement offline-first sync; collaborate with backend/hardware teams; mentor engineers and establish CI/CD, testing, and security best practices.

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

Design, build, and ship native Android features in Kotlin for BJAK's AI Neobank app. Integrate backend APIs, improve performance, reduce crashes, collaborate with product/design, use analytics to iterate, and add on-device AI where it improves UX.

Build and ship native Android features for onboarding, accounts, cards, payments, transfers, rewards and AI-assisted journeys. Turn complex financial flows into simple mobile experiences, own app quality (performance, crashes, loading states), integrate APIs and secure authentication, and iterate using production feedback and analytics while collaborating with product, design, backend and AI engineers.

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.