About the Project

We are partnering with a startup studio launching a consumer mobile product in the pet-tech and digital companion space. The product combines virtual pet ownership, personalization, content experiences, and emotional engagement into a mobile-first platform designed to create daily habits and meaningful user connections. Users can adopt and care for digital companions, personalize their experience, interact with pet-related content, and build long-term engagement through lightweight, rewarding interactions. The founding team has successfully built and scaled multiple technology companies and is now investing heavily in creating a category-defining consumer product. The focus over the next 12 months is rapid iteration, user growth, retention optimization, and building a highly polished mobile experience that users genuinely love.

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Role and Responsibilities

• Own the Android application end-to-end, from architecture decisions to Google Play releases.
• Design, build, and maintain a modern Android application using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, growth, and backend teams to ship impactful consumer-facing features.
• Build highly engaging experiences around personalization, user profiles, content consumption, rewards, notifications, and retention mechanics.
• Develop polished mobile interfaces with smooth animations, delightful interactions, and exceptional UX quality.
• Architect scalable Android systems using modern patterns, modularization, and clean separation of concerns.
• Integrate APIs, analytics platforms, feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and monetization capabilities.
• Implement robust local persistence, offline-first capabilities, synchronization strategies, and state management.
• Contribute to growth initiatives through A/B testing infrastructure, analytics instrumentation, and experimentation tooling.
• Ensure application performance across a wide range of Android devices and form factors.
• Maintain high engineering standards through testing, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices.
• Support Play Store releases, crash monitoring, production debugging, and continuous delivery processes.
• Help shape the long-term mobile architecture as the product scales from early adopters to a large consumer audience.

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What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• 4+ years of professional Android development experience building and shipping production mobile applications.
• Strong expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development practices.
• Deep experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android UI architecture.
• Strong understanding of Android Architecture Components, ViewModel, Navigation, Coroutines, Flow, and Dependency Injection.
• Experience designing scalable mobile architectures such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, or similar patterns.
• Experience building highly interactive consumer applications with polished UI and animations.
• Strong understanding of networking, caching, offline-first architecture, local databases, and API integrations.
• Experience implementing analytics, event tracking, feature flags, and experimentation frameworks.
• Track record of successfully publishing and maintaining apps on Google Play.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to balance technical quality and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to operate independently in a remote-first environment.
• Comfortable working in startup environments with ambiguity, ownership, and rapid iteration cycles.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) or shared mobile architectures across Android and iOS. KMP is now officially supported by Google and increasingly adopted by modern mobile teams.
• Experience with Compose Multiplatform or cross-platform mobile strategies.
• Experience working on consumer social, gaming, creator, lifestyle, wellness, or subscription-based products.
• Experience building habit-forming products with retention loops, engagement systems, and notification strategies.
• Familiarity with mobile monetization models, subscriptions, in-app purchases, and lifecycle optimization.
• Experience with Firebase, GraphQL, AWS, modern backend platforms, or event-driven architectures.
• Experience scaling mobile products from MVP stage to large user bases.
• Experience implementing AI-powered mobile experiences or integrating LLM-powered features.
• Startup or founder-led environment experience.
• Strong interest in product design, user psychology, growth, and consumer engagement mechanics.

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Preferred Technical Stack

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Material 3
• Coroutines & Flow
• Android Architecture Components
• Hilt / Dependency Injection
• Room
• Retrofit / Ktor
• Firebase
• GraphQL
• Kotlin Multiplatform (nice-to-have)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Crashlytics
• Feature Flags & Experimentation Platforms

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Why Join Us?

• Join a proven founding team with a strong track record of building and scaling technology companies.
• Own a critical part of the product and have significant influence over architecture, product direction, and technical strategy.
• Work directly with decision-makers and see your impact reflected in real user behavior.
• Help build a consumer product from an early stage through growth and scale.
• Opportunity to evolve into a long-term leadership or founding-engineer position as the company expands.
• Remote-first culture with flexibility, autonomy, and high trust.
• Fast-moving environment focused on shipping, learning, and building products users genuinely love.

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Application Instructions

Please send the following and we will contact you:

• Your résumé/CV highlighting relevant Android applications you have built and shipped.
• Links to Google Play projects, portfolio, GitHub, or other relevant work samples.
• Your availability and expected compensation.
• Brief description of the most impactful consumer mobile product you have worked on and your specific contributions.
• Any startup, founding engineer, or high-growth product experience you would like to highlight (optional but highly valued).