Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems

About the Role

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security. As our ecosystem grows, our Mobile Core team is pivoting to a high-leverage Platform model.

The Mobile Core team provides the underlying systems, frameworks, and components used by product teams across the company to build high-performance mobile experiences. In this role, you will be a key technical contributor to our "Native Systems Layer"—ensuring that our mobile foundation is reliable, scalable, and easy for other teams to build upon. You will also focus on specialized native challenges, ensuring the Verkada mobile experience remains fast, secure, and deeply integrated with the Android OS.

What You’ll Do

• Native UI Platform: Maintain and evolve our existing Native Component Library built with Jetpack Compose. Ensure these components are scalable, accessible, and easily consumable by other product teams to ensure a consistent, fluid experience.
• Platform Infrastructure & DX: Elevate the Developer Experience for Android by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, expanding test automation strategies, and hardening an automated, multi-team release process.
• Network & Reliability Layer: Maintain a high-performance networking stack handling offline-first synchronization, intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud.
• Systems & Hardware Integration: Own the implementation of low-level protocols (BLE, NFC, and custom Wi-Fi handshakes) that allow phones to communicate securely and reliably with physical hardware.
• The Native-Web Bridge: Optimize the type-safe communication layer allowing dynamic web-based components to interact securely with native device sensors, secure enclaves, and core system logic.
• Architecture Evolution: Act as a technical consultant to other product teams, evaluating new patterns (such as Server-Driven UI) to balance native performance with global engineering velocity.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of professional Android development with a deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Infrastructure & Tooling: Strong experience with mobile CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise) and a test-first mentality.
• Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of the networking stack (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and experience handling unreliable network conditions at scale.
• Hardware & Connectivity: Hands-on experience with Bluetooth (BLE), NFC, or Android background execution limits.
• Modern UI Mastery: Expert proficiency in Jetpack Compose and experience scaling shared UI libraries across multiple teams.
• Release Engineering: Experience managing Google Play Store release cycles for apps with high deployment frequency and multiple contributors.