About Slickdeals:
We believe shopping should feel like winning. That’s why 10 million people come to Slickdeals to swap tips, upvote the best finds, and share the thrill of a great deal. Together, our community has saved more than $10 billion over the past 26 years.
We’re profitable, passionate, and in the middle of an exciting evolution—transforming from the internet’s most trusted deal forum into the go-to daily shopping destination. If you thrive in a fast-moving, creative environment where ideas turn into impact fast, you’ll fit right in.
The Purpose:
Slickdeals is seeking a highly experienced Senior II level Android Engineer to drive the technical vision, execution, and quality of our Android platform. This role serves as a key technical leader responsible for designing and delivering innovative mobile experiences for Slickdeals users. You will guide architectural decisions, mentor the team, lead large-scale initiatives, and collaborate closely with Product, Design, iOS, Backend, and other engineering groups to ensure a seamless, performant, and reliable mobile experience.
This position is perfect for someone who thrives in both technical execution and high-level leadership, helping to shape our mobile app and guide it to success.
What You'll Do:
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Drive the long-term technical roadmap and architecture for the Android platform while leading complex, cross-functional initiatives—including architecture upgrades, Jetpack Compose adoption, modularization, and system-wide performance and scalability improvements.
- Evaluate and introduce new libraries, tools, and frameworks to improve developer velocity, code quality, and user experience.
- Guide the team through technical decision-making, system design reviews, and engineering best practices.
Hands-On Engineering
- Design, develop, test, debug, and deliver high-quality Android features using Kotlin (and Java when needed).
- Build robust integrations with backend services, ensuring efficient data handling, caching strategies, and error handling.
- Write comprehensive unit, functional, and automated tests to maintain app stability and reliability.
- Optimize app performance across network, rendering, memory, and startup time.
Collaboration & Cross-Functional Influence
- Work with Product, Design, and engineering partners to deeply understand user needs, influence product direction, and guide technically sound, user-focused feature development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve mobile architecture, tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and development processes.
- Contribute to mobile-wide standards, including observability, crash reporting, performance metrics, and release readiness.
Team Development & Mentorship
- Mentor and coach senior and mid-level engineers to elevate the team’s technical capabilities.
- Lead by example through code reviews, design sessions, and knowledge sharing.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with the latest Android SDK updates, best practices, UX patterns, and platform capabilities.
- Proactively identify technical debt, instability risks, or future scalability challenges and propose solutions.
What We're Looking For:
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional Android development experience, with deep expertise in Kotlin (Java experience also valuable).
- Proven success operating at a Senior Engineer II level driving architectural decisions and large-scale initiatives.
- Mastery of modern Android frameworks and patterns:
- Jetpack/AndroidX, Architecture Components
- Jetpack Compose (highly preferred)
- Coroutines, Flow
- MVVM, MVI, or similar architectures
- Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
- Strong experience working on large-scale, high-performance Android applications.
- Expertise in performance profiling, crash/ANR analysis, memory optimization, and observability tooling.
- Experience with modern development workflows, including Git-based version control, CI/CD pipelines, Agile processes, and automated mobile testing frameworks.
- Strong understanding of GraphQL and RESTful APIs, networking best practices, offline support patterns, and mobile analytics practices such as A/B testing and feature flag integrations.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and crash-reporting tools, including Firebase, Crashlytics, Sentry, or similar platforms.
- Strong problem-solving ability with a proactive mindset for identifying risks and opportunities.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Previous experience as an Android mobile engineer in an e-commerce or deal-oriented industry.
- Passion for staying updated on the latest Android and mobile development trends.
At Slickdeals, we value teamwork, innovation, and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences. If you are a motivated Android Mobile Engineer who enjoys working on challenging
LOCATION: San Mateo, CA or Las Vegas, NV
Flexible hybrid schedule working in our San Mateo or Las Vegas office.
