Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3> <p>Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. A leader in cloud physical security, Verkada helps organizations strengthen safety and efficiency through one connected software platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.<br><br>Over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including more than 100 companies in the Fortune 500, trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.</p></div><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>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 <strong>Platform</strong> model.</p> <p>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 "Native Systems Layer"—ensuring that our mobile foundation is reliable, scalable, and easy for other teams to build upon. You will also focus on the specialized native challenges that cannot be solved with web technology, ensuring the Verkada mobile experience remains fast, secure, and deeply integrated with the Android OS.</p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Native UI Platform:</strong> Maintain and evolve our existing <strong>Native Component Library</strong> built with Jetpack Compose. You will ensure these "Lego bricks" are scalable, accessible, and easily consumable by other product teams to ensure a consistent, fluid experience.</li> <li><strong>Platform Infrastructure DX:</strong> Elevate the "Developer Experience" for Android. This includes optimizing our <strong>CI/CD pipelines</strong>, expanding test automation strategies, and hardening an automated, multi-team release process.</li> <li><strong>Network Reliability Layer:</strong> Maintain a high-performance networking stack that handles the complexities of offline-first synchronization, intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud.</li> <li><strong>Systems Hardware Integration:</strong> Own the implementation of low-level protocols (BLE, NFC, and custom Wi-Fi handshakes) that allow phones to talk to our physical hardware securely and reliably.</li> <li><strong>The Native-Web Bridge:</strong> Optimize the type-safe communication layer that allows dynamic web-based components to interact securely with native device sensors, secure enclaves, and core system logic.</li> <li><strong>Architecture Evolution:</strong> Act as a technical consultant to other product teams, evaluating new patterns (such as <strong>Server-Driven UI</strong>) to determine how we can best balance native performance with global engineering velocity.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What You Bring</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>6+ years of professional Android development</strong> with a deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure Tooling:</strong> Strong experience with mobile <strong>CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise)</strong> and a "test-first" mentality. You enjoy building tools that make other engineers more productive.</li> <li><strong>Networking Protocols:</strong> Deep understanding of the networking stack (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and experience handling unreliable network conditions at scale.</li> <li><strong>Hardware Connectivity:</strong> Hands-on experience with <strong>Bluetooth (BLE)</strong>, NFC, or the nuances of Android background execution limits.</li> <li><strong>Modern UI Mastery:</strong> Expert proficiency in <strong>Jetpack Co ... (truncated, view full listing at source)