Staff Android Engineer, Mobile Platform

The role

You will be the technical leader for the Android platform across Rivian products. You will set the architecture and own high-risk surfaces including concurrency, persistence, performance, connectivity, and build pipelines.

What you will do

• Own the Android platform architecture across the Rivian app, the Mobile SDK and the Reference App
• Lead the design and delivery of platform capabilities such as connectivity, background execution, Digital Key, auth and vehicle state
• Act as the Android platform expert in tech design reviews and gated code reviews
• Turn review criteria into automated checks like lint rules, architecture tests, CI gates and templates
• Own app health including startup time, app size, crash-free rate, ANRs, jank and background battery impact
• Own Android build, CI/CD, signing, release infrastructure and observability
• Write and maintain in-repo platform documentation
• Lead incident triage and fixes for platform-layer defects
• Take part in the mobile on-call rotation
• Mentor engineers on the platform and feature teams

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in mobile app development, with a significant portion on Android
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Proven record of owning the architecture of a large, multi-module Android codebase used by several teams
• Deep expertise in Kotlin, Coroutines and Flow
• Strong knowledge of Android internals: process and app lifecycle, background execution limits, threading and memory
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture (DI, modularization, Room or similar persistence)
• Expert-level experience with Gradle, build pipelines, CI/CD, signing and dependency management for Android
• Track record of measurably improving app performance and stability
• Experience with Crashlytics, Datadog or similar monitoring tools
• Experience designing client integrations with backend technologies such as gRPC or GraphQL
• Experience setting technical direction through design reviews, code reviews and written standards
• Comfortable using AI coding agents in daily work

Nice to have

• Bluetooth Low Energy or UWB experience, especially long-running background connections
• Digital Key, NFC, secure element or Android Keystore/StrongBox experience
• Experience building or maintaining an SDK consumed by external apps
• Experience with Play Integrity or other device attestation
• Automotive or connected-device software experience

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual company performance bonus program
• equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• health coverage
• retirement savings
• time off
• family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders. They address the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that sets standards for software-defined vehicles.