Hybrid Staff Android Engineer, Platform

at Patreon

• Job title: Staff Android Engineer, Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $246,400 - $369,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Android, Kotlin, Swift
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Staff Android Engineer at Patreon focusing on enhancing the Android platform. Leading design systems, improving accessibility, and guiding strategic migrations for developer efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Elevate our design system. Own the architecture, implementation, and ongoing evolution of our shared Swift component library so product teams can ship beautiful, unified experiences at speed.
• Champion accessibility. Work closely with our Design team to address accessibility issues and ensure WCAG 2.2 compliance.
• Guide strategic migrations. Lead multi-phase initiatives such as replacing our local data store, introducing modern view patterns, and expanding our adoption of SwiftUI.
• Set the bar for engineering quality. Review engineering design proposals for new features, help shape backend API contracts, and run thoughtful code reviews that level-up engineers across the org.
• Influence the platform roadmap. Work closely with design, product, and leadership to translate long-term business goals into a clear, scalable technical vision for Android.
• Mentor and multiply. Provide hands-on coaching, documentation, and golden path implementations that grow the entire mobile team so they can deliver with confidence.

Requirements

• 6+ years building consumer-grade Android apps, with at least 1 year operating in a Staff role.
• Expert-level Kotlin and deep knowledge of Compose; comfortable refactoring large codebases to modern patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining a design system — including theming, typography, motion, and accessibility states — is desired.
• In-depth understanding of Android accessibility APIs and current WCAG guidelines.
• Comfortable reviewing and shaping backend API contracts; able to reason about latency, payload size, and maintainability over time.
• Experience with git, modern CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Excellent communication skills—you write crisp design docs, give actionable feedback, and can influence without authority across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible time off
• Company holidays and recharge days
• Commuter benefits
• Lifestyle stipends
• Learning and development stipends
• Parental leave
• Equity plans