Senior Android Engineer

Perchwell

Perchwell

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Feb 20, 2025

Who We Are

Perchwell is the modern data and workflow platform for real estate professionals and consumers. Based on the industry’s foundational data, Perchwell builds a modern software suite to empower real estate professionals to do their best work, provide differentiated service to their clients, and grow their businesses.

Backed by Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and some of the country’s leading Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell builds next generation workflow software/data products for the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry. Perchwell is the first new entrant to come to market in decades and is currently scaling its best-in-class platform.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced Android engineer to join our small mobile team and drive the development of high-quality Android applications. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable mobile-native solutions while ensuring performance, usability, and best engineering practices. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and backend engineers, to create a seamless user experience.

This role will report into our Engineering Manager, Mobile and work out of our SoHo NYC Office 3 days/week

What You’ll Work On

  • Design, develop, and maintain a high-quality native Android application using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks.

  • Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch

  • Architect reusable and scalable code using Clean Architecture principles.

  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and backend engineers to define, design, and ship new features.

  • Help us define a healthy and effective development culture that balances the need to move quickly with planning for the future

  • Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and advocate for best engineering practices.

  • Building test frameworks that help us increase our ability to continuously release code

  • Stay up-to-date with Android development trends and continuously improve our tech stack.

  • Take ownership over QA and release cycles of your work as part of a you-build-it-you-run-it practice.

Required for the Role

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience

  • 5+ years proven experience in designing, building, refactoring, and releasing Native Android applications using industry standard patterns.

  • Strong expertise in Kotlin and Android SDK.

  • Deep understanding of Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger).

  • Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and Material Design guidelines

  • Understand and implement Android specific design patterns such as MVP, MVC, and MVVM

  • Demonstrated ability to lead the development of multiple features of an application and coordinating cross-team consensus and delivery of product releases

  • Understanding of backend technologies with demonstrated ability to collaborate with backend developers on solutions

  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Past experience building medium-to-large scale complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers on-schedule

  • Appreciation for (and the ability to create) simple and beautiful UI

  • Strong understanding of automated testing best practices from unit to integration and the associated frameworks and tools

  • Open-source contributions or published apps on Google Play.

Salary Information
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience.

The base compensation range for this position is expected to be between $155,000- $190,000/year + equity + benefits.

Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.