Senior Android Engineer (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose)

Location: Remote, United States; some travel required.

Company

OleOle is building a global social, messaging, commerce, sports, payments, and content platform for football fans.

What you will do

• Architect and build the native Android application with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Develop social feeds, microblogging, encrypted messaging, realtime chat, voice and video calling, contacts, invitations, and user discovery.
• Implement short-form vertical video capture, upload, playback, compression, and media handling.
• Integrate live scores, realtime match events, push notifications, authentication, secure sessions, localization, translation, wallets, payments, and rewards.
• Integrate backend APIs and realtime services while collaborating with backend, product, and design teams.
• Optimize startup, scrolling, networking, caching, media playback, battery usage, and behavior across Android devices and unreliable networks; own testing, debugging, and Google Play production releases.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial native Android development.
• Expert-level Kotlin and strong production experience with Jetpack Compose.
• Experience architecting, building, and shipping complex consumer Android applications, including at least one substantial product involving social feeds, messaging, short-form video, live content, or realtime communications.
• Strong experience with Kotlin Coroutines, Flow, WebSockets, and realtime or event-driven mobile applications.
• Production experience with WebRTC or comparable voice/video calling technology.
• Strong experience with CameraX and Media3/ExoPlayer, including video capture, playback, compression, upload, and media handling.
• Strong understanding of Android networking, caching, memory management, mobile performance optimization, application lifecycle, background execution, device/OS fragmentation, and poor or intermittent network conditions.
• Production experience with Firebase Cloud Messaging, push notifications, and background processing; experience with authentication, Android Keystore or secure storage, session management, and privacy-sensitive functionality.
• Experience integrating complex backend APIs, working directly with backend engineers as APIs evolve, and taking applications through Google Play review, release, and production operation.
• Ability to independently own a major application or feature from architecture through production, with strong debugging, profiling, testing, and production troubleshooting skills. Must be a hands-on engineer who writes production code rather than primarily an engineering manager.

Nice to have

• Understanding of football and international sports.

Culture & Benefits

• Early-stage technology company environment with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and broad technical problem-solving.
• Encouragement to propose new ideas, challenge standard practices, and work independently with limited micromanagement.
• Written deferred compensation agreement during the company’s funding round; compensation is earned during this period and becomes payable when funding closes.
• After funding, transition to a standard package with salary, equity, and OleOle token participation.
• The role requires some travel.