Staff Android Engineer, Connectivity

Location: Boston, MA, United States; onsite at the WHOOP office. Relocation to Boston may be required.

Salary: $170,000–$230,000 USD base salary per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

WHOOP develops a wearable health and performance platform that continuously streams data from WHOOP hardware to the cloud.

What you will do

• Own the Android connectivity architecture from BLE transport through history synchronization and firmware delivery across a large modular codebase.
• Define communication protocols between the WHOOP strap and Android in coordination with hardware, firmware, software, and iOS teams.
• Improve connection reliability across Android devices by diagnosing OEM-specific Bluetooth, power-management, and permission behavior.
• Build connectivity-health analysis systems, monitor user metrics and feedback, and use telemetry to prioritize reliability and product improvements.
• Drive technical debt reduction, code health, testability, architectural quality, release operations, and incident response.
• Mentor Android engineers, support developer ramp-up, represent Android Connectivity in cross-functional forums, and assist with backend data contracts.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android applications, including consumer-facing apps controlling BLE devices.
• Expert knowledge of the Android Bluetooth stack, including GATT operations, bonding, reconnection, and connection reliability troubleshooting.
• Expert Android application-architecture knowledge, lifecycle understanding, Android Design Guidelines, concurrency and multithreading, Kotlin coroutines, and Flow.
• Strong experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative Android UI.
• Experience with Kotlin, Koin, Android Jetpack libraries including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation, Room, Retrofit, and OkHttp.
• Experience designing modular architecture and dependency boundaries in large multi-module Gradle codebases, including MVI and MVVM patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of Android Studio, Gradle, CI systems, Git, RESTful backends, and distributed-system debugging across firmware, mobile, and backend components.
• Experience writing automated unit and UI tests and a strong commitment to testing, code reviews, architectural design, and code quality.
• Ability to influence engineers beyond the immediate team, communicate effectively, define tradeoffs, collaborate cross-functionally, and apply a product-minded approach to member experience.
• Strong commitment to using AI tools in day-to-day work while maintaining the same quality standards as personal contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment based onsite in the Boston office.
• Participation in the incident commander rotation and the Android release process, including build variants, signing, Firebase distribution and testing, and Play Store submission.
• Competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and benefits.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity and E-Verify participation.