Amplitude17h ago

Staff Software Engineer - Android DX

San Franciscolead

EngineeringSoftware Engineer

0 views0 saves0 applied

Apply Now

Quick Summary

Overview

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences.

Technical Tools

EngineeringSoftware Engineer

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and long-term evolution of Amplitude’s Android SDK platform.
Own and drive development of core Android SDKs, including Analytics and Session Replay, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and ease of use.
Act as the Android platform expert and trusted partner for other SDK teams (Experiment, Guides, Surveys), enabling them to build on shared foundations safely and efficiently.
Design and evolve shared infrastructure, APIs, and abstractions that scale across multiple Android SDKs.
Collaborate closely with Product, and Customer Support to ensure SDKs meet real customer needs.
Lead cross-team technical discussions, reviews, and architectural decisions that span multiple SDKs.
Improve developer experience through better APIs, documentation, tooling, testing strategies, and sample apps.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the overall quality and effectiveness of the team.

A strong focus on developer experience and empathy for the engineers who use your work.
Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices.
Proficiency in Jetpack Compose beyond UI development, including its rendering pipeline and Composition internals.
A track record of technical leadership where others look to you for guidance and decision-making.
Strong judgment in making tradeoffs between API design, performance, backward compatibility, and speed of delivery.
Comfort working across team boundaries and influencing without direct authority.
A high bar for code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability.
The ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on Android development.
Deep expertise in Android platform internals and best practices.
Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java, and experience with modern Android APIs and tooling.
Experience designing public APIs with a strong focus on stability and backward compatibility.
Experience debugging complex issues across a wide range of Android devices and OS versions.
Familiarity with performance profiling, memory management, and concurrency on Android.

What We Offer

~3 min read

✓We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.

✓Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.

✓We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.

✓We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.

✓We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.

✓We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.

✓We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.

✓Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.