Staff Android Engineer, Mobile Platform

About the role

ABOUT US

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.

The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Canada is proud to be a Great Place To Work® Certified company — 92% of employees at RV Tech Canada say it is a great place to work, compared to 60% at a typical company.

ROLE SUMMARY

As a Staff Android Engineer you will be the technical leader for the Android platform across our products. You will set its architecture, own its high-risk surfaces (concurrency, persistence, performance, connectivity and build pipelines), and review the designs and code that feature engineers land on top of it. This is not a feature role: your product is the platform.

The Mobile Platform team owns the iOS and Android foundation beneath three products: the Rivian mobile app, the RVT Mobile SDK used by partner brands, and the Mobile Reference App. Our customers are the feature teams who build on that foundation, and we measure success by how fast and safely they ship. We achieve that through clean architecture, rules enforced in CI rather than in reviewers' heads, strong observability, and intentional use of AI-assisted development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own the Android platform architecture across the Rivian app, the Mobile SDK and the Reference App, and drive it forward (Jetpack Compose, modern navigation, DI and modularization).

- Lead the design and delivery of platform capabilities such as connectivity, background execution, Digital Key, auth and vehicle state, often across team and site boundaries.

- Act as the Android platform expert in tech design reviews and gated code reviews for concurrency, persistence and performance, within agreed turnaround targets.

- Turn review criteria into automated checks: lint rules, architecture tests, CI gates and templates.

- Own app health: startup time, app size, crash-free rate, ANRs, jank and background battery impact, with budgets that feature teams can see and stay inside.

- Own Android build, CI/CD, signing, release infrastructure and observability, and keep the OS, toolchain and libraries current.

- Write and maintain in-repo platform documentation (architecture decisions, guidebooks, onboarding) that both engineers and AI agents can use.

- Lead incident triage and fixes for platform-layer defects, and take part in the mobile on-call rotation.

- Mentor engineers on the platform and feature teams, and influence Android practice across the organization through the architecture forum.