Senior Android Engineer

About the role

Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps — an AI-driven consumer platform where people create, remix, share, and play interactive content instantly.

We are a Series A company backed by Khosla, a16z and Mayfield, with $30M raised to date. We are remote-first across all positions and are looking for ambitious, AI-native builders who want to help shape the next generation of consumer social products.

Here are Sekai’s download links:

- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.sekai.app&hl=en_US

- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sekai-create-remix-play/id6504506653

About the Role

- We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to build the native Android foundation for Sekai’s mobile product.

- This is an Android-first role focused on the core app shell, native platform architecture, product quality, release reliability, and hybrid integration with React Native, Flutter, and web-based experiences.

- The right person has shipped real consumer Android apps, understands the Android ecosystem deeply, and can make pragmatic architecture decisions in a fast-moving startup environment.

- You should be comfortable working close to the OS while partnering closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile teams to build a fast, polished, mobile-first consumer experience.

Responsibilities

- Build and own Sekai’s native Android foundation using Kotlin, Android SDK, and modern Android architecture

- Design and improve the Android app shell, navigation, lifecycle handling, session management, permissions, push notifications, deeplinks, and release workflows

- Create clean integration points for product modules built in native Android, React Native, Flutter, or WebView

- Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Mobile engineers to ship high-quality consumer mobile experiences

- Improve Android app reliability, responsiveness, maintainability, and production quality across real-world devices

- Build observability and debugging workflows for crashes, app health, release quality, and user-impacting issues

- Define engineering patterns for native modules, cross-stack communication, hybrid screen ownership, testing, CI/CD, and rollout

- Use modern AI development tools to move faster while maintaining strong engineering quality

Qualifications

- 5+ years of professional Android engineering experience

- Strong hands-on experience with Kotlin, Android SDK, and production Android app development

- Experience building or owning major parts of a consumer-facing Android app

- Strong understanding of Android architecture, app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, networking, persistence, dependency management, and modularization

- Experience building high-quality mobile UI using Jetpack Compose and/or the traditional Android View system