Android Developer

Peraton

. Design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Colorado • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $86,000 - $138,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates advanced expertise in Kotlin and Android development, with a strong focus on building high-quality applications using modern frameworks like Jetpack Compose. Proven ability to lead technical direction, mentor teams, and ensure robust testing and performance standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Advanced Kotlin SkillsJetpack Compose Production ExperienceREST or GraphQL API ExperienceStrong Testing and Debugging HabitsExperience Shipping Through Google Play

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Hard Skills

KotlinAndroid SDK FundamentalsJetpack LibrariesCoroutinesReactive State ManagementUnit TestingIntegration TestingUI TestingEnd-to-End TestingMobile CI/CD

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationVerbal CommunicationMentoring OthersInfluencing Team Practices

Tools & Technologies

XcodeSwiftSwiftUIUIKitGoogle PlayMobile Security StandardsAccessibility Standards

Certifications & Qualifications

Public Trust Clearance

Industry Keywords

Consumer Mobile ProductsSubscription ServicesHealthcare ApplicationsFintech SolutionsMarketplace Applications

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidGraphQLiOSKotlinSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and evolve high-quality Android experiences using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks
Own complex Android features from discovery through post-release monitoring
Set technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management
Write technical designs and identify tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans
Build accessible, responsive interfaces with product design and research
Improve unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end automated testing
Strengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence
Partner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics
Collaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards
Review code, mentor engineers, and improve technical decisions and team practices
Participate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of mobile delivery

Requirements

What you’ll need

5 years with BS/BA; 9 years with a high school diploma
Advanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management
Production experience with Jetpack Compose, including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views
Demonstrated ability to make sound architecture decisions and evolve a mature codebase safely over time
Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications
Strong testing and debugging habits, including use of crash, performance, and product telemetry to guide decisions
Experience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues
Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineering partners
A record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence and example
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Hands-on experience reading and making scoped changes in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or UIKit
Familiarity with Xcode, iOS app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, testing, code signing, and App Store release workflows
Ability to compare Android and iOS implementation tradeoffs
Experience contributing to shared mobile conventions, API contracts, design systems, analytics taxonomies, or cross-platform feature parity
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production Android applications (preferred)
Experience in a consumer, subscription, healthcare, fintech, marketplace, or other reliability-sensitive mobile product (preferred)
Knowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform or another selective code-sharing approach (preferred)
Experience with mobile CI/CD, build performance, feature flags, experimentation, and automated release tooling (preferred)
Familiarity with mobile security, privacy, accessibility standards, and threat modeling (preferred)
Experience leading migrations such as Views to Compose, monolith to modules, or legacy asynchronous code to coroutines (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Potential eligibility for overtime
Potential eligibility for shift differential
Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus