Lead Android Engineer

Role Description

We’re hiring a Lead Android Engineer to set the technical direction for Future’s Android products and build the experiences our members use every day.

You’ll lead work across our phone and Wear OS apps, shaping core journeys such as:

• Onboarding
• Coach messaging
• Scheduling
• Guided workouts
• Progress tracking
• Health-data integration
• Video calls

This is a hands-on role where you’ll move between product details and system architecture, write production code, guide technical decisions, and help other engineers do their best work.

What You’ll Own

• Member Experience: Lead Android implementation for experiences that connect members with their coaches and help them follow through on their plans. Build polished, accessible interfaces with Jetpack Compose and Future’s design system.
• Android Architecture: Set direction for a multi-module Kotlin codebase built around Compose, coroutines and flows, dependency injection, and unidirectional state. Improve module boundaries, data ownership, navigation, and offline behavior as the product grows.
• Connected Health and Wearables: Guide the systems that connect Future with Wear OS, Health Connect, heart-rate data, sensors, and the Android device lifecycle. Protect member data and design for intermittent connectivity.
• Reliability and Performance: Own app startup, responsiveness, media playback, foreground services, background work, real-time calls, and data synchronization. Use crash, performance, and release telemetry to find problems before members encounter them.
• Engineering Excellence: Set expectations for code quality, testing, observability, and maintainability. Strengthen unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end coverage with JUnit, Robolectric, Espresso, and Appium.
• Delivery and Release Quality: Improve Gradle builds, GitHub Actions, Fastlane automation, and Google Play delivery. Help the team ship often without trading away stability.
• Team Leadership: Lead the Android team through technical planning, project execution, design discussions, pairing, and code review. Keep engineers aligned on priorities, decisions, and delivery risks.
• AI-Assisted Development: Use coding agents and AI tools to speed up exploration, implementation, testing, and review. Apply engineering judgment to validate their output before it reaches members.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional Android engineering experience, including ownership of complex consumer applications.
• Deep Kotlin knowledge and strong command of Jetpack Compose, coroutines, Flows, dependency injection, and Android lifecycle behavior.
• Experience leading architecture work in a large or modular Android codebase.
• Shipped and supported applications through Google Play.
• Understanding of performance, offline state, background execution, media playback, permissions, and device fragmentation.
• Strong testing habits across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
• Ability to debug across UI, networking, persistence, services, devices, and CI.
• Experience leading complex projects from planning through launch, partnering with product and design while managing scope, dependencies, risks, and delivery.
• Operated at lead scope, regardless of title.
• Use of AI coding tools in development workflow and knowledge of how to verify their output.

Working Style

• Cares about interaction quality, accessibility, performance, and the small details members notice.
• Makes architectural decisions based on product needs and operating constraints.
• Raises concerns early and brings possible solutions.
• Shares context, invites feedback, and helps other engineers grow.
• Takes ownership from product discovery through production support.

Nice to Have

• Experience building Wear OS applications or working with the Wearable Data Layer.
• Experience with Health Connect, health sensors, or Bluetooth devices.
• Familiarity with HIPAA and other laws and regulations that apply to health products and services.
• Experience with Media3, CameraX, foreground services, or real-time audio and video.
• Experience designing offline-capable applications with Room, WorkManager, and background synchronization.
• Experience with fitness, health, coaching, or other personalized consumer products.
• Experience evolving a design system across a large Compose application.

Benefits

• Salary range: $190,000-$230,000 / year + equity.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance + tax savings accounts.
• 401(k) plan.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Health and fitness monthly stipend contributes to overall wellbeing, with access to a mental health platform, reimbursement for medical travel, and an annual learning & development stipend.
• Remote First: Employment eligible to employees located anywhere in the continental US. No travel required.
• Meaningful equity package.
• Flexible PTO to rest, recharge, and take care of life outside of work.
• Annual budget for courses, conferences, coaching, and tools that help you grow in your craft.
• Enjoy our platform for free.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Future

We are committed to building a future where every member of our community is healthy, cared for, and advancing forward together. Future is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, civil or family status, disability, or race.