Staff Android Engineer

Staff Android Engineer

Full-Time 80000 - 100000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
AlphaSense

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Own and evolve Android architecture, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure mobile experiences.
  • Company: AlphaSense, founded in 2011, is headquartered in New York City with over 2,000 employees globally.
  • Benefits: Join a diverse team that values innovation and offers a dynamic work environment for growth.
  • Other info: Experience with enterprise mobile environments and AI-enabled engineering systems preferred.
  • Why this job: This role offers significant architectural ownership and long-term impact on product quality.
  • Qualifications: Deep expertise in modern Android architecture and experience shaping mobile platform contracts required.

The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.

About AlphaSense

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Team

Our diverse Product & Engineering team values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous improvement of our platform. We offer a dynamic work environment where employees can grow and thrive while working on cutting‑edge technology that shapes the future of AI and search. At AlphaSense, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives are critical to our success. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.

About the Role

AlphaSense has spent more than a decade helping professionals find, trust, and synthesize market intelligence. With SuperAnalyst, we are expanding that foundation into continuous, decision‑ready execution: workflows that monitor change, update outputs, and surface what matters as situations evolve. Mobile is a critical part of that future because the moments that matter do not only happen when customers are sitting at a desktop. Android is an important surface for that future because continuous, decision‑ready workflows need to feel fast, secure, and reliable across phones, foldables, and managed enterprise environments.

As a Staff Android Engineer, you will own and evolve the Android architecture and mobile‑facing foundations that shape product quality across customer workflows. You will work from deep Android expertise while shaping the technical decisions, validation practices, and delivery patterns that help teams build reliable native experiences with confidence. This is a hands‑on Staff role with significant architectural ownership, platform‑level leverage, and long‑term product impact. You will help teams move faster while improving delivery predictability and preserving the quality, reliability, and trust that enterprise mobile experiences require, including by shaping the AI‑enabled development, validation, and testing practices that make Android delivery safer and more confident.

What You'll Do

  • Own and evolve the Android platform foundation: Define the Android architecture, modular boundaries, and native engineering patterns that make AlphaSense experiences fast, reliable, secure, and easier to evolve as the product grows.
  • Lead through hands‑on Android system design: Turn complex product and platform problems into durable production architecture grounded in deep Android expertise and modern Android platform practices.
  • Improve reliability and delivery confidence: Shape how Android work is designed, reviewed, tested, shipped, and operated, including the automation, observability, rollout practices, and AI‑enabled validation needed to move quickly with confidence.
  • Create clear mobile‑facing system contracts: Partner with iOS, backend, product, and design to clarify API behavior, ownership boundaries, and platform expectations that protect native product quality without pushing hidden complexity into Android.
  • Raise mobile‑system judgment across teams: Turn complex mobile‑system work into reusable standards and stronger engineering judgment for the teams building native experiences.

What We're Looking For

Required

  • Deep expertise in modern production Android architecture, with a track record of setting technical standards for a platform, product area, or native mobile domain.
  • Ability to represent mobile platform principles from a deep Android base, with enough iOS fluency to shape cross‑functional architecture decisions where backend, web, and product choices affect identity, reliability, release quality, observability, and native product outcomes.
  • Experience shaping mobile‑facing platform contracts, API behavior, or backend service boundaries that improve product quality across native client experiences.
  • Ability to read, debug, and make targeted contributions to backend systems when needed to unblock mobile‑facing outcomes.
  • Experience shaping AI‑enabled engineering systems that improve validation, product quality, and delivery confidence for Android and broader mobile outcomes.
  • Strong reliability and release‑quality judgment across production mobile systems, with experience raising quality standards for a platform or product area.
  • Track record making engineers around you better by turning complex mobile‑system work into clear standards, reusable patterns, and stronger technical judgment across teams.
  • Excellent product judgment and communication skills, including the ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and align teams around durable technical decisions.

Preferred

  • Experience building Android product experiences across varied device and form‑factor contexts, such as foldables, wearables, Android Auto, or other platform‑native surfaces.
  • Experience with enterprise mobile environments where identity, device management, compliance, or security constraints shape architecture, including MDM/EMM.
  • Experience shaping mobile design‑system foundations and design‑to‑code workflows that improve consistency, accessibility, development velocity, and AI‑assisted UI generation across native platforms.

AlphaSense is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non‑merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Staff Android Engineer employer: AlphaSense

AlphaSense is committed to empowering professionals through AI-driven market intelligence. Located in New York City, the company offers health insurance and promotes an inclusive workplace. The Product & Engineering team focuses on innovation and collaboration, making it an exciting place to grow your career.

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We think you need these skills to ace Staff Android Engineer

Android Architecture
Mobile System Design
API Behaviour
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Backend Systems Debugging
AI-Enabled Engineering Systems
Reliability and Release Quality Judgment