Patreon is looking to hire a Staff Android Engineer to support their mission of funding the creative class by building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy.
Requirements
Expert-level Kotlin and deep knowledge of Compose; comfortable refactoring large codebases to modern patterns.
Experience building and maintaining a design system — including theming, typography, motion, and accessibility states — is desired.
In-depth understanding of Android accessibility APIs and current WCAG guidelines.
Comfortable reviewing and shaping backend API contracts; able to reason about latency, payload size, and maintainability over time.
Experience with git, modern CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
Responsibilities
Elevate our design system. Own the architecture, implementation, and ongoing evolution of our shared Swift component library so product teams can ship beautiful, unified experiences at speed.
Champion accessibility. Work closely with our Design team to address accessibility issues and ensure WCAG 2.2 compliance.
Guide strategic migrations. Lead multi-phase initiatives such as replacing our local data store, introducing modern view patterns, and expanding our adoption of SwiftUI.
Set the bar for engineering quality. Review engineering design proposals for new features, help shape backend API contracts, and run thoughtful code reviews that level-up engineers across the org.
Influence the platform roadmap. Work closely with design, product, and leadership to translate long-term business goals into a clear, scalable technical vision for Android.
Mentor and multiply. Provide hands-on coaching, documentation, and golden path implementations that grow the entire mobile team so they can deliver with confidence.
Other
6+ years building consumer-grade Android apps, with at least 1 year operating in a Staff role.
Excellent communication skills—you write crisp design docs, give actionable feedback, and can influence without authority across teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent
This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.
If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway.
