Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Android

Suno

$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience shipping production Android apps
  • Advanced expertise in Kotlin and Android development best practices
  • Strong ability to create fluid, polished animations from design prototypes
  • Deep understanding of Android's unique capabilities for media-rich applications
  • Proven track record in optimizing performance across UI, memory, and network efficiency
  • Detail-oriented with a strong focus on user experience
  • Ability to work with ambiguity and prioritize effectively

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the Suno Android app across various features
  • Create foundational libraries for interactive media experiences
  • Drive feature development from conception to launch and beyond
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to shape app direction
  • Optimize performance, responsiveness, and user delight
  • Monitor app health through instrumentation and real user data
  • Set technical direction and architectural patterns for the Android team
  • Mentor engineers and enhance code quality and engineering culture

Benefits

  • Company equity package
  • 401(k) with 3% employer match & Roth 401(k) options
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 11 paid holidays plus unlimited PTO and sick time
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Creative education stipend
  • Generous commuter allowance
  • In-office lunch provided five days a week
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for early members of our Android team at the Senior and Staff levels. These aren't maintenance roles - you'll help define the architecture and experience of a product that's genuinely changing how the world makes music.

You'll work directly alongside the founding team, shaping technical and product decisions from the ground up. The Suno Android app is far more than a music player: it's a real-time AI creation studio, a social platform for sharing and discovering original music, and a showcase for some of the most advanced generative audio technology ever shipped to consumers at scale.

At the Senior level, you'll own major features end-to-end, drive engineering quality, and contribute to architectural decisions. At the Staff level, you'll set the technical direction for the Android platform, mentor the team, and define the foundations that scale us to 10x our current user base and beyond.

Our Android app has earned over 1.6 million reviews and a 4.8 rating on Google Play, with 10M+ downloads - a generative audio workstation in every user's pocket, used by creators worldwide. The Android team is central to how people experience Suno: music creation, discovery, playback, social features, and real-time AI inference all live on this platform. If you care about building something that feels native, responsive, and genuinely delightful on Android, and you want to do it in one of the most exciting problem spaces in tech, this is the role.

What You'll Do
  • Design and build Suno's Android app across creation, discovery, playback, and social experiences
  • Create foundational abstractions and libraries for performant, highly interactive media experiences
  • Own feature development from zero to one and beyond - scoping, shipping, and iterating post-launch
  • Collaborate closely with product and design to shape the feel, flow, and direction of the app
  • Optimize for performance, responsiveness, and delight - from render times to audio latency to micro-interactions
  • Instrument and monitor the app's health, and iterate rapidly based on real user data
  • Set the technical direction for the Android platform and define architectural patterns the team builds on
  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for code quality, abstractions, and engineering culture


What You'll Need

Required
  • 5+ years shipping production Android apps
  • Advanced expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks and best practices
  • Experience building fluid, polished animations and translating design prototypes into robust, production-grade code
  • A keen understanding of what's distinct about Android - and how to leverage that in a media-rich application
  • Strong sense for performance: you profile, benchmark, and fix across UI rendering, memory, and network efficiency
  • An obsession with great user experience - you care about the details that most engineers skip
  • Comfort with ambiguity: you can scope work, make tradeoffs, and ship without a fully-defined spec
  • A collaborative spirit and strong communication - you work fluidly with designers, PMs, and backend teams

Strong Plusses
  • Prior experience with ExoPlayer and Media3 for audio/video playback
  • Experience working with audio streaming pipelines or real-time audio on Android
  • Experience with social product features: feeds, follow graphs, notifications, publishing flows
  • Background designing or consuming mobile-first APIs in close collaboration with backend engineers
  • Track record building 01 consumer products at a fast-moving startup
  • Technical leadership or mentorship experience (especially important for Staff candidates)
  • A genuine love of music - listening, creating, or performing


Perks & Benefits
  • Company Equity Package
  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO with HSA & FSA options)
  • 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Creative Education Stipend
  • Generous Commuter Allowance
  • In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)


Additional Notes
  • This role is a 5 day a week in-office role in our Chelsea, New York City office.
  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.


Life at Suno: https://suno.com/about

Series C Announcement: https://suno.com/blog/series-c-announcement

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