Software Engineer - Android (Technical Leadership)

Meta

$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of programming experience or 8+ years with a PhD in a relevant field
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • Proven ability to drive large engineering projects across functions
  • Experience mentoring and influencing stakeholders at the executive level
  • Strong background in utilizing data analysis to resolve technical challenges
  • Track record of developing multi-year roadmaps connecting short-term and long-term projects

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical direction to enhance organizational efficiency
  • Communicate complex systems and features clearly to diverse audiences
  • Identify and assess technology trends to support new developments
  • Collaborate with leaders to enhance team and organizational performance
  • Uncover new opportunities for the organization and influence prioritization
  • Lead the technical vision for significant cross-company initiatives
  • Collect and synthesize requirements to create an effective features roadmap
  • Identify and resolve scalability issues, reducing technical debt

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative work environment with leadership opportunities
  • Involvement in large-scale projects affecting millions of users
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies, including AI
  • Flexibility in adapting and influencing technical strategies
  • Focus on ethical practices in AI and technology utilization
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
• Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
• Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
• Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
• Lead long term technical vision and roadmap for large cross-company efforts
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt

Minimum Qualifications
• Experience driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
• Experience mentoring/influencing executive stakeholders across organizations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
• Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which short-term projects ladder to the long-term mission
• 12+ years of programming experience in a relevant language OR 8+ years experience with a PhD
• Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with multithreading programming and mobile memory management
• 4+ years of experience building Android applications in Java using Android SDK
• Shipped at least one large-scale product to production, supporting millions of active users
• Experience building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit testing techniques
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

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