Senior Android Software Engineer

Overview

Remote Android Engineering Position

We are a small, focused startup looking for an experienced senior Android engineer to lead our mobile experience development. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of native Android and system-level work, with expertise in services, audio pipelines, and speech recognition.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement long-running foreground services for continuous speech recognition and audio capture.
• Leverage Android SpeechRecognizer APIs to handle robust RecognitionListener behavior, on-device / offline models, partial results, punctuation, and engine / package selection.
• Ensure resilient lifecycle behavior across process death, Doze / App Standby, and OEM quirks through proper process isolation, notification channels, and foreground services.
• Achieve efficient audio recording with attention to latency, buffering, acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, and storage management.
• Implement robust IPC patterns (Binder, Messenger, BroadcastReceiver) for communication between the service and app.
• Develop adaptive recovery strategies including automatic restart / backoff, memory / CPU monitoring, and graceful degradation across devices.
• Profile and optimize performance to minimize wakeups and reduce battery and memory footprint.

Must-have Experience

Nice-to-Have

Working Style

How to Apply

Send your CV, GitHub / Bitbucket, and a brief note describing :

Additional Details

We are excited to meet someone who loves working close to the metal on Android and enjoys squeezing maximum reliability and efficiency out of mobile devices.

This is a remote position with periodic in-person sessions required.

We offer flexible contract type (contract or full-time). We can provide test devices if needed.

An NDA may be required.

In a sentence : Native Android speech and service stack, keep it lean and resilient, and help us push the platform to its limits responsibly.

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