Senior Android SDK Engineer
Canary Technologies
Software Engineering
United States · Remote
Posted on Nov 7, 2025
We’re looking for a Senior Android SDK Engineer to build mobile SDKs enabling large hotel brands and enterprise customers to embed Canary’s platform into their own apps. You’ll also contribute to our first‑party mobile apps used daily by hotel staff across the globe. The role blends product-minded engineering, excellent developer experience design, and hands-on ownership of performant, reliable mobile code at scale. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Customer teams to ship high-quality experiences that are easy to integrate, secure, and delightful to use.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of Canary’s Android SDKs that power guest and staff experiences for large hotel brands
- Create best‑in‑class developer experiences: clear APIs, robust samples, documentation, and upgrade paths
- Build features and UI components for our first‑party staff apps with a focus on reliability and performance
- Partner with Product and Design to scope, sequence, and ship customer‑impacting work
- Collaborate with Backend and Platform teams to define mobile‑server contracts and observability
- Establish SDK versioning, release processes, and semantic change management
- Improve code quality through testing, automation, and thoughtful architecture
- Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers
- Drive operational excellence including monitoring, logging, crash analytics, and on‑call readiness
Qualifications
- 5+ years building mobile applications or SDKs, with deep expertise in Android and Kotlin
- Proven experience designing, shipping, and supporting public SDKs consumed by external developers
- Strong grasp of API design, modular architecture, semantic versioning, and backward‑compatibility strategies
- Proficiency with Android fundamentals: networking, concurrency, persistence, security, and performance optimization
- Experience with build systems and package managers such as Gradle, Maven, or similar CI/CD tooling
- Quality mindset: unit and UI testing, automation, crash analytics, and observability best practices
- Excellent written communication skills to produce samples and docs that make integration fast and painless
- Self‑starter who thrives in ambiguity and partners closely with Product to deliver business impact
Bonus
- Swift/iOS experience or cross‑platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter)
- Backend familiarity in Python and cloud services such as AWS
- Experience building for enterprise customers and handling release management at scale