Senior Android Engineer
Senior Android Engineer at Instacart — San francisco, CA, US
- Company: Instacart
- Location: San francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
Responsibilities:
You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and responsibility for managing things directly
Collaboration with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution
Shipping high quality solutions with urgency
Championing Android: educating colleagues about subtleties & unique capabilities of the platform and leveraging them when building new features
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science is preferred (but not required) with 2+ years of software development experience and at least 3 years of Android app development experience
Strong development skills in Java and with Android SDK, and good general programming and algorithm skills
Exposure to Kotlin (although experience with Kotlin is strongly preferred)
Experience with RXJava
A strong sense of ownership
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Desired:
Dagger
Retrofit
Data Driven mindset
Automated testing experience