Join Verkada as a Senior Android Engineer to build a reliable mobile platform for a leading cloud-managed physical security company.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 17 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 17 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Maintain and evolve Native Component Library
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain high-performance networking stack
- Implement low-level protocols
- Act as a technical consultant to product teams
Must have
- 6+ years of professional Android development
- Deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK
- Strong experience with mobile CI/CD
- Deep understanding of the networking stack
- Hands-on experience with Bluetooth (BLE) and NFC
- Expert proficiency in Jetpack Compose
Nice to have
- Experience managing Google Play Store release cycle
AI in the day-to-day
Verkada integrates AI to enhance physical security solutions.
Requirements
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Android Engineer focuses on enhancing the mobile platform's core systems, ensuring reliability and scalability for product teams. Key skills include expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and mobile CI/CD practices, alongside a strong understanding of networking protocols and hardware integration. This position is ideal for seasoned developers with over six years of experience who are adept at tackling complex technical challenges. The Mobile Core team operates in a collaborative environment, working closely with hardware and firmware teams to drive impactful solutions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Verkada's careers page October 3, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Verkada: San Mateo, CA United States.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Mobile roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts at or below all 16 comparable senior mobile roles in United States that list Kotlin we track (median $196,000 across 13 companies). See Kotlin salary trends
- Kotlin appears in 47.6% of 42 comparable senior mobile roles in United States; BLE appears in 2.4% of 42 comparable senior mobile roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Verkada lists $150,000–$265,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 6 years of relevant experience for this Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Android SDK, BLE, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, NFC, OkHttp.
- Does Verkada sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Verkada targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Android Engineer - Mobile Platform & Systems role at Verkada.
From the original posting
Who We Are
About the Role
Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security. As our ecosystem grows, our Mobile Core team is pivoting to a high-leverage Platform model.
The Mobile Core team provides the underlying systems, frameworks, and components used by product teams across the company to build high-performance mobile experiences. In this role, you will be a key technical contributor "Native Systems Layer"—ensuring that our mobile foundation is reliable, scalable, and easy for other teams to build upon. You will also focus on the specialized native challenges that cannot be solved with web technology, ensuring the Verkada mobile experience remains fast, secure, and deeply integrated with the Android OS.
What You’ll Do
- Native UI Platform: Maintain and evolve our existing Native Component Library built with Jetpack Compose. You will ensure these "Lego bricks" are scalable, accessible, and easily consumable by other product teams to ensure a consistent, fluid experience.
- Platform Infrastructure & DX: Elevate the "Developer Experience" for Android. This includes optimizing our CI/CD pipelines, expanding test automation strategies, and hardening an automated, multi-team release process.
- Network & Reliability Layer: Maintain a high-performance networking stack that handles the complexities of offline-first synchronization, intelligent caching, and secure data transit between native services and the cloud.
- Systems & Hardware Integration: Own the implementation of low-level protocols (BLE, NFC, and custom Wi-Fi handshakes) that allow phones to talk to our physical hardware securely and reliably.
- The Native-Web Bridge: Optimize the type-safe communication layer that allows dynamic web-based components to interact securely with native device sensors, secure enclaves, and core system logic.
- Architecture Evolution: Act as a technical consultant to other product teams, evaluating new patterns (such as Server-Driven UI) to determine how we can best balance native performance with global engineering velocity.
What You Bring
- 6+ years of professional Android development with a deep mastery of Kotlin and the Android SDK.
- Infrastructure & Tooling: Strong experience with mobile CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bitrise) and a "test-first" mentality. You enjoy building tools that make other engineers more productive.
- Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of the networking stack (OkHttp, Retrofit, Protobuf) and experience handling unreliable network conditions at scale.
- Hardware & Connectivity: Hands-on experience with Bluetooth (BLE), NFC, or the nuances of Android background execution limits.
- Modern UI Mastery: Expert proficiency in Jetpack Compose and experience scaling shared UI libraries across multiple teams.
- Release Engineering: Experience managing the complexity of the Google Play Store release cycle for apps with high deployment frequency and multiple contributors.
Why Join Us
- Force Multiplier: You aren't just shipping features; you are building the foundation. Every improvement you make to the platform is a win for dozens of other engineers and thousands of customers.
- The "Hard" Problems: You get to focus on the deep-tech challenges that web technology can't touch: hardware handshakes, battery-efficient backgrounding, and high-performance infrastructure.
- Direct Impact: Work at a company with proven product-market fit, where your work directly protects people and assets worldwide.
- Onsite Collaboration: Partner daily with hardware and firmware teams in an environment that values technical excellence and fast iteration.
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
Annual Pay Range
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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