Senior Software Engineer, Android — AI-Native Client Platform
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Senior Software Engineer designing and shipping Android systems and new 0-to-1 products, driving modularization and AI-assisted development to accelerate feature delivery.
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About NewsBreak
Founded in 2015, NewsBreak is the Content Intelligence platform shaping the future content economy. With over 40 million monthly active users, our flagship platform delivers highly personalized local news and information powered by advanced AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.
Recognized by Fast Company as #32 on the Top Workplaces for Innovators, we're proud to be Great Place to Work® certified and home to a dynamic team of technologists, product innovators, and business leaders who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges at scale.
Together, we reached unicorn status in 2021, and we remain committed to continuing this high-growth trajectory with the right team to fulfill our mission: building the infrastructure layer for content intelligence.
If you’re inspired to dream big, innovate fast, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, visit www.newsbreak.com/about
We’re rebuilding how NewsBreak ships mobile software. An in-house auto-dev bot already lands reviewed PRs daily — most merged client PRs start from an agent. Engineers here don’t just write features: they design the architecture, conventions, and guardrails that let humans and AI build together safely, across our flagship app and a matrix of new products (Lite, short-drama, local). This is a builder role with a dual mandate: roughly half your time advances the platform, half ships business impact — and the point is that the first keeps shrinking the cost of the second.
- Architect Android systems — from our flagship app to 0-to-1 new products — so every codebase stays legible to both engineers and AI agents.
- Drive modularization: extract shared capabilities so they ship once and run across apps.
- Ship user-facing features end-to-end — growth, feed, and new-app product needs — through the same AI-assisted workflow you’re improving: your platform work is measured by how much faster these ship.
- Set the quality bar for AI-assisted development: review standards, safety nets, release gates.
- Solve the hardest performance and production problems, and turn what you learn into playbooks the whole team builds on.
- 5+ years building Android apps at scale; deep Kotlin, Jetpack Compose.
- You’ve owned app-level architecture and lived with the consequences.
- You verify before you ship — including (especially) AI-generated code.
- Bonus: cross-platform experience (Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native) — our app matrix ships on both platforms.
- Bonus: developer tooling / CI quality gates that made a team measurably faster.
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