Director of Engineering, Android Platforms

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About the Role

As the Director of Engineering, Android Platforms, you will join an existing team that builds mobile, tablet, automotive, living room devices, and partner devices. You will bring hands-on experience to these platforms and work with our Principal client solutions engineers to help foster a culture of excellence in operations, engineering, and delivery. You will lean on your engineering leadership experience to continue team development and collaborative cross functional partnership. You will report to the Director of Engineering, Native Clients & Frameworks. This is a hybrid position based out of one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Dallas, TX.

About the Team

The Android development teams operate as independent delivery teams, owning their technical roadmaps and execution. Supporting millions of users across mobile, tablet, automotive, and living room devices, the teams are increasingly focused on enabling global expansion and delivering high-quality, localized experiences at scale. We collaborate closely with product, design, program management, video engineering, platform engineering, and service monetization to create scalable, flexible solutions. True to this company's collaborative spirit, we work across disciplines and client platforms to engineer experiences that resonate with fans worldwide.

About You

• You are the single owner of the Android architecture, responsible for ensuring its long-term scalability, reliability, and technical excellence
• You bring a strategic direction in building and scaling Android engineering teams with business impact in mind
• You can lead codebase unification efforts to streamline development and improve maintainability, and foster cross-team collaboration
• You thrive in both guiding people and driving strategies into application infrastructure and architecture
• You coach engineering managers and senior technical leaders, growing the next generation of Android leadership.
• You have 10+ years of relevant engineering experience and 5+ years in technical leadership roles
• You consistently form and grow high-performing, motivated engineering teams
• You set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and product reliability
• You are well versed in modern Android development tools and best practices
• You have successfully led global distributed teams while recognizing and nurturing talent
• You contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives and set technical direction that influences the broader engineering organization

Core Areas of Responsibility

• Drive alignment between Android engineering strategies and broader business objectives
• Define and execute Android development roadmaps that support scalable product growth
• Establish and evolve testing practices, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines
• Champion Android security principles and integrate best practices across the stack
• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient systems that meet performance and reliability goals
• Leverage data and metrics to guide application development and technical decision-making

Technology Skills

• Languages: Kotlin, Java
• Frameworks & Libraries: Jetpack libraries and other modern Android frameworks
• Performance: Deep understanding of performance metrics and tools to monitor and improve app performance

Why you will love working at this company

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Saving Account HSA program.
• Health care and dependent care FSA.
• 401(k) plan, with employer match.
• Employer paid commuter benefit.
• Support program for new parents.
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of this company’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.

Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA

$244,000 - $305,000 USD

About our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at this company. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

This company, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

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