Senior Software Engineer, Mobile

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

About the Role:

Mixpanel’s mobile SDKs power event tracking and rich analytics across thousands of mobile applications. Our SDKs are critical to enabling cross-platform behavioral analytics. We’re expanding our small but mighty mobile team to build the next generation of our SDK offerings, starting with Session Replay on mobile.

We’re looking for a talented Android engineer (with bonus points for cross-platform experience) who’s passionate about building robust, high-performance libraries used by thousands of developers and millions of users. This is a high-impact role where you’ll own key parts of the SDK stack and help shape the future of our mobile analytics offerings.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build features such as Session Replay, Autocapture, and Feature Flags into SDKs for Android and other mobile platforms
• Develop and maintain Mixpanel’s suite of mobile SDKs, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability across platforms
• Lead technical projects end-to-end, from design through rollout and maintenance
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and GTM to define and prioritize initiatives
• Help drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for mobile analytics
• Explore new mobile frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter, Unity) and extend SDK support accordingly
• Balance technical excellence, user experience, and business impact
• Navigate ambiguity, solve complex problems, and help shape product direction

What We’re Looking For:

• Expertise in Android development (Kotlin or Java), especially in building SDKs or developer tools
• Experience shipping libraries or frameworks used by external developers - we love folks who think like platform engineers
• Bonus: Experience with iOS development (Swift / Objective-C), React Native, Flutter, or Unity
• Bonus: Contributions to open source projects or public developer communities
• Deep knowledge of memory management, threading, and mobile system internals
• Strong debugging skills and an appreciation for writing safe, scalable, crash-free code
• Curiosity and initiative - you love figuring things out and diving into unfamiliar territory
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Culture Values

• Be Open: When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
• Customer Focus: Our customers’ success is our success
• Lead Change: Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
• Results Oriented: Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
• One Team: We can’t win without each other

Additional Resources 

• Engineering Life Page
• Mixpanel Engineering Blog 

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.