Android Engineer

At Medal, we’re redefining the way gamers connect, share, and relive their greatest in-game moments. Our platform makes it easy to clip, edit, and share gaming moments.

We're a fast-moving team backed by top-tier investors. Our culture is builder-first: we move quickly, make decisions with creators in mind, and aren’t afraid to challenge conventions when it improves the product.

We’re looking for a Senior/Lead Android Engineer to take our mobile app to the next level. You’ll work alongside a small, talented group of engineers and designers to craft the Medal experience on Android—from real-time editing tools to content discovery and notifications. You’ll help shape our mobile architecture, influence product direction, and work on experiences that are seen by millions of gamers.

If you love shipping polished mobile experiences, obsess over user interaction, and want to work on a product that lives at the intersection of social and gaming, this is for you.

• Own major parts of the Android codebase and contribute to architecture decisions

• Build features used by millions of gamers, from sharing workflows to profile pages and chat

• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, backend, and product to ship fast without sacrificing quality

• Advocate for user experience, performance, and accessibility

• Help mentor junior engineers and uphold a high bar for code quality and engineering culture

• Stay on top of Android best practices and help us keep the tech stack modern and efficient

• Work on-site at our NYC office 5 days a week

• 5+ years of experience shipping Android apps

• Expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, and AndroidX

• Strong grasp of app architectures (MVVM or MVI), navigation, theming, and Material 3

• Experience with complex real-time apps, video/media-heavy workflows, or social applications

• Obsession with the quality of code and interfaces

• Interest in product and taking ownership of broad product areas (likes to run experiments, talk to users, and use the product avidly)

• Practiced at using analytics, A/B testing, user feedback, bug/crash reports to inform development

• Experience using REST (Retrofit/OkHttp) and working with backend teams to accomplish product goals

• A love for gaming, however you define it!

• Excellent written and verbal communication; strong async/sync collaboration skills

• Can develop on both Android and iOS

• History as a Medal user – share a clip or your profile!

• Deep media stack expertise: ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, CameraX, low-latency pipelines, background uploads, and offline sync

• Performance tooling: Baseline Profiles, Macrobenchmark, Startup/Memory profiling, frame rendering analysis

• Experience with Push/FCM, App Widgets, Shortcuts, and Play Integrity/Android app signing & release management

• CI/CD experience for Android (Gradle, GitHub Actions/CircleCI, Play Console tracks)

• Language & UI: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material, Navigation

• Concurrency & DI: Coroutines/Flow, Koin, Hilt (or Dagger)

• Media: ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, CameraX, WorkManager for background processing

• Networking & Data: Retrofit/OkHttp, Room (or SQLDelight), Proto/JSON, Paging 3

• Quality & Perf: Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics, Baseline Profiles, Macrobenchmark, StrictMode

• Tooling: Gradle, Android Studio, Postman, Figma, Linear

• Work on cutting-edge mobile experiences at the intersection of gaming and social

• Join a passionate team that values ownership, craftsmanship, and velocity

• Competitive salary, equity options, comprehensive health insurance, and 401k

• Ship features that touch millions of players and shape the future of gaming culture