Android Engineer III, App Platforms
Wayfair
Responsibilities
Primary Duties
- Lead the development of critical frameworks used by all feature teams, including our Networking Framework (Apollo/GraphQL), Logging, and Feature Toggle systems.
- Champion UI consistency by maintaining and upgrading our reusable Design System components, specifically focusing on the adoption and architecture of Jetpack Compose.
- Contribute to app stability by enhancing our Testing Frameworks, specifically tooling for Unit, UI (Espresso), and Snapshot testing execution.
- Lead the technical implementation of privacy standards, including Google Play Data Safety requirements and GDPR tracking policies.
- Assist in maintaining our Gradle build logic and CI/CD pipeline (Buildkite). You will specifically help monitor and manage our Merge Trains/GitHub Merge Queues to ensure code merges remain unblocked and efficient.
- Identify opportunities to automate workflows using local tooling (scripts, plugins) to increase developer productivity.
- Collaborate with the team on release reporting and troubleshooting issues with the release process to maintain our weekly release cadence.
Experience Requirements
Required
5+ years of professional Android software development experience.
5 years of experience
Required Skills
Technical Skills
Full Job Description
The App Platforms team plays a pivotal role in the seamless functioning of Wayfair's suite of 10+ native Android apps. We act as a force multiplier for the rest of the mobile organization. While we own the "paved road" infrastructure that ensures efficient builds and releases on a high-velocity weekly cadence, our primary mission is providing the core libraries, frameworks, and architecture that feature teams rely on to build delightful user experiences.
We are seeking an experienced Android Engineer III who is passionate about "how things work under the hood". Unlike a typical product role focused on customer-facing features, this role lives at the boundary of Mobile Engineering.
You will spend the majority of your time architecting and evolving shared codebases, from Design Systems to Networking layers, while also providing critical support for the CI/CD tooling (Gradle/Buildkite/GitHub) that delivers our apps.
What You'll Do
Architect & Evolve Libraries: Lead the development of critical frameworks used by all feature teams, including our Networking Framework (Apollo/GraphQL), Logging, and Feature Toggle systems.
Design System Engineering: Champion UI consistency by maintaining and upgrading our reusable Design System components, specifically focusing on the adoption and architecture of Jetpack Compose.
Testing Strategy: Contribute to app stability by enhancing our Testing Frameworks, specifically tooling for Unit, UI (Espresso), and Snapshot testing execution.
Privacy & Compliance: Lead the technical implementation of privacy standards, including Google Play Data Safety requirements and GDPR tracking policies.
Build System Support: Assist in maintaining our Gradle build logic and CI/CD pipeline (Buildkite). You will specifically help monitor and manage our Merge Trains/GitHub Merge Queues to ensure code merges remain unblocked and efficient.
Tooling Automation: Identify opportunities to automate workflows using local tooling (scripts, plugins) to increase developer productivity.
Release Operations: Collaborate with the team on release reporting and troubleshooting issues with the release process to maintain our weekly release cadence.
What You'll Bring
Experience: 5+ years of professional Android software development experience.
High-Velocity Background: Proven experience working on large-scale mobile applications that ship on a weekly (or faster) release cadence.
Technical Mastery: Fluency in Kotlin and Java, with a deep understanding of architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean) and Android SDK internals.
Efficiency Mindset: Experience leveraging AI-driven development tools (e.g., Cursor, Junie.ai) to accelerate coding workflows, refactoring, and documentation.
Platform Curiosity: An interest in deep-diving into how apps are built, not just how they look. You are curious about build tools (Gradle, Android Studio) and dependency management.
Tooling Familiarity: Experience or strong interest in CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins) and scripting languages (Bash, Python, or Ruby).
Nice to Have
Experience with GraphQL (Apollo).
Deep experience with Jetpack Compose architecture.
Experience configuring and optimizing GitHub Merge Queues for large teams.
Experience writing custom Gradle plugins or scripts to automate manual tasks.
Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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