Principal Android Engineer

Company Summary Echo Star  is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. Department Summary Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session. Enterprise Android deployments require robust architecture, reliable playback, and enterprise-grade observability across diverse device fleets. The Principal Android Engineer solves critical scale and stability challenges across the full Android stack, from low-level media playback engines to modular application frameworks.

As a thought leader and technical anchor, this role not only shapes the internal architecture but also drives outward-facing integration projects and aligns engineering deliverables with overarching business goals. This position establishes technical roadmaps, sets engineering standards, and optimizes release pipelines for mission-critical customer software. By integrating modern Android architectures and AI-assisted engineering workflows, the role ensures operational reliability and continuous system performance across all deployed hardware.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives)
Act as the technical anchor for the business, translating overarching company objectives into actionable engineering strategies that drive platform growth and market success.

Spearhead high-stakes, outward-facing integration projects collaborating directly with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), silicon vendors, and key B2B integration partners.

Act as a thought leader and primary technical authority for the broader engineering organization, driving architectural alignment across product, backend, and external partner teams.

Lead the technical architecture and long-term roadmap of the enterprise Android application, modularizing the codebase to support rapid feature deployment and system scalability.

Establish a core observability foundation—including real-time metrics, logging, crash telemetry, and field analytics—to improve application reliability across all deployed customer devices.

Drive media playback performance and streaming reliability across the fleet using advanced frameworks, digital rights management, and adaptive protocols.

Integrate AI-assisted development tools and automated workflows into the engineering lifecycle to increase team throughput and elevate code quality standards.

Skills, Experience and Requirements Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring)
Demonstrated thought leadership with the ability to act as the definitive technical escalation point (anchor), capable of driving organizational change and presenting architectural vision to executive stakeholders.

Strong commercial awareness and the ability to drive business outcomes by balancing technical perfection with speed-to-market, complex external integration requirements, and ROI.Deep expertise in modern Android development standards, including Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, and scalable architectural patterns.

Proven critical experience leading production-scale media playback architectures utilizing Exo Player/Media3, adaptive streaming protocols (HLS/DASH), and digital rights management.

Proficiency in AI application…