Android Software Engineer

About Ancestry:

When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, connects everyone with their past so they can discover, preserve, and share their unique family stories. With our unparalleled collection of more than 65 billion records, over 3.5 million subscribers, and over 27 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving, and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.

We are committed to our location flexible work approach, allowing you to choose to work in the nearest office, from your home, or a hybrid of both (subject to location restrictions and roles that are required to be in the office- see the full list of eligible US locations HERE). We will continue to hire and promote beyond the boundaries of our office locations, to enable broadened possibilities for employee diversity.

Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve.

Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

Ancestry seeks an exceptional, passionate, and highly motivated Android engineer to join our mobile app team. The team is primarily focused on creating, enhancing, and maintaining software features for Ancestry’s popular mobile apps. As an Android Engineer on the mobile team, you will work with other software engineers, quality engineers, product managers, and designers to define and implement features on our mobile app.

Your contributions will be seen by millions of users.

• Deliver powerful Android experiences that impact people’s lives in the exciting fields of Genealogy and DNA Analysis
• Work with engineers and architects to come up with solutions to optimize development across multiple platforms
• Build upon a mobile-centric backend infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly growing user base
• Participate in product and technical planning, contributing to roadmap prioritization, feature design discussions, and detailed development plans.
• Maintain high quality through code reviews and unit testing

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Hands on experience creating Android mobile apps and mobile app features using Kotlin and Compose
• Experience using RESTful and/or Graphql APIs in Kotlin
• Strong team player; enjoys collaborating with others to improve outcomes

• Interest in Genealogy
• Experience with KMP
• Dependency injection with dagger/hilt
• GraphQL
• Understanding of and experience with architecture design patterns

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours. Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes:
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DNA, Ancestry Pro Genealogists , Fold3, , Find a Grave, , and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at

As a signatory of the Parity Pledge in Support of Women and the Parity Pledge in Support of People of Color, Ancestry values pay transparency and pay equity. We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position is $92,350- $115,380 with eligibility for bonus, equity and comprehensive benefits including health, dental and vision. The actual salary will vary by geographic region and job experience.

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