Android Engineer; freelance​/perm

Are you an Android developer who thrives on tackling complex mobile experiences in the payments space?

For a long-term project with a leading payments company, DNA.inc is looking for a Staff Android Engineer to build modern, scalable applications. You’ll work closely with client teams — engineers, designers, and product specialists — to strengthen their internal capabilities and deliver robust, quality-driven platforms.

In this role, you will lead a team of Android engineers to build high-quality, reliable Android applications for one of DNA.inc’s marquee clients. Our teams often work directly within client teams, ensuring close collaboration and shared ownership of product quality and outcomes. Deep technical expertise, combined with strong communication and leadership skills will be required.

Among other things, we will look to you to:

• Own and shape the technical vision, architecture and engineering practices across multiple Android projects/teams.
• Define shared libraries, coding standards, modular architecture, CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Lead cross-team architecture and platform decisions: scalability, performance, maintainability, modularization.
• Mentor and coach engineers; perform system-level code reviews; raise code quality and consistency across teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA and other stakeholders to align technical roadmap with business goals, prioritize platform initiatives, evaluate trade-offs.
• Investigate and pilot new Android frameworks, tools, or architectural approaches; drive adoption and best practices.
• Monitor and improve engineering health: reduce technical debt, improve delivery speed, maintain long-term stability as user base and codebase grow.

To be considered a candidate for this role, we expect you to:

• Have 10+ years of professional Android (or mobile) development experience, including Kotlin and modern Android practices (coroutines, reactive programming, modularization, etc.).
• Demonstrate a track record working with large or multiple codebases, ideally across several teams or projects.
• Exhibit strong architectural design and system-level thinking: able to design scalable, maintainable, modular Android applications; document and drive architectural decisions.
• Know how to mentor and coach other engineers; strong code review skills.
• Be able to work cross-functionally (product, design, operations) and influence without formal authority.
• Leverage a strategic mindset: able to anticipate long-term challenges (scale, performance, technical debt) and propose effective solutions.
• Demonstrate a passion for engineering quality, tooling, maintainability, and team-wide standards.
• Ideally based in or around New York City. Although this role is primarily a remote or hybrid position, periodic on-site presence with our client will be expected.
• Bonus: experience in CI/CD, release pipelines, modular architecture, or cross-platform mobile strategy; familiarity with domain-specific areas (e.g. payments, media/streaming) is a plus.

, we love building platforms and products that people want to use. We specialize in helping clients envision, build, and launch large-scale software projects in streaming, media, automotive, and other industries. Headquartered in Europe, with offices in Amsterdam, Valencia, and Madrid, we share a passion for working on influential products that captivate global audiences.

By joining DNA.inc, you’ll collaborate daily with seasoned designers, engineers, and executives who have contributed to major streaming services such as Disney+, ESPN+, Eurosport, and Sirius

XM.

We combine dedication to our mission with great care for our team. Our people receive the trust and support needed to grow, and engaging projects to learn from. We invest in your professional development through mentorship, learning budgets, conference participation, and a clear long-term growth path — all within a culture that celebrates expertise.

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