Android​/Kotlin Engineer - Intermediate - NYC , NY - Information Technology - Analysts

Job  New York , New York Job Type: Contract Added - 07/17/26

We are Looking for aAndroid/Kotlin Engineer
- Intermediate - NYC , NY

Position type: Contract to Hire

Duration: 6+ Months

Must-have requirements

• Experience:
  
  2–5 years building and shipping Android apps in production; ownership of features end-to-end.
• Language:
  Strong Kotlin (incl. coroutines); solid grasp of OOP, SOLID, and pragmatic design patterns.
• Modern UI:
  Jetpack Compose (preferred) and/or strong XML UI skills; theming, accessibility, localization, multiple screen sizes.
• Architecture:
  Hands-on delivery using MVI (unidirectional data flow): intents/actions ? reducer ? state; clear state modeling; side-effects handled cleanly.
• Async & state:
  Coroutines + Flow/State Flow, structured concurrency, cancellation, threading, and back pressure awareness.
• Dependency Injection:
  Production experience with DI (commonly Hilt/Dagger); scoping, component design, testability.
• Android fundamentals:
  Lifecycle, Navigation, background work (Work Manager), permissions, deep links, notifications.
• Data layer:
  Room and Data Store; caching strategies; offline/poor-network handling.
• Testing & quality:
  Unit tests for reducers/use-cases, View Model tests, some UI tests; CI-friendly builds; lint/static analysis usage.
• Debugging & performance:
  Profiling, crash/ANR triage, memory/leak awareness, performance tuning in Compose.
• Delivery practices:
  Git workflow, code reviews, refactoring, clear documentation/ADRs when introducing architectural changes.

Good-to-have (modern engineering)

• Modularization:
  Multi-module Gradle, build optimization, feature modules.
• Security basics:
  Secure storage patterns, certificate pinning concepts, privacy-by-design.
• bservability:
  Structured logging, analytics/event schemas, crash reporting best practices.

Bonus: AI / ML requirements (nice-to-have)

• On-device ML:
  Experience integrating ML Kit or Tensor Flow Lite, model constraints (latency, memory, battery), and on-device privacy considerations.
• LLM features:
  Building AI-powered UX (summarization, search, assistants) via approved APIs; streaming responses, caching, fallbacks, and guardrails.
• Prompt + evaluation:
  Basic prompt design, regression/evaluation mindset (quality metrics, red-teaming, offline test sets).
• Responsible AI:
  Understanding of PII handling, data minimization, consent, and secure telemetry for AI features.

Proficient in iOS/Android Development as well as multiple design techniques

• Working proficiency in iOS/Android toolset to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies with ability to work in at least one of the common frameworks
• Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, application resiliency and security
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages
• Working proficiency in a portion of software engineering disciplines and demonstrates understanding of overall software skills including business analysis, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and improvement of Software

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PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range*:$ 75/Hr.

* Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits
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Innova Solutions offers benefits( basedon eligibility) that include the following:

Medical &…