Senior Android Engineer

About the role

Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work. As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision: empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry. Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

Responsibilities

• Build exceptional Android experiences: Design, build, and scale Perchwell's Android app serving real estate professionals, delivering fast, stable, and intuitive mobile experiences that empower users to search, collaborate, and close deals from anywhere.
• Own projects end-to-end: Lead major Android initiatives from technical design through launch, setting direction, driving execution, and ensuring quality every step of the way.
• Accelerate product sales : Our mobile experience is a competitive differentiator for new clients and a delightful extension of the Perchwell platform.
• Shape Android architecture : Make key decisions on the structure and setup of our codebase to ensure it is scalable, maintainable, and testable in order to accelerate feature development and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with backend, product, design, and QA to deliver seamless, high-quality user experiences.
• Required for this Role
• 7+ years of professional Android development experience, with a strong command of Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem (Jetpack, Compose, Coroutines, dependency injection, etc).
• Proven track record owning and delivering complex, high-impact features from architecture to development and release.
• Deep understanding of mobile reliability and scalability , with a track record of identifying and resolving systemic issues.
• Experience influencing technical direction - defining standards, driving architectural decisions, and aligning cross-functional teams.
• Strong customer empathy - the ability to translate complex user needs into technical solutions that address both immediate problems and long-term product health.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present technical tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration with backend and product partners , translating business needs into technical execution.
• Love ownership, iteration, and making things better every release.
• In this role, you'll work out of our New York City HQ in Soho Manhattan at least 3 days/week.

Requirements

• Modular Android architecture - Experience designing and implementing feature modules, shared library modules, and dependency management strategies to support clean separation of concerns and fast build times.
• Multi-app development - Experience with structuring the codebase to streamline developing and releasing multiple mobile applications in a single codebase.
• Performance optimization - Experience with investigating, diagnosing, and fixing performance issues with Android apps.
• Familiarity with backend systems and APIs , particularly in the context of designing robust and functional client-server contracts for mobile applications.
• Continuous integration - Familiar with common tools and techniques for structuring and organizing mobile builds and automated testing tracks to improve quality and reduce developer cycle time.
• Why Join Perchwell
• Your work will directly power how thousands of real estate professionals run their businesses, not just a small feature in a massive codebase. You'll help shape our mobile architecture and standards from the ground up while working on a small, talented team that values autonomy, me

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