Lead Android Engineer

Lead Android Engineer

Bengaluru · 6–10 years

About Us

Pocket FM is a leading audio entertainment platform that brings engaging, serialized fiction to millions of listeners across genres like romance, thriller, fantasy, and more. With over 130 million users globally and strong traction in markets like the US and Europe, we're revolutionizing storytelling through audio.

Our unique model combines free listening with micropayments for premium content, powering strong business growth. In FY25, we reached an ARR of INR 2,000 crore, with over 100,000 hours of content on the platform. We're also at the forefront of innovation, leveraging AI-generated content to scale efficiently.

Role Overview

We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend who will be responsible for building high-performance APIs, scalable microservices, and robust infrastructure powering our audio platform.

This is a high-ownership role that requires strong technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and a mindset to work in a fast-paced product environment.

About the role

We're looking for a Lead Android Engineer to own our mobile platform, lead a team of

engineers, and set the technical direction for our Android app. You'll work closely with product,

design, and backend teams to ship impactful, polished experiences to millions of users.

What you'll do

• Architect and own the Android codebase — setting standards for quality, scalability, and

performance

• Lead end-to-end feature delivery from scoping to Play Store release

• Mentor and grow a team of Android engineers through code reviews and technical

guidance

• Drive the mobile engineering roadmap and contribute to quarterly planning

• Champion best practices: CI/CD, testing, crash monitoring, and performance profiling

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and AI-assisted tooling to boost team velocity

What we're looking for

• 6–10 years of professional Android engineering experience

• Expert-level Kotlin — coroutines, flows, sealed classes, extension functions

• Deep, production-proven Jetpack Compose expertise (this is a core requirement)

• Strong View system / XML layout knowledge for legacy interoperability

• Solid experience with MVVM, MVI, or other structured architecture patterns; familiarity

with Clean Architecture

• Experience with RESTful APIs, Retrofit, OkHttp, and networking best practices

• Proven track record of leading or mentoring an Android team

• Proficiency with Android Studio profilers, debugging tools, and Play Store release

management

GenAI & modern tooling

We build with AI, not just around it. You should be:

• Comfortable using AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) day-to-day

• Able to prompt LLMs effectively for code generation, test writing, and documentation

• Capable of critically reviewing and refining AI-generated code for production quality

• Excited to keep up with the rapidly evolving GenAI tooling landscape

Big plus: media & ExoPlayer

If you have hands-on experience with ExoPlayer / Media3 — video playback, DRM, Widevine,

or real-time media processing — you will stand out. We're building features in this space and

would love someone who's been there before.

Other nice-to-haves

TensorFlow Lite / on-device ML, Wear OS, live streaming, Android TV, or open-source Kotlin

contributions.