Scout Motors
Staff Software Engineer-Android
$165K–$220K
Fremont, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on Android software engineering experience; technical leadership for large projects (6+ months).
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Provides technical leadership for the architecture, development, and release of Android applications and services for Scout Motors’ connected-vehicle and customer-facing digital products.
What you'll do
- Lead Android application design, development, maintenance, and mobile releases; build scalable, reliable, and performant platform architecture.
- Set technical direction and lead complex initiatives across teams, including engineering practices, deployment, monitoring, and risk management.
- Mentor engineers and share knowledge through code reviews, pair programming, presentations, example code, and documentation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience shipping customer facing applications on Android.
- Proficiency in Android development using Kotlin or Java; understanding of mobile architecture, UI/UX, GraphQL, security, and performance optimization.
- Experience leading large projects (6+ months), defining roadmaps across multiple teams, and working with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and mobile releases.
Nice to have
- Experience building systems in the automotive industry.
- Experience with mobile testing, experimentation or automation frameworks; cloud services such as AWS or Azure; or apps that connect to an IOT device.
Pay
$165,000.00 - $200,000.00 USD base salary; $181,500 - $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
Android, Kotlin, Java, GraphQL, Git, CI/CD, AWS, Azure
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