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This person will own consequential technical decisions, partner closely with product, design, backend, quality, and iOS peers, and help the team ship reliable customer value. The ideal candidate has deep Android expertise and enough hands-on iOS experience to reason about platform tradeoffs, review shared mobile patterns, and occasionally contribute targeted Swift or SwiftUI changes when useful.\nCore responsibilities\nOwn the design and implementation of complex Android features from discovery through monitoring after release.\nSet and evolve technical direction for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, app architecture, modularization, networking, persistence, and dependency management.\nWrite clear technical designs; surface tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and migration plans before implementation.\nBuild accessible, responsive interfaces in close partnership with product design and research.\nImprove automated testing across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers; make quality an everyday engineering practice.\nStrengthen observability, performance, crash health, security, privacy, and release confidence for the Android app.\nPartner with backend and platform teams on API contracts, offline behavior, authentication, experimentation, and analytics.\nCollaborate with iOS engineers on shared product behavior and mobile standards while respecting platform-native conventions.\nReview code thoughtfully, mentor engineers, and raise the quality of technical decisions without becoming a delivery bottleneck.\nParticipate in planning, estimation, incident response, and continuous improvement of the mobile delivery process.\nThis position will be in one of the following locations: Falls Church, VA, Aurora, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Tacoma, WA. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum of 5 years with BS/BA; 9 years of experience with a high school diploma. \n5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production Android applications; equivalent depth of experience is welcome.\nAdvanced Kotlin skills and strong knowledge of Android SDK fundamentals, Jetpack libraries, coroutines, and reactive state management.\nProduction experience with Jetpack Compose, including state, navigation, performance, testing, and interoperability with Views.\nDemonstrated ability to make sound architecture decisions and evolve a mature codebase safely over time.\nExperience with REST or GraphQL APIs, local persistence, background work, authentication, analytics, and push notifications.\nStrong testing and debugging habits, including use of crash, performance, and product telemetry to guide decisions.\nExperience shipping through Google Play, managing staged rollouts, and responding to production issues.\nClear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-engineering partners.\nA record of mentoring others and improving team practices through influence and example.\nMust be a U.S. Citizen.\nAbility to obtain a Public Trust clearance.\niOS experience expected\nThis remains an Android-first role. Candidates do not need to be senior iOS specialists, but they should have enough practical experience to collaborate across both mobile platforms. Strong evidence includes:\nHands-on experience reading and making scoped changes in Swift, SwiftUI, and/or UIKit.\nFamiliarity with Xcode, iOS app lifecycle, navigation, concurrency, testing, code signing, and App Store release workflows.\nAbility to compare Android and iOS implementation tradeoffs without forcing identical architecture or user-interface patterns.\nExperience contributing to shared mobile conventions, API contracts, design systems, analytics taxonomies, or cross-platform feature parity.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in a consumer, subscription, healthcare, fintech, marketplace, or other reliability-sensitive mobile product.\nKnowledge of Kotlin Multiplatform or another selective code-sharing approach, with pragmatic judgment about where sharing helps.\nExperience with mobile CI/CD, build performance, feature flags, experimentation, and automated release tooling.\nFamiliarity with mobile security, privacy, accessibility standards, and threat modeling.\nExperience leading migrations such as Views to Compose, monolith to modules, or legacy asynchronous code to coroutines.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nTarget Salary Range\n$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. 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