Lead Android Engineer

Polymarket Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end Android product for Polymarket, including technical architecture, product quality, and roadmap execution, ensuring a scalable and high-performing mobile experience.
• Lead, manage, and organize a team of Android engineers and contractors, establishing clear workflows, performance standards, and career development paths as the mobile team scales.
• Set and own the technical direction for the Android platform, making architectural decisions that prioritize scalability, maintainability, and long-term stability aligned with company growth.
• Translate Polymarket’s business objectives—such as increasing user engagement, improving trading volume, and expanding market reach—into actionable technical priorities and product roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, backend, and executive leadership teams to align on feature priorities, launch timelines, and quality benchmarks across platforms.
• Establish and enforce strong engineering standards for the Android team, including rigorous code review practices, automated testing, release cadence, and monitoring protocols.
• Drive product quality by owning bug resolution, performance optimization, crash reduction, and user experience improvements across all Android devices and OS versions.
• Act as the primary technical liaison between Android development and other departments, ensuring seamless integration with backend APIs, blockchain data feeds, and cross-platform features.
• Advocate for user-centric design and functionality by actively participating in product discovery sessions, reviewing UI/UX wireframes, and providing technical feedback to designers.
• Cultivate a culture of high ownership, accountability, and technical excellence within the Android team, mentoring engineers and contractors to raise collective skill levels.
• Proactively identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and scalability risks in the Android codebase and implement strategic plans to address them ahead of growth pressures.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs, libraries, and tools that enhance app functionality while maintaining security, performance, and compliance standards.
• Ensure all Android releases meet Polymarket’s operational and regulatory requirements, particularly around data privacy, financial transaction integrity, and user authentication.
• Monitor app store metrics (e.g., ratings, reviews, crash reports, retention) and use insights to inform iterative improvements and prioritize upcoming sprints.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes for Android roles, defining interview rubrics, assessing candidates’ technical and leadership fit, and integrating new team members effectively.
• Stay current with Android ecosystem trends, Google’s platform updates, and emerging best practices in mobile development to ensure Polymarket’s app remains technologically competitive.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading Android development at a product-driven company, with ownership over a shipped, high-quality Android app
• Comfortable operating in a small, early-stage team environment where context shifts quickly and ownership is broad
• Strong business and product judgment: you understand goals beyond the technical and can make tradeoffs that reflect what actually matters to the company
• Experience managing engineers and contractors, with a track record of organizing and developing a high-performing team
• Deep Android platform expertise and a strong grasp of Android-specific design patterns and constraints
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills: you work well with product, design, and non-technical stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

Skills & Technologies

Express

Android

Mobile

Senior

Onsite

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About Polymarket Inc.

Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform that allows users to trade on the outcomes of future events. Operating on blockchain technology, it enables individuals to bet on a wide range of topics, including politics, current events, and cryptocurrency. The platform facilitates transparent and trustless trading by leveraging smart contracts, ensuring that payouts are automatically executed based on verified event resolutions. Polymarket aims to democratize information and provide a novel way for people to engage with and profit from their insights into the future, fostering a global community of informed predictors.

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