Senior Android SDK Engineer - Series C Mobile Startup in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Career trajectory: RevenueCat offers a detailed 12-month onboarding roadmap, progressing from contributor to domain expert and eventual mentor — a clear signal of structured growth. By month 12 you're expected to own architecture decisions and shape engineering culture, which is rare and valuable at a 120-person company.
Skill development: Android SDK engineering is a high-demand, specialized niche. Building SDKs used by 32,000+ apps and processing $10B+ in volume is exceptional resume material. Cross-platform exposure to iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and hybrid frameworks further broadens your marketability in mobile.
Market compensation: No salary range is listed, which is a mild yellow flag for transparency. Senior Android engineers at Series C startups in the US typically earn $160K–$220K+ annually. The equity package (10-year exercise window is unusually founder-friendly and reduces pressure to sell early) adds meaningful upside for a growing platform company.
Company signals:
- Green flag: YC-backed, Series C, $10B+ in processed purchases — the business is validated and scaling.
- Green flag: "Always Be Shipping" culture suits engineers who want visible impact quickly.
- Green flag: Open-source SDK work on GitHub builds your public portfolio automatically.
- Yellow flag: No salary disclosed — worth negotiating explicitly given the seniority level.
Work-life balance: "Balance" is listed as a core company value, and the suggested 4–5 weeks PTO backs it up. The fully flexible remote policy avoids micromanagement. Overall, this is a strong opportunity for a senior mobile engineer who wants meaningful ownership at a proven, growing company.
RevenueCat removes the headaches of building and scaling in-app subscriptions. Since graduating from YC's S18 batch we've grown into the default monetization platform for mobile: we're in >40% of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $10B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo dev in Brazil to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.
We're a remote-first crew of 120+, spread across 25 countries, and guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance. If you want your work to touch hundreds of millions of end-users (and help the developers behind them get paid), you'll fit right in.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior SDK Engineer (specialized Android) to join our team to help design, build, ship, and support end-to-end features and products that will help developers make more money. We want to bring somebody onboard that is product focused, customer focused, and passionate about building mobile SDKs with a great developer experience.
This role will primarily focus on our Android SDK but also requires contributions to our iOS SDK and hybrid SDKs from time to time. Experience in these other platforms is not a requirement, but the desire and excitement to work on them is.
About You
- You have 5+ years of experience in software, and have shipped mobile apps to Google Play Store.
- You are very experienced in Android, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose.
- You are not afraid of iOS or hybrid platforms.
- You love making products for developers.
- You love shipping good products.
- You have deep empathy for customers.
- You know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles.
- You collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture.
- You are proactive — when you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements.
- You move fast, test, and iterate quickly.
- You ask questions when you're stuck on something.
- You are excited to be part of a growing team.
Bonus
- Experience in Swift and SwiftUI.
- Experience building SDKs.
- Experience in server-driven user interfaces.
- You have shipped your own app to Google Play or the App Store.
- Experience in Python or other backend development.
In the First Month, You'll:
- Learn about our customers, our SDK, the in-app subscription ecosystem, the problems RevenueCat helps solve, and how our SDKs fit into that.
- Open your first pull request and deploy changes to be used by 32,000+ apps.
- Onboard into our codebase by working on your very first project and shipping it.
- Learn how we maintain as much transparency as possible with our work in GitHub.
- Begin reviewing code and add to our engineering culture.
Within the First 3 Months, You'll:
- Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently.
- Participate in code reviews, and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, etc.) to improve reliability and quality of the codebase.
- Understand every product owned by your team.
- Understand and improve many of the codebases that the team works with.
Within the First 6 Months, You'll:
- Be the most knowledgeable person on several key features.
- Have your own initiatives for improving the codebase and our infrastructure.
- Contribute to the team roadmap and technical direction.
- Have shipped a major product or feature.
Within the First 12 Months, You'll:
- Know more about mobile subscriptions than anyone ever should.
- Use your knowledge to contribute ideas to RevenueCat's suite of solutions.
- Be able to spec, architect, and build any feature we might want to build.
- Have experience in all areas of the technology stack related to SDKs and be the primary expert/owner of at least one area.
- Help mentor and onboard new engineers, shaping the RevenueCat engineering culture as we continue to expand the team.
- Help prioritize the roadmap to provide maximum value to developers, while pushing the team and technology forward.
What We Offer
- Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
- 10-year window to exercise vested equity options
- Fully remote and flexible work environment
- 4–5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
- $2,000 USD workspace setup stipend and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning
Curious about the interview process? Discover more in our blog post about how we hire and learn tips to help you succeed.
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