Android Engineer II

About The Role

We are looking for an Android Software Engineer to help build and maintain a world-class mobile experience for Fetch. In this role, you will work directly with our backend services and external partners to deliver high-quality, engaging gameplay and rewards features. You'll collaborate on a small, cross-functional team that may include other engineers, a designer, product manager, data scientist, and other roles. Success in this role requires the ability to tackle complex technical challenges and design and develop polished, user-centric solutions that delight our users. You'll be part of a cutting-edge Android team operating on a modern, 150+ module architecture built with the latest Android best practices. Our stack includes Kotlin 2.X, 95% Jetpack Compose UI, MVVM with Hilt for dependency injection, and tooling like Gradle convention plugins, KSP, and Room. We optimize build performance with remote caches and CI pipelines powered by Bitrise.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain Android features that support Fetch Play gameplay and rewards, collaborating with backend teams and partners to create high-quality user experiences.
• Integrate with partner APIs and marketing tech systems, ensuring rewards attribution is accurate and reliable.
• Optimize shoppability flows for performance and ease of use, reducing friction from product discovery through to purchase planning.
• Collaborate with product and design to ensure users can quickly find and activate offers most relevant to them.
• Monitor and improve engagement metrics, helping the team track how features drive user adoption and rewards redemption.
• Work across backend, data, and marketing tech teams to bring new partner integrations and e-commerce capabilities into the app.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and releasing Android applications.
• Strong command of Android fundamentals and modern tools/libraries (Kotlin, Jetpack, Coroutines, Compose).
• Demonstrated experience with unit testing and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Espresso, Compose Testing), with a focus on delivering reliable, maintainable code.
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Hilt, Dagger, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Room or equivalent local persistence solutions.
• Exposure to and ability to contribute to architecture, modularization, and component design in a large codebase.
• Demonstrated success working within cross-functional teams to ship impactful, user-focused features.
• Strong skills in debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Effective communicator with experience aligning technical work with product goals.
• A collaborative mindset; experience working with team-based development is essential.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, proposing paths forward, and driving toward outcomes.
• An AI-forward mentality to explore and apply the latest tools that improve engineering efficiency.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working in large, multi-module codebases with scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with build tooling (Gradle convention plugins, KSP) or contributing to CI/CD pipelines (Bitrise or similar).
• Background building mobile features in rewards, e-commerce, or marketing attribution domains.
• Familiarity with geospatial or mapping functionality in mobile apps.
• Generalist engineering experience, including backend or cross-platform development.
• Engagement in open-source ecosystems or collaborative development communities.

Benefits

• Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch's growth.
• 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
• Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
• Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
• Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
• Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
• Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
• Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
• Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We'll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)