Sr. Android Developer - Hybrid Woodland Hills, CA

About the role

Farmers Insurance is seeking a Senior Android Developer to lead the architecture, design, and development of feature-rich, high-performance Android applications. This is a high-impact, senior leadership role where you'll partner closely with business stakeholders, product managers, and fellow engineers to shape what we build and how we build it.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of feature-rich, high-performance Android applications.
• Own code quality, release readiness, and the overall technical health of our mobile codebase.
• Partner with business and product teams to translate ideas into validated, actionable roadmaps.
• Build proofs of concept to evaluate emerging features, technologies, and AI-driven capabilities.
• Present and demo products to business stakeholders, leadership, and cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and elevate fellow developers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
• Drive adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and best practices across the mobile team.

Requirements

• Core Engineering Expertise:
  • 7-10 years of professional Android development experience, with a track record of shipping production apps at scale.
  • Deep mastery of Kotlin, including coroutines, Flow, and modern language features.
  • Expert-level experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative UI development.
  • Solid grasp of modern app architecture patterns — MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, and modularization.
  • Experience with dependency injection (Hilt / Dagger), reactive programming, and concurrency.
  • Proficiency with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a strong plus.
  • Strong testing discipline — unit, UI, and integration testing (JUnit, Espresso, Compose testing APIs).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, app performance optimization, and Play Store release management.
  • Familiarity with REST/GraphQL APIs, secure data handling, and mobile security best practices — especially important in a regulated industry like insurance.
• Backend & APIs:
  • Understanding of how the server side works, including REST design, authentication flows (OAuth, JWT), API versioning, and debugging issues that span client and server.
• Cloud & DevOps Fundamentals:
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Heroku, GCP), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and build automation.
  • Knowing how releases actually ship — staged rollouts, feature flags, and crash monitoring (Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry).
• Security & Compliance:
  • Secure storage, certificate pinning, encryption, PII handling, and awareness of regulations like CCPA/GDPR and industry-specific data rules, including the OWASP Mobile Top 10.
• Cross-Platform Awareness:
  • Even though the app is native, understanding of Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native to inform architecture decisions and collaborate with teams that use them.
• System Design & Architecture:
  • Modularization, scalability, offline-first patterns, caching strategies, and designing for maintainability across a large codebase and team.
• Product & Business Sense:
  • Reading analytics (Firebase, Segment, Mixpanel), understanding A/B testing, conversion funnels, and tying engineering work to business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Practical understanding of AI and LLMs, and how to integrate them into mobile products.
• Experience with on-device ML (Gemini Nano, ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite/LiteRT) and/or cloud-based AI services is highly desirable.
• Curiosity and ability to research and adopt emerging Android technologies quickly.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills — able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Confident presenting and demoing products to business stakeholders and leadership.
• Strong collaboration skills and a proven ability to work effectively across teams.
• A mentor mindset — invested in growing the skills of those around you, fostering a strong code review culture, and translating technical tradeoffs for non-technical audiences.
• Skilled at estimating, scoping, and prioritizing work.
• Strong problem-solving ability; flexible, self-directed, and thrives under pressure.
• Product-minded — understands business goals and the "why" behind the work.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications and location.
• Benefits package includes:
• 401(k)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance

Pay

$115,275 - $196,130

Schedule

Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)