FoundingAndroidEngineer

THE ROLE We’re looking for a Founding Android Engineer to join our existing Android engineer, as his full-time partner — co-owner of the Wabi Android app. Two engineers, no hierarchy. Both 100% accountable for the whole Android product. Architecture and priorities decided jointly. You'll report directly to founder Eugenia Kuyda https://x.com/ekuyda — no management buffer. We have a production iOS app, an existing backend, and an Android v1 almost ready for publishing in Play Store. The real game starts right after that — evolving v1 into something dramatically more powerful and beautiful, with deep feature work, modern UI craft, and platform-specific magic that makes Wabi feel truly native on Android, not like an iOS port. This is not a cross-platform role. We believe in native apps for each platform — the iOS and Android apps will diverge where the platforms diverge. We want someone who lives and breathes Android. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Co-own the Android app. Joint architecture, joint priorities, joint accountability. - Ship constantly. Deploy-to-prod speed matters more than architectural elegance — we ship, then refactor in flight. - Build modern, expressive UI — animations, motion, gestures, video, custom components. Consumer-creative craft is the bar. - Drive smart feature parity with the iOS app while making thoughtful platform-specific decisions, using the iOS codebase as a reference and AI tooling to move 10x faster. - Collaborate tightly with founder Eugenia Kuyda and the design team (Antoine https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinevdlb/, Henry https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/, Joonas https://www.linkedin.com/in/joonasvirtanen/) — small, fast loops, real ownership. - Improve the chaos. If you love building AI team tooling — custom agents, internal automations to speed up the whole team — that's a genuine green flag for us. We love that energy. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR Mandatory - 5+ years of professional Android development with apps shipped to the Play Store.