Polymarket
Engineering
LeadAndroidEngineer
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“Lead Android Engineer at Polymarket. Skills: Android product ownership, Team leadership, Technical direction setting, Cross-functional partnership. Own the Android product. Take end-to-end ownership of Polymarket's Android experience, from technical architecture to product quality and roadmap execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale the Android platform; Drive quality outcomes
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, 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 grasp of Android-specific design patterns and constraints, Excellent cross-functional communication skills: you work well with product, design, and non-technical stakeholders, A leadership mindset over an execution mindset: you're motivated by owning an area and scaling it, not just shipping features
Nice to Have
Experience in fintech, crypto, trading, or other fast-paced, data-rich consumer applications, Familiarity with blockchain or Web3 products
What You'll Do.
Own the Android product
Take end-to-end ownership of Polymarket's Android experience
from technical architecture to product quality and roadmap execution
Lead and grow the team
Manage and organize a team of engineers and contractors today
with a clear path to scaling as mobile becomes an increasingly central part of the business
Set the technical direction
Make and own architectural decisions for the Android platform
ensuring the product is built to scale and maintained with discipline
Bridge business and technology
Understand Polymarket's business goals deeply and translate them into technical strategy and prioritization
Establish engineering and product standards for the Android team
including code review practices
and a culture of high ownership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership; Partner across the company; Work closely with product, design, backend, and leadership teams to align on priorities, coordinate launches, and drive quality outcomes
Communication Scope
Excellent cross-functional communication skills: you work well with product, design, and non-technical stakeholders
Process & Methodology
roadmap execution
Full Job Description
ABOUT POLYMARKET Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire. ABOUT THE ROLE Polymarket is looking for a Lead Android Engineer to own our Android product as we invest seriously in mobile. We're not looking for another individual contributor: we need someone who can take full ownership of the Android side of Polymarket, lead and organize a team of engineers and contractors, and scale it as the platform grows. The right person brings strong Android expertise alongside the business judgment and cross-functional instincts to translate company goals into a great product. You'll work closely with product, design, and engineering leadership, and you'll be expected to have opinions not just about how things are built, but about what should be built and why. We move fast, priorities shift, and we need someone who thrives in a lean, high-ownership environment and knows how to bring others along with them. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the Android product. Take end-to-end ownership of Polymarket's Android experience, from technical architecture to product quality and roadmap execution. - Lead and grow the team. Manage and organize a team of engineers and contractors today, with a clear path to scaling as mobile becomes an increasingly central part of the business. - Set the technical direction. Make and own architectural decisions for the Android platform, ensuring the product is built to scale and
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