Senior Software Engineer, Android
Senior Android engineer who owns and scales Knowtex's Kotlin Android app for its AI clinical documentation platform used across VA sites — building recording, authentication, and note-review workflows, integrating with APIs and real-time audio, and improving reliability, performance, and release quality.
- Compensation
- $180K–$220K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years building and shipping production mobile applications
- Significant experience developing native Android applications in Kotlin
- Strong understanding of Android platform capabilities, application lifecycle, and mobile development patterns
- Experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and authentication systems
- Experience debugging complex mobile application issues across devices and OS versions
- Understanding of mobile application security, performance, and reliability
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Significant experience using agentic coding tools to aid in the SDLC
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare technology or regulated environments
- Experience deploying mobile applications in enterprise environments
- Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB
Full description
Knowtex.ai
Senior Software Engineer (Android)
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (in office 3 days a week)
EMPLOYMENT
Full-time, individual contributor
WORK AUTHORIZATION
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; we are unable to sponsor visas for this role
COMPENSATION
$120,000 – $180,000 base salary, commensurate with experience, plus equity and comprehensive benefits
About Knowtex.ai
Knowtex is the first frontier AI lab for healthcare that is building AI to save human lives. We built an AI system that executes the most complex workflows in medicine and empowers clinicians with clinical intelligence capabilities, so every patient can receive the best care possible.
Position Overview
We are seeking a native mobile engineer to build and scale the Android experience for Knowtex’s AI-driven clinical documentation platform. You will work closely with our existing mobile engineer, Platform Engineering, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable, intuitive, and performant mobile experiences across enterprise healthcare environments.
This role is ideal for an engineer who has experience operating on small, high-impact teams with significant ownership and autonomy, including end-to-end execution on critical product features.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and expand the Knowtex Android application experience
- Build and maintain core mobile workflows including recording, authentication, patient selection, note review, and other emerging clinical workflows
- Support the rollout and continued expansion of Knowtex mobile applications within the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Drive feature parity and a consistent product experience across Android, iOS, and web where appropriate
- Develop reliable mobile experiences that interact with real-time audio, background processes, APIs, and native device capabilities
- Improve mobile application reliability, observability, performance, security, and release quality
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer delivery teams to prioritize bug fixes, improvements, and new feature development
- Participate meaningfully in technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews across mobile and web
- Improve system reliability, observability, and performance
- Handle engineering escalations from customer-facing teams, including investigating issues outside of your typical areas of responsibility