Staff Android Engineer (Founding)
Founding Staff Android engineer at Grow Therapy will architect, build, and ship the company's first native Android app end to end — owning architecture, tooling, CI/CD, and standards while delivering consumer-facing mental health care features. Core stack: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines/Flow, Gradle. Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite.
- Compensation
- $217K–$289K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, majority in native Android development with Kotlin
- Experience spanning platform/architecture work and consumer-facing feature development
- Led technical direction for an Android app from early/0-to-1 stage or through a major re-architecture
- Production depth in modern Android: Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines and Flow, dependency injection, modularization, Gradle build tooling
- Considered mobile testing strategy
- Strong product instincts and ability to partner with product and design
- Uses AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a core part of how you build
- Ability to work onsite 3 days per week (Tuesday–Thursday) from SF, Seattle, New York, or Waterloo
Nice to have
- Personal connection to mental health care or strong pull toward Grow's mission
- Considered view on Kotlin Multiplatform and shared-code strategies
- Built mobile apps in a regulated or healthcare setting, with attention to sensitive data and accessibility
- Helped uplevel an Android team through hiring, mentoring, and standards
Full description
About Us:
Grow was born to tackle a critical challenge: making mental health care more effective and accessible for everyone. Since launching in 2020, 15 million sessions have started on Grow, and we've barely scratched the surface. We do it through a three-sided marketplace that empowers providers, augments insurance payors, and serves patients. Every solution we build reveals ten more waiting to be delivered, and that's just what gets us going. We've backed that ambition with more than $328M in funding, including our Series D at a $3B valuation from Sequoia Capital, Transformation Capital, TCV, SignalFire, Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and others.
At Grow, the work you do can literally change someone's life. Your work here doesn't stay on a screen; it impacts whether someone can find, afford, and access quality care. That ambition sets us apart, and offers you an endless runway to impact one of the world's most urgent issues. We don’t have passenger seats here. Everyone is driving something that matters.
This work deserves real commitment. So if you thrive on meeting problems head on, untangling serious complexity, and working at pace with the sharpest yet kindest people around, you've come to the right place.
The Opportunity:
Grow Therapy's iOS app launched earlier this year, and mobile is now a core part of how clients find care, connect with their providers, and stay engaged between sessions. Android is next, and we're hiring our founding Android engineer to build it.
This is a Staff role with end-to-end ownership. You will set the technical direction for Android from day one: the architecture, the developer experience, the first production release, and the systems every future Android engineer will build on. Android at Grow is greenfield, but you won't be starting from zero. A shipped iOS app, a shared backend, and an established design system give you a proven product and platform to build from. You'll report to our Director of Engineering for the Momentum pillar and work alongside the iOS, product, and design partners who built the first app.
This is a hands-on role in an AI-forward engineering organization. We expect the person in this seat to make deliberate architectural calls with incomplete information, ship the first release, and set the standards a growing Android team inherits.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design the architecture and technical foundations for Grow's native Android app, from project structure and state management through build, testing, and release infrastructure.
- Ship consumer-facing features on that foundation, building the experiences that help clients discover care, connect with providers, and manage their care journey between sessions.
- Set coding standards, tooling, and engineering practices for Android, and evolve them as the team grows around you.