Senior Android Applications Developer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were a global close-knit community united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration thats critical for safer communities safer schools safer hospitals safer businesses and ultimately safer nations. Connect with a career that matters and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Android Applications Developer to design build and maintain mission-critical Android applications supporting public-safety communication situational awareness and operational data systems. These applications are used by emergency responders and must operate reliably in demanding field environments with intermittent connectivity device integrations and high availability requirements.

The successful candidate will collaborate with product management UI/UX backend platform teams and device integration teams to deliver secure resilient and performance-optimized applications while driving engineering excellence architectural consistency and technical mentorship across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design develop test and maintain mission-critical Android applications using Kotlin-first development practices.
  

• Implement resilient offline-capable and fault-tolerant mobile solutions capable of operating in low-connectivity or degraded network environments.
  

• Build modern Android user interfaces using Jetpack Compose while ensuring usability in high-stress operational workflows.
  

• Implement scalable modular architectures (e.g. MVVM Clean Architecture modularization) supporting large multi-feature applications.
  

• Integrate with backend systems real-time messaging platforms and device services using REST streaming and event-driven APIs.
  

• Develop and maintain integrations with Bluetooth radio communication interfaces sensors GPS/location and background services.
  

• Optimize applications for performance battery efficiency and reliability under continuous operational use.
  

• Implement secure communication authentication and data-protection mechanisms aligned with enterprise and public-safety security requirements.
  

• Contribute to automated testing reliability validation and release quality gates including unit integration and instrumentation testing.
  

• Support CI/CD pipelines release automation and operational monitoring of deployed mobile applications.
  

• Participate in technical design reviews mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices across teams.
  

• Diagnose field issues perform root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes for production deployments.

Basic Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  

• Strong experience developing production Android applications using Kotlin and the Android SDK.
  

• Experience designing high-reliability enterprise or mission-critical mobile applications.
  

• Experience with modern Android UI development using Jetpack Compose.
  

• Strong knowledge of Android architecture components (ViewModel Navigation Lifecycle WorkManager).
  

• Experience implementing offline-first data synchronization caching and conflict-handling strategies.
  

• Experience working with Bluetooth device integrations background processing or hardware-adjacent APIs.
  

• Experience with networking frameworks such as Retrofit OkHttp or Ktor.
  

• Strong debugging performance optimization and secure coding practices.
  

• Experience working with Git-based development workflows.
  

• Strong collaboration and communication skills within cross-functional engineering environments.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on public safety communications defense or highly regulated enterprise mobile platforms.
  

• Experience integrating with radio communication systems push-to-talk messaging or real-time communication frameworks.
  

• Experience implementing secure mobile architectures including certificate-based authentication encrypted storage and hardened builds.
  

• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Hilt/Dagger).
  

• Familiarity with modular Android architectures for large-scale applications.
  

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
  

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments supporting multi-team product releases.
  

• Familiarity with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) for sharing business logic across mobile or cross-platform applications.
  

• Familiarity with Compose Multiplatform for building shared UI components across Android and other supported platforms.

• Experience with Firebase observability platforms or operational telemetry tooling.

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EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or belief sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.