Staff Mobile Engineer (Android)

Career-defining. Life-changing.

At iRhythm, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career

About This Role:

Shape the Future of Connected Cardiac Care as a Staff Android Engineer on our Mobile Telemetry team. As a Staff Android Engineer you will serve as the technical leader and primary owner of the Android Gateway application powering our next-generation Mobile Cardiac Telemetry platform. This is a highly visible, hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, defining architecture, and influencing product direction. You'll operate at the intersection of mobile engineering, connected medical devices, cloud-enabled ecosystems, and patient care, helping deliver technology that clinicians and patients rely on every day.

As the technical lead for the Android platform, you will drive the strategy, architecture, and execution of critical mobile initiatives, transforming clinical and product requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure solutions. You will make key technical decisions, establish engineering best practices, and serve as a trusted partner to Product, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, and cross-functional software teams.

Beyond writing high-quality production code, you'll guide architecture reviews, mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and elevate the overall quality, reliability, and maintainability of our mobile ecosystem. Your work will directly shape a mission-critical platform designed to improve patient outcomes and advance the future of cardiac monitoring.

What You'll Do

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term evolution of our Android Gateway platform.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex mobile initiatives from concept through production.
• Develop robust, scalable Android applications using modern mobile development practices and technologies.
• Drive architectural decisions and establish patterns that improve performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner closely with Product, Systems, Firmware, Quality, Regulatory, and Cloud Engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead technical design reviews and champion engineering excellence across the organization.
• Mentor and coach engineers while fostering a culture of technical curiosity, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment.

Experience & Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or 8+ years with a Master's degree.
• Proven experience operating at a Senior or Staff Engineer level, leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem, including Jetpack libraries, Hilt, Coroutines, and Jetpack Compose.
• Strong experience architecting and supporting long-running Android applications, including background execution, foreground services, state restoration, process lifecycle management, battery optimization, and memory management.
• Experience building and supporting Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications in production environments.
• Strong understanding of modern APIs and communication protocols, including REST, GraphQL, MQTT, or comparable messaging technologies.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture ownership, design documentation, engineering mentorship, and cross-functional influence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing software in regulated environments such as medical devices, healthcare, automotive, aerospace, or financial technology.
• Familiarity with medical device software standards and cybersecurity frameworks, including IEC 62304, ISO 14971, FDA cybersecurity guidance, threat modeling, and software bill of materials (SBOM) practices.
• Experience implementing mobile security best practices, including Android Keystore, StrongBox, certificate pinning, mTLS, secure update strategies, and secure device communications.
• Experience managing dedicated or enterprise Android devices, including Android Enterprise, kiosk mode, device policy management, and enterprise firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) deployments.
• Exposure to iOS development, cross-platform mobile technologies, or broader mobile platform strategy.

Location:

Remote - US

Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.

Estimated Pay Range

$166,000.00 - $216,000.00

As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws.

iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at taops@irhythmtech.com

About iRhythm Technologies
iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms, iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care, iRhythm’s vision is to deliver better data, better insights, and better health for all.

Make iRhythm your path forward. Zio, the heart monitor that changed the game.

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