Sesame · 10 hours ago
Android Engineer
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$175K/yr - $280K/yrSesame is a company focused on designing lifelike computers that can collaborate with us naturally. They are seeking an Android Engineer to build their companion app, providing leadership on Android UI/UX best practices and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences.
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Responsibilities
Build Sesame’s standalone companion app, the foundation for a new consumer product category, on a team that cares deeply about craft and quality
Provide leadership on modern Android UI and UX best practices, creating interactions that feel naturally Android
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product to ship complex features that genuinely delight users
Partner with other Android, iOS, and web engineers to help shape the long-term mobile and web strategy for Sesame
Qualification
Required
Strong intuition and well-formed opinions about Android app design, UI, and UX, and modern mobile aesthetics; you know how to create experiences that feel native to the platform
A portfolio of beautiful, useful Android apps that you built or played a major role in
You care deeply about building products people genuinely love; understanding what motivates users and turning that into thoughtful interactions feels natural to you
The engineering challenge of crafting fast, fluid, and inventive Android interfaces excites you; you enjoy sweating the details that make an interaction feel effortless
You have an intuitive sense for performance; you know where Android apps tend to stall or stutter, and you are persistent about smoothing things out, whether the issue is in the UI layer, the network stack, the app architecture, or device-specific quirks across different OEMs
You stay plugged into the Android ecosystem, and you naturally think about how upcoming platform capabilities or tooling improvements could elevate the experience
Hands-on experience with the full mobile development lifecycle: release trains, test strategy, device-matrix testing, and modern Android architecture patterns such as unidirectional data flow, MVVM, and coroutine-based async programming
Preferred
Experience with Jetpack Compose or other modern declarative UI frameworks
Familiarity with Jetpack libraries and modern tooling in the Android ecosystem
Experience with real-time communication, including WebRTC, WebSockets, audio and video codecs, or other low-latency media pipelines
Expertise in managing battery and performance tradeoffs in complex applications, including those that handle media, sensors, or background workloads
Experience integrating BLE peripherals on Android and navigating the device-specific quirks that come with it
Graphics and shader experience, such as OpenGL, Vulkan, or other GPU-accelerated rendering work
Contributions to open source Android projects or a strong personal portfolio of polished Android applications
Experience building consumer AI products
Experience solving uniquely Android problems at scale, including device fragmentation, manufacturer-specific behaviors, and widely varying performance profiles
Benefits
401k matching
100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits
Unlimited PTO and sick time
Flexible spending account matching (medical FSA)
Company
Sesame
Sesame is a voice tech startup focused on developing AI voice assistants that create natural and emotionally resonant conversations.
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$307.62MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2025-10-21Series B· $250M
2023-11-01Series A· $47.5M
2023-09-12Seed· $10.12M
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