Android Engineer - DevRel Team

Role overview

You’ll join Rive’s Developer Relations (DevRel) team as an Android Engineer, focused on building and evolving Rive’s open-source Android runtime. The role is strongly technical and centered on improving runtime architecture, stability, and high-performance integration across a wide range of Android devices.

Responsibilities

• Android runtime development: develop, maintain, and evolve the Rive Android runtime and supporting infrastructure
• API & UI integration: build APIs to support Rive content in Jetpack Compose and Android Views
• Cross-language integration: expose capabilities from Rive’s core C++ runtime via JNI and Kotlin APIs
• Consistency across runtimes: ensure the Android runtime aligns with APIs/workflows used by other Rive runtimes
• Performance & compatibility: support performance across the Android ecosystem and troubleshoot issues on diverse devices
• Testing: expand the Android test suite
• Debugging & troubleshooting: diagnose complex issues (including graphics correctness) and troubleshoot performance pitfalls
• State/lifetime synchronization: synchronize state and lifetimes between Kotlin and C++
• Customer collaboration: work with engineering, product, and customers; triage customer-specific issues and capture lessons learned as scalable documentation or API guidance
• Developer enablement: help ensure smooth onboarding and share production best practices; support documentation efforts
• Technical leadership: act as an Android technical expert for Rive engineering and help prioritize tasks in a fast-evolving environment

Requirements

• Android application development: experience building Android apps using Kotlin
• Library development: experience maintaining libraries used by other developers (e.g., version management, change logs, announcements)
• Native development: C++ experience is helpful; JNI binding experience is strongly beneficial
• Strong troubleshooting: proven ability to find root cause for difficult bugs, prevent regressions, and proactively address issues (including through unit tests)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience integrating complex native runtimes with Android tooling
• Familiarity with expanding runtime capabilities and developer-facing documentation