Android Applications Developer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re 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 that’s 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.

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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 deliversecure, resilient, and performance-optimized applications, while driving engineering excellence, architectural consistency, and technical mentorship across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintainmission-critical Android applications using Kotlin-first development practices.
   

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

• Build modern Android user interfaces usingJetpack 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 usingREST, streaming, and event-driven APIs.
   

• Develop and maintain integrations withBluetooth, radio communication interfaces, sensors, GPS/location, and background services.
   

• Optimize applications forperformance, battery efficiency, and reliability under continuous operational use.
   

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

• Contribute toautomated testing, reliability validation, and release quality gates including unit, integration, and instrumentation testing.
   

• SupportCI/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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
   

• Strong experience developingproduction Android applications using Kotlin and the Android SDK.
   

• Experience designinghigh-reliability, enterprise, or mission-critical mobile applications.
   

• Experience with modern Android UI development usingJetpack Compose.
   

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

• Experience implementingoffline-first data synchronization, caching, and conflict-handling strategies.
   

• Experience working withBluetooth, device integrations, background processing, or hardware-adjacent APIs.
   

• Experience with networking frameworks such asRetrofit, OkHttp, or Ktor.
   

• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and secure coding practices.
   

• Experience working withGit-based development workflows.
   

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working onpublic safety, communications, defense, or highly regulated enterprise mobile platforms.
   

• Experience integrating withradio communication systems, push-to-talk, messaging, or real-time communication frameworks.
   

• Experience implementingsecure mobile architectures including certificate-based authentication, encrypted storage, and hardened builds.
   

• Experience withdependency injection frameworks (Hilt/Dagger).
   

• Familiarity withmodular Android architectures for large-scale applications.
   

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
   

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

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

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

• Experience withFirebase, 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-protectedcharacteristic. 

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 you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.