Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. They are looking for a Staff Android Systems Engineer to lead the development of Android-based products running on custom hardware. This is a hands-on, application-heavy role for someone with deep Android OS knowledge and the instincts to take a young codebase to production maturity.
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 8 to 12 years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in Android platform or systems engineering rather than app-layer development
- AOSP fluency: you've navigated the source tree, worked with OEM or vendor teams, and can answer questions the documentation doesn't
- Deep understanding of Android's security model including sandboxing, system app privileges, the threat surface of privileged IPC, and how the same APK can behave differently across devices
- Hands-on experience with update mechanisms from application-level updates through system-level OTA, with enough depth to have a credible technical conversation with a vendor about tradeoffs
- Comfort with adb shell as a real debugging environment and experience with system-level diagnostic tools and tracing to diagnose problems that never surface in Android Studio
- Experience shipping products where WebView is the primary UI surface, not a fallback
- A track record of building or significantly evolving Android CI/CD pipelines, with opinions on signing key hygiene, artifact provenance, and device-in-the-loop testing
- Experience designing device telemetry and fleet health systems, especially in constrained environments
- A quality-first mindset and the ability to champion best practices in testing, observability, and release confidence
- Strong communication skills so you can translate deep technical findings for non-technical stakeholders and lead across engineering, QA, and leadership
- Genuine excitement about AI and a habit of applying it to real engineering problems
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
- Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Traditional 401k with company match
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
- Professional development stipends
- Mental health resources
- 1:1 financial planners
- Fertility healthcare
- 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
- Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
- Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
- Employee resource groups