Technical Lead – Android Applications

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were 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 thats 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.

Department Overview

Job Description

Role Overview

The Android Applications Technical Lead role provides hands-on technical leadership for the design development and delivery of mission-critical Android mobile applications supporting public-safety communications situational awareness and operational workflows. The role combines strong architectural ownership with active development contributions ensuring solutions meet the reliability security and performance expectations required for first-responder environments.

This position partners closely with Product Management UI/UX Platform Engineering Device Integration teams and cross-site engineering teams to deliver scalable and resilient mobile capabilities while strengthening engineering standards architectural consistency and technical capability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership

• Own the technical architecture and implementation strategy for major Android application components and feature domains.
  

• Define and maintain scalable Android architectures (e.g. Clean Architecture MVVM modularization) aligned with enterprise mobile platform standards.
  

• Lead complex technical design discussions architecture reviews and solution evaluations.
  

• Ensure engineering solutions meet Motorola Solutions mission-critical requirements for reliability quality performance and security.
  

Engineering Delivery

• Contribute directly to the design and development of Android applications using Kotlin-first development practices and modern Android frameworks.
  

• Guide the implementation of offline-capable resilient mobile solutions operating in degraded or intermittent network environments.
  

• Drive performance optimization stability improvements and long-term maintainability across mobile codebases.
  

• Oversee integration with backend systems messaging platforms device interfaces sensors and communication technologies.
  

• Support CI/CD pipelines release readiness activities and production monitoring practices.
  

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership across feature teams influencing technical direction without formal line management responsibility.
  

• Mentor engineers and senior developers strengthening architectural thinking design quality and engineering best practices.
  

• Partner with cross-functional teams across sites to ensure alignment on shared platform components and integration strategies.
  

• Support troubleshooting of complex production issues root-cause investigations and implementation of durable technical fixes.

Basic Requirements

Core Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  

• Significant experience building production Android applications using Kotlin and the Android SDK.
  

• Experience serving as a technical lead senior engineer or architectural owner for complex mobile software systems.
  

• Strong experience designing enterprise-grade or mission-critical mobile applications.
  

• Deep knowledge of Android architecture components and modern Android development practices.
  

• Experience implementing offline-first data handling synchronization and conflict-resolution strategies.
  

• Experience integrating mobile applications with device hardware communication interfaces or backend service platforms.
  

• Strong debugging performance optimization and secure-coding capabilities.
  

• Experience working within Agile development environments and collaborative cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on public-safety communications defense or highly regulated enterprise platforms.
  

• Experience integrating with real-time communications messaging or radio communication systems.
  

• Experience with dependency injection frameworks (Hilt/Dagger) modern testing frameworks and CI/CD automation.
  

• Familiarity with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose Multiplatform.
  

• Experience guiding cross-team technical initiatives reusable platform components or shared architecture standards.
  

• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting technical capability growth across engineering teams.

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Company

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-protected characteristic.

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 youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.