Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Android

Suno Suno · Multimodal · New York, NY · Engineering

Suno is seeking Senior/Staff Android Engineers to build and define the architecture of their AI-powered music creation platform. This role involves end-to-end feature ownership, driving engineering quality, and setting technical direction for the Android app, which serves as a real-time AI creation studio and social platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build Suno’s Android app across creation, discovery, playback, and social experiences
  2. Create foundational abstractions and libraries for performant, highly interactive media experiences
  3. Own feature development from zero to one and beyond — scoping, shipping, and iterating post-launch
  4. Collaborate closely with product and design to shape the feel, flow, and direction of the app
  5. Optimize for performance, responsiveness, and delight — from render times to audio latency to micro-interactions

Skills

Required

  • Kotlin
  • Android development
  • Animations
  • Performance optimization
  • User experience
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

Nice to have

  • ExoPlayer
  • Media3
  • Audio streaming
  • Real-time audio
  • Social product features
  • Mobile-first APIs
  • Startup experience
  • Technical leadership
  • Music

What the JD emphasized

  • shipping production Android apps
  • advanced expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks and best practices
  • Experience building fluid, polished animations and translating design prototypes into robust, production-grade code
  • A keen understanding of what’s distinct about Android — and how to leverage that in a media-rich application
  • Strong sense for performance: you profile, benchmark, and fix across UI rendering, memory, and network efficiency
  • An obsession with great user experience — you care about the details that most engineers skip
  • Comfort with ambiguity: you can scope work, make tradeoffs, and ship without a fully-defined spec
  • A collaborative spirit and strong communication — you work fluidly with designers, PMs, and backend teams