Staff Android Engineer

Full-time | Onsite | NYC or Cambridge, or Los Angeles, USA | $200K–$300K base + equity

Build the future of music with us.

At Top Music, we’re building the world’s most advanced AI music platform used by millions of creators worldwide. Our Android app has 10M+ downloads and a 4.9★ rating, and we’re just getting started.

We’re hiring a Staff Android Engineer to join as one of the earliest senior members of our Android team. You’ll own major technical and product decisions and help shape how millions create and experience music.

🚀 What you’ll do

• Build and evolve Top Music’s Android app for creating, exploring, and listening to music
• Create core foundations and abstractions for high-performance, media-rich experiences
• Own features from zero to one and beyond
• Partner closely with product and design to shape the experience
• Raise the bar on performance, polish, and user delight, especially in music creation, streaming, and social features

🧠 What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of Android engineering experience
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Experience building highly interactive consumer apps (music, video, social, creator tools)
• Experience in both big tech and fast-growing startups
• Hands-on with ExoPlayer / Media3
• Strong product mindset and passion for quality
• Bonus: You love music 🎵

🧰 Tech Stack

Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, ExoPlayer, Media3

🌟 Why join Top Music?

• Work on a category-defining AI music product (10M+ users, 4.9★ rating)
• Be Android engineer #6 with real ownership and influence
• Series C company (~120 people), backed by Lightspeed & Menlo
• $200K–$300K base + equity
• Great benefits: unlimited PTO, 16 weeks parental leave, daily lunch, $20K relocation, full health + 401k match