For apps that have to survive real devices, not just the emulator
Hire Android Developers
An app that works perfectly on the engineer's own phone can still crash on the mid-range device most of your users actually own. These engineers are tested against that exact gap, then placed to keep your app stable across the devices your users are really holding.
- Profiles typically within two business days
- Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
- You interview before placement if you want to
- At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
- 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
How we evaluate an Android engineer
The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.
90 secSample frame · video pending01Published, not promised
The assessment behind every engineer we send.
The Android bar is published, not assumed: five competencies, the exact task behind each, and the shortcut that ends a candidacy. Most interviews ask about Kotlin syntax. This one asks whether the app survives a device it was never tested on.
What we listen forWhether they understand what survives a configuration change and why, not just that a ViewModel exists.
A screen loses its scroll position and form input on rotation despite a ViewModel already being in place. Diagnose why.
- What strong sounds like
- Identifies the specific state not hoisted into the ViewModel or SavedStateHandle and explains the lifecycle gap precisely.
- What gives us pause
- Adds a configChanges manifest override to suppress the recreation instead of fixing the actual state ownership.
Kotlin · Java · Android SDK
Jetpack Compose · XML Views · Material 3
JUnit · Espresso · Robolectric
Gradle · Play Console · Firebase Crashlytics
02Who you actually meet
The bench, priced by seniority.
Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.
Engineer
Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.
The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.
$2,400–3,100per month
Senior
The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.
Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.
$3,400–4,300per month
Lead
The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.
One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.
$4,600–5,800per month
Android engineer
3 yrs · US East overlap
Tracked a Play Console ANR spike to one budget device class and fixed it in a week
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- JUnit
Senior Android engineer
7 yrs · UK + EU hours
Rebuilt a background-sync job that was quietly draining batteries within days of install
- Kotlin
- WorkManager
- Espresso
- Firebase
Lead Android engineer
10 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the device-lab testing practice that catches fragmentation bugs before release
- Kotlin
- Architecture
- Compose
- CI/CD
Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.
Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison
03From stated problem to first change
Four steps, each closing on evidence.
Matching starts from real device behaviour, not a resume of supported Android versions. Every step below produces something concrete, and you owe nothing if you stop partway.
Define the platform problem
We map where your app's stability or performance is actually breaking down. The role brief names that gap, not a list of Android APIs to know.
A brief your leads signMatch against your app
Candidates are screened against your actual architecture, your minimum SDK and your review culture. Three engineers who understand your constraints beat thirty who list Android on a CV.
Three fits, not thirty CVsAssess on the real tasks
Bring your own engineers to the ANR-diagnosis and configuration-change exercises. Judgement under real device constraints is visible here, not a rehearsed portfolio demo.
Evaluation you can watchOnboard inside your process
Access, standards and a first bounded fix shipped to a real build. Continuity cover means a departure lands on our desk before it reaches your release train.
A merged change in week one
04Evidence and proof
Engineers who tested on the devices that actually matter.
Android proof is stability on devices nobody in the room owns, not a demo on a flagship phone. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A crash rate that dropped once testing moved off the team's own phones.
Koru Health's Android app crashed only on budget devices nobody on the team owned. An embedded Android engineer built a device-lab testing habit and cut the crash rate before the next release.
- Crash rate on budget devices
- Cut sharply
- Time to fix
- One release cycle
He found the ANR our own QA team had marked as unreproducible, on the third device he tried.
Sample · pending client approval
She caught a background-sync bug that would have drained batteries within a week of launch.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add an engineer, a mobile pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one engineer inside their existing app and grow from evidence. Some need a pod that owns the whole mobile surface. Where the real requirement is a shipped app rather than a seat, we route you there instead.
- Team extension
One named engineer
A single Android specialist inside your direction and your reviews. The smallest commitment, and where most engagements begin.
- Delivery pods
A mobile pod
A pod with its own lead that owns the Android app end to end, release train included. You set priorities while the pod carries delivery.
- Mobile app development
The practice, not the person
When the real need is a mobile app built and shipped, not a role filled, mobile app development takes on that accountability instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before an Android hire is signed.
01What does an Android engineer actually do day to day?
Manages lifecycle and configuration-change correctness, keeps background work inside platform constraints, and chases down crashes that only appear on specific devices. The unglamorous majority of the work is testing on hardware the team doesn't personally own.
02Do you hire for Jetpack Compose or the View system specifically?
Matched to your actual codebase. Architectural judgement about lifecycle and state transfers across both, then the evaluation confirms familiarity with whichever your app runs.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, and the published tasks are built for exactly that. Several clients now run the ANR-diagnosis exercise themselves in later hiring rounds.
04How fast can an Android engineer start?
A shortlist arrives within days from a bench evaluated continuously. Real start speed after that tracks your own repository and Play Console access process.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Your leads run the standups and own the release calendar. We take on what happens around the person instead: continuity, payroll, replacement risk and the awkward conversations when plans change.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Flag it inside the first weeks and the replacement costs you nothing. The next engineer is briefed on the exact gap, which is why repeat mismatches are rare.
07Do your Android developers use AI coding tools?
Yes, openly. AI drafts boilerplate and test scaffolding quickly; the engineer stays accountable for every lifecycle decision, background-work constraint and merge that reaches your app.
08How does pricing work for a hired Android engineer?
Rates scale with the tier bands above, and the shortlist carries the confirmed figure per engineer. Billing is monthly, there is no placement fee, and a notice period is the only exit term.