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Senior Android Engineer

Remote, EU Remote +1·Full-time·Added 1 month ago (last checked 22 Oct)

Opal

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Our summary

Salary: €60,000 - €80,000 a year
About €3,460 - €4,410 a month after tax, or €3,480 - €4,750 under the Beckham regime.
Work mode: Remote (EU Remote / Poland)
Contract: Full-time
English: Required
Experience: 5+ years

Visa options

The ad doesn’t mention sponsorship
Not a refusal, but not a yes. Worth asking in your first message.
May fit the digital nomad visa
A remote job for a company outside Spain: you apply yourself, no sponsor needed. It asks for about €2,849 a month in remote income.
Pay clears the EU Blue Card threshold
The advertised pay is over the €41,356 bar, so the route exists if Opal uses it.

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Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

5+ years building Android apps, with work you can show live in the Play Store
Deep Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Gradle, coroutines and Flow. You are comfortable across the Android toolchain
An eye that catches the details other people ship past
Your own workflows for working with AI, which you keep sharpening for yourself and your team
Experience at an early-stage or fast-growing startup, where you owned more than your job title
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward resolving it yourself
A view on what makes a feature succeed, not just what makes it work

Nice to have

The platform surfaces productivity apps depend on: permissions, overlays, accessibility services, usage stats, foreground services, background work and notifications
Health Connect, Google Fit or similar health and wellbeing platforms
Wear OS, widgets (Glance) and other surfaces beyond the phone app
Experience training or fine-tuning models
AB testing and analytics experience
Play Console release management, CI and Firebase
Apps of your own in the Play Store, built because you wanted them to exist
French

The role

We're looking for a Senior Android Engineer to build the app that helps millions of people take their attention back.

Screen time has become one of the defining issues of our era, affecting more than 5 billion people who carry a smartphone every day. Public awareness is rising fast, regulators are paying attention, and both Google and Apple have made digital wellbeing a headline feature of their recent OS releases.

Android is the newest part of Opal and the one with the most room in it. The app is early and not yet at parity with iOS - and Android is the larger platform globally, so we expect it to grow very fast as it catches up. You would be joining while the foundations are still being poured, with real influence over the architecture, the quality bar and what gets built first.

It is also a genuinely interesting moment to be an Android engineer. The way apps get built has changed more in the last two years than in the previous ten. We want someone who is already living in that change, has built their own way of working with AI, and is improving it while maintaining ownership and a high bar for craft and excellence.

Here's why this is the right moment to join:

A small team where your work is visible: You'll own real surfaces of an app that millions of people open every day.
Craft is the culture: Polish is not a phase at the end of a project; it's the point.
Room to lead: This role is scoped so that it can grow into technical leadership of the Android platform.

What you'll do

Ship features and interactions end to end in the Android app
Close the gap with iOS and then take Android past it
Bring your own ideas into the product, not just execute specs
Design and analyse AB tests, and act on what the metrics say
Own our Play Store releases, rollouts and policy compliance
Improve our dev workflows, tooling and how the team works with AI
Work directly with design and product in a flat, collaborative structure
Support customers and stay close to what they're experiencing

How you'll work

Location: Remote, European Timezone (CET +/- 3h) with bi-annual global meetups + one team meetup.

Hiring process

The application takes about 15 minutes. We ask for links to what you've shipped, a short video of something you built that you're proud of, and how you work with AI. We watch every video.

If you want the thing you build to be the reason millions of people get their attention back, we'd like to see your work.

About Opal

Opal is a global identity and access management (IAM) platform that provides a unified, cloud-based solution for managing employee identities and access across an organization's entire application ecosystem. The company's platform is designed to replace fragmented, legacy IAM systems with a modern, automated approach, serving a wide range of industries from tech startups to large enterprises. Opal has established itself as a key player in the identity security space, competing with larger, more established vendors by focusing on developer experience and a modern, API-first architecture.

Opal has a growing presence in Spain, with a dedicated team and office in Madrid. The company is known for its remote-first culture, which is highly relevant for international professionals, as it allows for flexible work arrangements and a distributed team. For international hires, Opal offers a dynamic, fast-paced environment typical of a well-funded, growth-stage startup, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and modern tooling.

Founded: 2021
Employees: 100–500
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
In Spain: Madrid
Website: opalapp.com

Good to know if you are moving

Opal is a remote-first company, meaning you can work from anywhere in Spain, not just from a central office.
The company's engineering team is distributed globally, offering a diverse and international work environment.
Opal's tech stack is modern and developer-focused, which can be a strong addition to your resume.
The Madrid office is a hub for the company's EMEA operations, providing a local point of contact and collaboration.
As a well-funded startup, Opal offers the potential for significant career growth as the company scales.

In their own words

About the company & team

Mission-driven impact: We are on a mission to help 1 billion people focus better every day. Our community has saved 500M+ hours and counting.
Ownership & flexibility: Structure your work to foster creativity and productivity.
Collaborative culture: A small, high-impact team that gathers bi-annually for meetups and learning. Nearly $1M in revenue per employee.
Growth & recognition: A top-30 US productivity app with 10M+ users. Android is rated 4.6 on the Play Store and climbing fast; our iOS app is an Apple Design Award finalist rated 4.8/5 across 60k+ reviews. That is the craft bar, and Android is where you get to set it. Competitive compensation and early equity.
Well-supported: Backed by world-class investors and the founders of Pinterest, Snapchat and Revolut.

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