About this opportunity
Weber Blackstone lists this Senior Software Engineer, Android opportunity in palatine, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
At Weber Blackstone, we believe the best moments happen outdoors while enjoying delicious food with your favorite people. We lead the industry in innovation, design, and consumer delight, and we’re fueled by people who are curious, bold, and collaborative. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or exploring a new craft, we want Weber Blackstone to be the spark that ignites your next career move. Join us on our journey to create world class products that redefine and reimagine outdoor cooking and deliver exceptional experiences for generations to come. Come be part of our BBQ!
Summary
Role Overview
Weber Blackstone is looking for a talented, driven, and experienced Android engineer to serve as the technical lead for the Weber Connect app, which turns our grills into connected products and makes great outdoor cooking easier and more fun.
This role owns Android's technical direction: architecture, code quality, and the standards the team builds against. This is deep hardware-adjacent work. You'll partner with Firmware teams on the communication protocols between app and grill, the Server teams on how state syncs to the cloud, and with iOS and the Product teams to keep the experience consistent across platforms and products. You'll also improve what's already in customers' hands which includes a growing portfolio of connected grills, probes, and accessories that our customers rely on for weeknight dinners, backyard parties, and the celebrations they plan their year around.
This is a hybrid role requiring in-office days at our Palatine, IL campus.
Responsibilities
Lead the technical design and implementation of major features in the Weber Connect app: from protocol to pixels
Partner with Firmware to define and version the messaging protocol between app and grill: shaping the spec, not just consuming it
Give Product the honest read on what Android can deliver: sequencing, estimates, and launch readiness, against hardware still stabilizing and dates that don't move
Maintain app stability through constant change: Android platform releases, permission and background-execution changes, Play policy, and a hardware fleet spanning years of firmware versions
Build the telemetry and diagnostics that make connection problems debuggable when the grill is in a backyard you'll never visit
Set and maintain the standards the Android team builds against - architecture, code quality, testing, bug triage, and mentor engineers across the team to build the instincts behind them
Drive a predictable, low-risk release cadence: CI/CD, staged rollouts, crash monitoring, and feature flags
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field
Work Experience
7 or more years of experience working in-depth on Android and/or similar mobile platforms (e.g. iOS)
Deep, nuanced knowledge of Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines/Flows, Jetpack Compose
Led the delivery of large features and guided teammates through complex code refactors
Built and shipped Android applications that communicate with external hardware, including hands-on work with the Bluetooth LE APIs: GATT, connection state machines, reconnect, bonding, and background behavior
Fought and won against Android's background execution model: foreground services, OEM battery restrictions, sessions that run for hours rather than minutes
Owned a mobile build pipeline, not just used one: build signing, automated testing, and the path from merge to store release
Nice To Have
Delivering OTA firmware updates from a mobile app
Device provisioning flows: BLE-to-Wi-Fi handoff
MQTT, AWS IoT, or similar cloud-to-device messaging
Kotlin Multiplatform / Compose Multiplatform
Building AOSP from source
Consumer IoT, appliances, wearables, or automotive - anywhere the app is one half of the product
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Life and disability insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
401(k) with company match
Eligible for paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, holiday)
Salary Range
$150,000 - $188,000
This salary range represents Weber Blackstone's good faith belief of what we reasonably expect to pay the top candidate
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Worksite address
palatine, IL, 60251, US
Who can apply
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