Job Summary
Farmers Insurance is seeking a Senior Android Developer to take our suite of Android applications to the next level. This is a high-impact, senior leadership role where you’ll partner closely with business stakeholders, product managers, and fellow engineers to shape what we build and how we build it. You’ll help set technical direction, mentor others, demo products to leadership and business teams, and help define the future of mobile at Farmers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of feature-rich, high-performance Android applications.
- Help own code quality, release readiness, and the overall technical health of our mobile codebase.
- Partner with business and product teams to translate ideas into validated, actionable roadmaps.
- Build proofs of concept to evaluate emerging features, technologies, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Present and demo products to business stakeholders, leadership, and cross-functional teams.
- Mentor and elevate fellow developers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and best practices across the mobile team.
What We’re Looking For
Core Engineering Expertise
- 7-10 years of professional Android development experience, with a track record of shipping production apps at scale.
- Deep mastery of Kotlin, including coroutines, Flow, and modern language features.
- Expert-level experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative UI development.
- Strong command of Android Jetpack libraries and architecture components (ViewModel, Navigation, Room, WorkManager, DataStore).
- Solid grasp of modern app architecture patterns — MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, and modularization.
- Experience with dependency injection (Hilt / Dagger), reactive programming, and concurrency.
- Proficiency with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is a strong plus.
- Strong testing discipline — unit, UI, and integration testing (JUnit, Espresso, Compose testing APIs).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, app performance optimization, and Play Store release management.
- Familiarity with REST/GraphQL APIs, secure data handling, and mobile security best practices — especially important in a regulated industry like insurance.
Beyond Android
- Backend & APIs — Understanding of how the server side works, including REST design, authentication flows (OAuth, JWT), API versioning, and debugging issues that span client and server.
- Cloud & DevOps Fundamentals — Familiarity with cloud platforms (Heroku, GCP), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and build automation.
- Security & Compliance — Secure storage, certificate pinning, encryption, PII handling, and awareness of regulations like CCPA/GDPR.
- Cross-Platform Awareness — Understanding of Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native to inform architecture decisions.
- System Design & Architecture — Modularization, scalability, offline-first patterns, caching strategies, and designing for maintainability across a large codebase.
- Product & Business Sense — Reading analytics (Firebase, Segment, Mixpanel), understanding A/B testing, conversion funnels, and tying engineering work to business outcomes.
What We’re Looking For (Continued)
AI & Emerging Technology
- Practical understanding of AI and LLMs, and how to integrate them into mobile products.
- Experience with on-device ML (Gemini Nano, ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite/LiteRT) and/or cloud-based AI services is highly desirable.
- Curiosity and ability to research and adopt emerging Android technologies quickly.
- Excellent communication skills — able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Confident presenting and demoing products to business stakeholders and leadership.
- Strong collaboration skills and a proven ability to work effectively across teams.
- A mentor mindset — invested in growing the skills of those around you.
- Skilled at estimating, scoping, and prioritizing work.
- Strong problem-solving ability; flexible, self-directed, and thrives under pressure.
- Product-minded — understands business goals and the "why" behind the work.
Education Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
Physical Environment
This position operates in an open office working environment which will include normal and customary distractions, noise, and interruptions.
Physical Actions
Sits or stands for extended periods of time, up to a full work shift. Occasionally reaches overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping. Occasionally moves, lifts, carries, and places objects and supplies weighing 0-10 pounds without assistance. Listens to, interprets, and differentiates auditory information (e.g. others speaking) at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Visually verifies and reads information. Visually locates material, resources and other objects. Ability to operate a computer for extended periods of time, up to a full work shift. Physical dexterity sufficient to use hands, arms, and shoulders repetitively to operate keyboard and other office equipment up to a full work shift.
Benefits
- Farmers offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications and location.
- CA Only: $115,275 - $196,130
- CO Only: $108,375 - $169,070
- HI/IL/MN/VT Only: $108,375 - $181,060
- MA Only: $108,375 - $181,060
- MD Only: $108,375 - $181,060
- DC/NJ/NY/OH Only: $108,375 - $196,130
- Albany County, NY/Cleveland, OH: $115,275 - $169,070
- WA Only: $108,375 - $205,750
- Bonus Opportunity (based on Company and Individual Performance)
- 401(k)
- Medical
- Vision
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Job Location(s): US - CA - WdlndHills-6301
Farmers will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance or other applicable law. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1033, Farmers is prohibited from employing any individual who has been convicted of any criminal felony involving dishonesty or a breach of trust without prior written consent from the state Department of Insurance.
Farmers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in any employer/employee relations based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military and veteran's status, or any other basis protected by applicable discrimination laws.