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WhatsApp - Software Engineer - Android

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Hybrid (Bangalore)Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Android engineer role in WhatsApp Services team focused on building payments, commerce and money-centric flows on WhatsApp, driving end-to-end initiatives, architecture ownership, and collaboration across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced zero-to-one environment.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship client features for WhatsApp on Android, with a focus on performance, reliability and memory footprint on low- and mid-tier devices
  • Own Android client architecture for services surfaces — payments, commerce and money-centric flows
  • Work across Kotlin and Java with the Android SDK, and partner with server and platform teams on API design
  • Set direction and goals for a team, lead major initiatives and drive them to completion across functions
  • Architect efficient and scalable systems that drive complex applications, and make engineering trade-offs
  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues, and drive large efforts to reduce technical debt
  • Establish ownership of significant components, features or systems with expert end-to-end understanding
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to peers, help onboard new team members and raise the engineering bar in the team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in product management, design, data science and operations to build innovative application experiences
  • Partner with payments, legal, compliance and local operations to meet reliability and regulatory standards in India

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of programming experience in a relevant language, or 4+ years with a PhD
  • Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects
  • Experience utilizing data and analysis to explain technical problems and provide detailed feedback and solutions

Skills

Required:Android development (Java/Kotlin)
Nice to have:Multithreading and memory managementPerformance optimisation for low-end devicesPayments and digital payments ecosystem (India)Monetization, payments, commerce, or AI/ML products0-to-1 product developmentGlobal/multi-market product experienceCross-functional collaborationAI/ML tooling integrationEthical AI practices
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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