Freelance Android Developer Opportunities

Android Developer, Remote

This is a full-time, fully remote Android Developer position paying $112,000 per year in USD, with no location restrictions. The work centers on a live product with an established user base, so this developer is joining an app that already ships regularly rather than one still finding its shape. Android fragmentation is part of daily reality here. Device sizes, OS versions, and manufacturer customizations all vary widely across the install base, and a fix that works cleanly on one configuration can still surface a new problem on another. Anticipating that, rather than being surprised by it, is part of what makes someone effective in this role. Screen density differences alone can turn a layout that looks fine in the emulator into something visibly broken on a physical budget device.

Skills

Kotlin and Java both come up here, with Kotlin the primary language for anything new.

• Kotlin
• Java
• Android SDK
• Material Design
• REST APIs
• Git
• Mobile app testing

A few things aren't required but can meaningfully strengthen an application: hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose, comfort with coroutines or RxJava for asynchronous work, familiarity with Room for local storage, and any exposure to Firebase for crash reporting or push notifications. A candidate who's already made the shift from XML layouts to Compose will likely settle into this codebase faster than one who hasn't. Testing frameworks like JUnit and Espresso also come up regularly, and someone comfortable writing tests alongside features, rather than treating testing as a separate step tacked on afterward, tends to move faster once ramped up.

Background we're looking for

A bachelor's degree is expected, most often in computer science or an adjacent technical field. On top of that, the target is 24 months of hands-on Android development, ideally including at least one app that made it into the Play Store and stayed there. Proficiency in the Android SDK matters more than the specific path someone took to learn it, whether that was a formal degree program or a self-directed one. Published work carries weight in review. An app with real ratings, a version history, and a few resolved bug reports behind it tells us more about how a candidate handles the ongoing maintenance side of the job than a portfolio of demos ever could. Two years is treated as a floor, not a target to just barely clear; someone right at that mark who's worked across more than one real app usually presents better than someone with more raw time spent maintaining a single small project.

What the role involves

This developer designs, builds, and maintains native Android features, connecting them to backend services via REST APIs. Bug fixing draws mainly from two sources: issues caught in testing before release and problems reported by real users once a build is live.

• Design and build native Android features from initial concept through release
• Integrate app functionality with backend APIs and handle the data flowing through them
• Diagnose and resolve bugs surfaced through QA testing and user feedback
• Investigate and fix performance issues, including memory leaks and slow rendering
• Prepare builds for Play Store submission and handle the review process
• Document notable technical decisions so future changes don't require reverse-engineering old code

One recent issue involved an app that crashed whenever someone rotated their phone mid-form. The fragment wasn't retaining its state across the configuration change, so a half-filled form simply vanished on rotation. Catching that kind of lifecycle bug before it reaches production is a normal part of this work, not an exceptional case. Backend contract changes cause a smaller but steadier stream of issues, since a field that gets renamed or restructured on the server side doesn't always get flagged until an app build actually tries to parse the response and fails.

Pay and benefits

The salary is $112,000 a year, paid in USD, for a fully remote role open to candidates anywhere.

• Health coverage
• Paid time off
• 401(k) matching
• Remote-work flexibility
• Paid holidays, with occasional team events depending on scheduling

Equipment needed to do the job, including any device required for testing across Android versions, is provided rather than left for the developer to source independently. Requests for additional tools or licenses are handled on a case-by-case basis rather than routed through a lengthy approval chain.

How the team works

Releases go out on a regular cadence rather than in large, irregular batches, which keeps any single build smaller and easier to debug if something goes wrong. Naukri Mitra sees consistent interest in Android roles like this one, since remote positions at this level with a genuinely open location policy remain less common than the demand for them. Code review is treated as a normal part of shipping, not a bottleneck to route around. A pull request usually receives a first response within a day, and the expectation runs both ways: this developer is expected to review others' work with the same attention they give their own code. Growth here tends to track with ownership rather than title changes on their own. Someone who's carried a major feature, or a whole module of the app, through several release cycles is usually the first person considered when a bigger piece of the roadmap opens up. That kind of track record tends to matter more in a review than years of tenure alone.

How to apply

Send a resume along with a link to at least one Android app you've published, and a short note on what you built if the work was done as part of a team. Applications go through in the order they arrive. A technical conversation focused on real decisions from a shipped app typically comes before any formal exercise, since that conversation usually says more about how someone actually works. Any exercise that follows draws on realistic scenarios from Android development, close to the fragmentation and lifecycle issues described above, rather than an abstract algorithm problem disconnected from the actual job. Feedback, whether the process moves forward or not, comes within a reasonable window rather than leaving candidates waiting without word.