Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Android)
Company: Suno
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Salary: $200k - $300k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-07
About this role
- We’re looking for early members of our Android team at the Senior and Staff levels
- These aren’t maintenance roles — you’ll help define the architecture and experience of a product that’s genuinely changing how the world makes music
- You’ll work directly alongside the founding team, shaping technical and product decisions from the ground up
- The Suno Android app is far more than a music player: it’s a real-time AI creation studio, a social platform for sharing and discovering original music, and a showcase for some of the most advanced generative audio technology ever shipped to consumers at scale
- At the Senior level, you’ll own major features end-to-end, drive engineering quality, and contribute to architectural decisions
- At the Staff level, you’ll set the technical direction for the Android platform, mentor the team, and define the foundations that scale us to 10x our current user base and beyond
- Design and build Suno’s Android app across creation, discovery, playback, and social experiences
- Create foundational abstractions and libraries for performant, highly interactive media experiences
- Own feature development from zero to one and beyond — scoping, shipping, and iterating post-launch
- Collaborate closely with product and design to shape the feel, flow, and direction of the app
- Optimize for performance, responsiveness, and delight — from render times to audio latency to micro-interactions
- Instrument and monitor the app’s health, and iterate rapidly based on real user data
- Set the technical direction for the Android platform and define architectural patterns the team builds on
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for code quality, abstractions, and engineering culture- An obsession with great user experience — you care about the details that most engineers skip
- 5+ years shipping production Android apps
- Comfort with ambiguity: you can scope work, make tradeoffs, and ship without a fully-defined spec
- Experience building fluid, polished a...