Android Developer

Location: Fully remote

Compensation: $120,000-$140,000, competitive startup comp, and meaningful equity upside

Department: Engineering

Reports to: CTO

About Rare Candy

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. Collectors use our AI-powered card scanner, data-rich collection tools, and jaw-dropping drops to buy, sell, rip, and showcase Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more. We've hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months, the business is highly profitable, and we're building the team to take this from a great product to a category-defining one.

We're a 10-person team moving fast and looking for the next set of TCG-obsessed rock stars to join our team.

The Role

We're hiring a Junior Android Developer to help build the mobile experience for collectors to use every day from managing their collections, connecting with the community, and opening Instapacks.

You'll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship features across our Android app. This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone early in their career who already knows how to build in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, has worked with GraphQL, and wants to grow quickly inside a fast-moving startup.

You won't be handed endless tickets in a giant backlog. You'll work on real product problems, learn from one of the leading mobile engineers, and see your work go directly into the hands of passionate collectors.

If you love trading cards or collector communities, and want to level up fast, this is a role for you.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days: You get the app running locally, understand the core product flows, and ship your first meaningful fixes or small features.

By day 90: You're regularly shipping Android work with support from the CTO and mobile lead. You can take a well-scoped feature or improvement, ask the right questions, implement it cleanly, test it, and get it into production.

By the end of year one: You've become a reliable Android contributor across some of the most important parts of the product. You've shipped meaningful improvements to the collector experience, grown your Kotlin and Jetpack Compose craft, and earned ownership over increasingly important features.

What You'll Do

Build and improve Android features across Rare Candy's collector-facing product.

Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers to shape clean, usable client-server contracts.

Fix bugs, improve polish, and raise the quality bar for the Android app.

Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into shipped experiences.

Learn quickly, ask good questions, and communicate clearly when something is blocked, unclear, or ready for review.

A Day in Your Life at Rare Candy

You start the morning checking the Android board and reviewing feedback on a feature you shipped yesterday.

Mid-morning, you're pairing with other engineers on a new integration for a collection feature.

After lunch, you're tightening up a screen, fixing an edge case, and testing the flow against real user behavior.

Later in the day, you're in a product discussion about how users want to showcase their favorite pulls, bringing both your Android perspective and your own TCG fluency to the conversation.

You close the day by opening a PR with a clear summary, screenshots, and a note about what still needs review.

You Might Be a Fit If

You have around 3 years of Android development experience and have shipped real features in a production app or serious side project.

You're comfortable building with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

You've worked with GraphQL, or you have enough API experience to ramp quickly.

You care about product quality, UI polish, and the little details that make an app feel good.

You're early in your career but serious about getting better. You want feedback, mentorship, and real responsibility.

You're comfortable in a fast-moving startup where priorities can shift and the best answer is often “figure it out, then make it better.”