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# Lead Android Engineer at Future

- **Company:** Future
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/future/jobs/4722301005

## Job description

About Us:

Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. We help people understand what to do next for their body, goals, and stage of life — then support them in turning those decisions into sustained behavior change. By combining AI, human expertise, personal health data, and accountability, Future helps members improve performance today while building the resilience, capacity, and healthspan they need for decades to come.

About the Role:

We’re hiring a Lead Android Engineer to set the technical direction for Future’s Android products and build the experiences our members use every day.

You’ll lead work across our phone and Wear OS apps. You’ll shape core journeys such as onboarding, coach messaging, scheduling, guided workouts, progress tracking, health-data integration, and video calls. You’ll work with product, design, backend, and iOS engineers on a small, senior team.

This is a hands-on role. You’ll move between product details and system architecture, write production code, guide technical decisions, and help other engineers do their best work.

What You’ll Own:

- Member Experience: Lead Android implementation for the experiences that connect members with their coaches and help them follow through on their plans. Build polished, accessible interfaces with Jetpack Compose and Future’s design system.
- Android Architecture: Set direction for a multi-module Kotlin codebase built around Compose, coroutines and flows, dependency injection, and unidirectional state. Improve module boundaries, data ownership, navigation, and offline behavior as the product grows.
- Connected Health and Wearables: Guide the systems that connect Future with Wear OS, Health Connect, heart-rate data, sensors, and the Android device lifecycle. Protect member data and design for intermittent connectivity.
- Reliability and Performance: Own app startup, responsiveness, media playback, foreground services, background work, real-time calls, and data synchronization. Use crash, performance, and release telemetry to find problems before members encounter them.
- Engineering Excellence: Set expectations for code quality, testing, observability, and maintainability. Strengthen unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end coverage with JUnit, Robolectric, Espresso, and Appium.
- Delivery and Release Quality: Improve Gradle builds, GitHub Actions, Fastlane automation, and Google Play delivery. Help the team ship often without trading away stability.
- Team Leadership: Lead the Android team through technical planning, project execution, design discussions, pairing, and code review. Keep engineers aligned on priorities, decisions, and delivery risks.
- AI-Assisted Development: Use coding agents and AI tools to speed up exploration, implementation, testing, and review. Apply engineering judgment to validate their output before it reaches members.

Who You Are:

## Experience and Background

- You have 8+ years of professional Android engineering experience, including ownership of complex consumer applications.
- You have deep Kotlin knowledge and a strong command of Jetpack Compose, coroutines, Flows, dependency injection, and Android lifecycle behavior.
- You have led architecture work in a large or modular Android codebase.
- You have shipped and supported applications through Google Play.
- You understand performance, offline state, background execution, media playback, permissions, and device fragmentation.
- You have strong testing habits across unit, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
- You can debug across UI, networking, persistence, services, devices, and CI.
- You have led complex projects from planning through launch, partnering with product and design while managing scope, dependencies, risks, and delivery.
- You have operated at lead scope, regardless of title.
- You use AI coding tools in your development workflow and know how to verify their output.

Domain Passion

You care about health, fitness, and the role that thoughtful coaching can play in someone’s life.

Working Style

- You care about interaction quality, accessibility, performance, and the small details members notice.
- You make architectural decisions based on product needs and operating constraints.
- You raise concerns early and bring possible solutions.
- You share context, invite feedback, and help other engineers grow.
- You take ownership from product discovery through production support.

## Nice to Have

- Experience building Wear OS applications or working with the Wearable Data Layer.
- Experience with Health Connect, health sensors, or Bluetooth devices.
- Familiarity with HIPAA and other laws and regulations that apply to health products and services.
- Experience with Media3, CameraX, foreground services, or real-time audio and video.
- Experience designing offline-capable applications with Room, WorkManager, and background synchronization.
- Experience with fitness, health, coaching, or other personalized consumer products.
- Experience evolving a design system across a large Compose application.

Compensation, Benefits & Life at Future:

- Salary range: $190,000-$230,000 / year + equity. The salary range is set based on multiple considerations including business needs, market demands, talent availability, experience, and unique skills and attributes. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- Health coverage: All employees have access to comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance + tax savings accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Future Membership: Enjoy our platform for free!
- Health, Wellness & Development: Health and fitness monthly stipend contributes to our employees’ overall wellbeing, with access to a mental health platform, reimbursement for medical travel, and an annual learning & development stipend.
- Remote First: Employment eligible to employees located anywhere in the continental US. No travel required.
- Join a diverse, passionate & driven team of all backgrounds.

Life at Future

Equity: Meaningful equity package. Health Coverage: All employees who meet eligibility requirements receive comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, plus tax-advantaged savings accounts. Retirement: 401(k) plan. Wellness: Monthly wellness stipend for fitness, recovery, and overall wellbeing, plus access to mental health resources and therapy support. Flexible Time Off: Flexible PTO so you can rest, recharge, and take care of life outside of work. Learning & Development: Annual budget for courses, conferences, coaching, and tools that help you grow in your craft. Future Membership: Enjoy our platform for free.

## Equal Employment Opportunities at Future

We are committed to building a future where every member of our community, is healthy, cared for, and advancing forward together. Future is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, civil or family status, disability or race.

## About Future

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Future is the largest provider of personal training in the nation, offering personalized, one-on-one coaching through a mobile app that pairs members with dedicated coaches who build custom workout plans.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Justin Santamaria (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Wellness and Fitness Services / Health & Fitness Technology
- Target customers: B2C (individuals seeking personal training), with a premium subscription model ($199/month)
- Mission statement: "To make world-class coaching accessible to more people, so they can build strength, move better, and live healthier, longer lives." [future.co](https://future.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Future (Consumer App)**: A personalized, 1-on-1 personal training app. Each member is matched with a dedicated coach who creates custom workout plans, provides video demos and form guidance, and offers daily accountability and support. Plans evolve over time based on progress and feedback. [future.co](https://future.co/)
- **Future Pro (B2B)**: A corporate wellness offering providing personalized training as an employee benefit.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$113.5M** across 7 rounds (Seed, Series B, Series C). The most recent Series C (2022) raised **$75M** led by Trustbridge Partners and SC.Holdings. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Trustbridge Partners (Lead), SC.Holdings (Lead), Andreessen Horowitz (Board Member), Tom Brady (Co-Chairman of the Board), Tiger Woods (Board of Directors/ Athlete Advisor), Simone Biles (Athlete Advisor). [future.co](https://future.co/about)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Headcount of **184 employees**, with **+14.8% YoY growth**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)
    - Over **8.2 million workouts completed** and **28 billion+ pounds lifted**. [future.co](https://future.co/about)
    - Acquired Autograph (NFT platform) in January 2025. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)
    - Active job postings increased **+66.7% YoY**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)

## Competitive Advantages
- **The Human Element**: Unlike pure fitness apps, Future's core product is the human coach. The company believes "the right coach changes everything" and has a collective **1,774 years of coaching experience** among its team. [future.co](https://future.co/about)
- **High-Profile Brand Ambassadors**: Board members and athlete advisors like Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, and Simone Biles provide massive credibility and marketing reach.
- **Proven Results**: Claims a **98% member satisfaction rate** (more consistent within 4 weeks) and a **4.9/5 rating on the App Store**. [future.co](https://future.co/)
- **Personalization at Scale**: The tech stack (React Native, Python, Snowflake, AI) enables a deeply personalized experience that adapts to each member's life, schedule, and goals.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Coaching**: The company is actively hiring for an "Applied AI Engineer," signaling a push to integrate artificial intelligence into their coaching platform to enhance personalization and scale. [future.co/careers](https://future.co/careers)
- **Scaling the B2B Channel (Future Pro)**: Expanding corporate wellness partnerships to reach more members through employer-sponsored programs.
- **Deepening the Member Experience**: Continuously refining the app and coaching model to improve retention and outcomes, with a focus on long-term health and strength.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Future's culture is built on four pillars: "Raise the Bar," "Go the Extra Mile," "Sweat the Details," and "Stronger Together." They emphasize authentic relationships, ambitious goals, and a founder-like mentality. [future.co/careers](https://future.co/careers)
- **Work Environment**: **Remote-First** company. They provide a complete work-from-home package including Wi-Fi reimbursement, a home office setup stipend, and Future branded gear. They also host regular in-person gatherings across the country to build community. [future.co/careers](https://future.co/careers)
- **Benefits & Perks**: 
    - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and copays.
    - **12 weeks of paid parental leave**.
    - Annual **Learning & Development stipend** for courses, conferences, and certifications.
    - **Free Future membership** ($199 value) plus a $99/month discount for friends and family.
    - **Monthly wellness stipend** for fitness, mindfulness, and self-care.
    - **10 free therapy sessions** per year for mental health.
    - **401(k) plan** with tax-smart savings.
- **Engineering Culture**: Uses a modern tech stack (React, React Native, Python, Kotlin, Snowflake, Terraform, Kubernetes) and is building a team of ambitious engineers to solve complex problems in health and personalization. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)

## Sources
1. [future.co - Official Website](https://future.co/)
2. [future.co - About Page](https://future.co/about)
3. [future.co - Careers Page](https://future.co/careers)
4. [linkedin.com - Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-research-inc)
5. [tracxn.com - Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/future/__xLWFfIQZrq1Z7nhPZ_9SFhbTvhNNISaxZIZN208YvYA)

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