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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Android at Archer'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Android at Archer

- **Company:** Archer
- **Location:** South East Hampshire, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/archer56/jobs/7984475003

## Job description

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors.

Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

Archer is best known for Midnight, our electric aircraft. This role isn't on that program. The AI Products Org builds consumer software for the general aviation industry. There's a lot we're not ready to talk about publicly yet, so this posting stays vague on purpose. What we can say: the products are real, they ship, and people use them every day.

As the Staff Android Engineer, you'll own the Android app of a mature consumer product — one that's been featured in the app stores multiple times and has a real user base that opens it every day. The iOS and Android apps are close to feature parity, and in a couple of places Android is ahead. You'd own the Android side: new features, refinements, and keeping both platforms moving together as the product evolves.

What You’ll Do:

- Own the Android app of a mature, production consumer product: new features, refinements, and keeping it in step with iOS as both evolve. You'll be reading Swift regularly, even if you never write it
- Make the parity-vs-platform-convention call constantly, and defend your reasoning
- Ship. Play Store releases, crash triage, performance on the long tail of Android hardware — the unglamorous parts are part of the job
- Work on new and different projects (mobile, web apps, internal tools) as opportunities come up across the org. This is where the generalist part of your skill set earns its keep
- Work the way this team works: AI-assisted development is the default here, not a novelty. We use Claude Code daily and expect you to be fluent with agentic coding tools — or to get fluent fast and honestly, we'll be able to tell which

What You Need:

- 7+ years of software engineering experience, mostly on user-facing client software that shipped in the Play Store
- Bachelor's, or equivalent experience in Computer Science
- Solid Kotlin experience, and enough compose to have opinions about it
- Real 0→1 experience — you've built the first version of something, not just contributed to a long-lived codebase someone else stood up
- Comfort with ambiguity. If you need a fully scoped program before you can start, this won't be a fit.

Bonus Qualifications:

- You can write Swift, not just read it
- Web frontend experience (React or similar)
- Full stack experience — useful here, but not required
- You've shipped in a regulated or safety-adjacent industry and know how that changes engineering culture

About The Team:

AI Products is a roughly 100-person software org inside a company of aerospace engineers, and we expect to grow substantially over the next year. You get the resources and momentum of a real org, but the products themselves are early. If you want to hear more about what we're building before you apply, you can't. Apply, and we'll tell you plenty.

Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Archer's [Candidate Privacy Policy](https://archer.com/legal/personnel-candidate-privacy-policy).

Certain positions may be eligible for visa sponsorship.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to People@archer.com. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.

## About Archer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Archer is developing and manufacturing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to create a sustainable air taxi service for urban mobility.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ACHR)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Adam Goldstein, Brett Adcock [linkedin.com]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Airlines and Aviation / eVTOL aircraft manufacturing and operations
- **Target customers**: Airline operators, urban commuters, and corporate partners (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission or purpose**: Advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility by creating a quick, safe, sustainable, and cost-effective electric airline [greenhouse.io]

## Products & Services
- **Midnight eVTOL Aircraft**: A fully electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft designed to carry passengers with minimal noise, range up to 100 miles at speeds up to 150 mph. Dual-mode capability (VTOL and CTOL) [linkedin.com]
- **Archer Airline Operations**: Vertically integrated airline service intended to operate air taxi flights in cities globally.
- **Archer FBO (Fixed Base Operator)**: Acquired Hawthorne Airport FBO in Los Angeles, offering full airport services [linkedin.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.0 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com]
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue $300,000; Total funding raised $2.83 billion (post-IPO equity rounds from Stellantis, United Airlines, BlackRock) [linkedin.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Stellantis, United Airlines, BlackRock; partnerships include United Airlines (200 aircraft order), UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (certification program), White House eVTOL Integration Pilot Program [linkedin.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 1,158 employees (+44.5% YoY); US operations expected to begin in 2026 under eIPP; expanded flight test program with daily piloted flights; certification progress in UAE; Florida air taxi bill passed [linkedin.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated** – designs, manufactures, and operates its own aircraft and airline, controlling the full stack.
- **Dual-mode aircraft** capable of both vertical and conventional takeoff/landing, increasing operational flexibility.
- **Strong strategic partnerships** with major airlines (United) and automotive OEM (Stellantis) provide capital, manufacturing expertise, and distribution.
- **First-mover status** in eVTOL certification and commercialization in the US and UAE.

## Strategic Focus
- Launch commercial air taxi operations in US cities in 2026 under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).
- Achieve type certification with FAA and international regulators (UAE GCAA).
- Expand manufacturing scale with Stellantis partnership and build out vertiport infrastructure.
- Continue aircraft testing and data collection to validate safety and performance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, mission-driven environment at the forefront of sustainable aviation and electric transportation.
- **Work environment**: Primarily on-site at San Jose, CA HQ; additional offices in Palo Alto, CA; Salinas, CA; Huntington Beach, CA; and Hampshire, UK. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed; emphasis on engineering innovation, flight test operations, and cross-disciplinary teams (AI, software, hardware, design).
- **Engineering culture**: 704 employees in technical roles (39%); active hiring for backend, AI, embedded, systems engineering, and flight sciences roles. Strong talent poaching from Tesla, Apple, Joby, Boeing, Lockheed Martin [linkedin.com]
- **Employee rating**: 3.7/5.0 (118 reviews) – Career 3.8, Compensation 3.7, Culture 3.4, Work-Life 3.0 [linkedin.com]

## Sources
1. [archer.com](https://www.archer.com)
2. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/archer56/jobs/7625743003)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flyarcher)

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