Senior Software Engineer, Mobile

Company: Mixpanel, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips-no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.About the Role:Mixpanel's mobile SDKs power event tracking and rich analytics across thousands of mobile applications. Our SDKs are critical to enabling cross-platform behavioral analytics. We're expanding our small but mighty mobile team to build the next generation of our SDK offerings, starting with Session Replay on mobile.We're looking for a talented Android engineer (with bonus points for cross-platform experience) who's passionate about building robust, high-performance libraries used by thousands of developers and millions of users. This is a high-impact role where you'll own key parts of the SDK stack and help shape the future of our mobile analytics offerings.What You'll Do:

• Design and build features such as Session Replay, Autocapture, and Feature Flags into SDKs for Android and other mobile platforms
• Develop and maintain Mixpanel's suite of mobile SDKs, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability across platforms
• Lead technical projects end-to-end, from design through rollout and maintenance
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, and GTM to define and prioritize initiatives
• Help drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for mobile analytics
• Explore new mobile frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter, Unity) and extend SDK support accordingly
• Balance technical excellence, user experience, and business impact
• Navigate ambiguity, solve complex problems, and help shape product directionWhat We're Looking For:
  • Expertise in Android development (Kotlin or Java), especially in building SDKs or developer tools
  • Experience shipping libraries or frameworks used by external developers - we love folks who think like platform engineers
  • Bonus: Experience with iOS development (Swift / Objective-C), React Native, Flutter, or Unity
  • Bonus: Contributions to open source projects or public developer communities
  • Deep knowledge of memory management, threading, and mobile system internals
  • Strong debugging skills and an appreciation for writing safe, scalable, crash-free code
  • Curiosity and initiative - you love figuring things out and diving into unfamiliar territory
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skillsCulture Values
    • Be Open:When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
    • Customer Focus:Our customers' success is our success
    • Lead Change:Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
    • Results Oriented:Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
    • One Team:We can't win without each otherThe amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here .
      
      Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.$229,500 - $280,500 USDBenefits and Perks
      • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
      • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
      • Enhanced Parental Leave
      • Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*Culture Values
        • Be Open: When knowledge becomes open, we can come together as a team to collaborate around a shared purpose
        • Customer Focus: Our customers' success is our success
        • Lead Change: Everyone at Mixpanel has the capacity to make an impact on the business
        • Results Oriented: Driving results in a measurable way ensures we stay focused on the highest impact initiatives
        • One Team: We can't win without each otherWhy choose Mixpanel?We're a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel's pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you'll be helping the world's most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter-our people, our customers, our partners-out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. 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