Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Android

Posted on 1/23/2025

Saturn

Saturn

51-200 employees

Time-based social calendar for students

Compensation Overview

$165k - $210k/yr

+ Stock options

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Kotlin
Amplitude
Android Development
Requirements
  • 5+ years of relevant Android product development experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English
  • Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor and motivate team
  • An extensive understanding of Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose and the Android SDK
  • Experience crafting highly performant code and UI layouts, with proficiency in diagnosing performance bottlenecks
  • An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
  • Experience working on consumer-facing products
  • Experience integrating and working with Amplitude (bonus points)
Responsibilities
  • Working on a cross-disciplinary team, leveraging your extensive knowledge and experience building complex apps
  • Partnering with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences
  • Driving a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
  • Developing and owning large user-facing features / epics from design through implementation and launch
  • Shepherding the app architecture through best practices and engineering excellence
  • Playing an important role in leveling up the team’s technical depth and efficiency
  • Getting down in the trenches, writing automated tests and providing high quality feedback in code reviews - no task is beneath you
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience integrating and working with Amplitude (bonus points)

Saturn Technologies creates a time-based social calendar for students. It combines a calendar app with social features so users can manage assignments, homework, and tasks while staying connected with friends. The product works by giving students a shared, interactive schedule where tasks and events can be discussed and coordinated in real time, with basic features available for free and premium features offered via a freemium model. Revenue may come from premium subscriptions, partnerships with schools, and targeted in-app advertising. Saturn’s goal is to help high school and college students organize their time more collaboratively and engagingly, expanding its user base and education-market reach.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$53M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Snap's $44M acquisition validates market demand and provides capital for feature development.
  • Integration into Snapchat enables seamless calendar sharing within largest Gen Z messaging platform.
  • Recent security updates addressing verification and unverified user restrictions improve parent and educator trust.

What critics are saying

  • New York AG settlement ($650K, 2025) proves Saturn failed verification; predators accessed 350+ student profiles.
  • Snap integration dilutes Saturn standalone brand; operational shutdown likely within 6-12 months post-acquisition.
  • Linked social profiles (TikTok, Instagram, Venmo) expose student location data; COPPA enforcement action probable.

What makes Saturn unique

  • Calendar-first social network uniquely designed for high school student scheduling and coordination.
  • Snap acquisition provides distribution to 400M+ users and integration into Snapchat ecosystem.
  • Verification system now requires school email confirmation, limiting access to authenticated students.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

1%
7inch
Jun 22nd, 2025
Snap Inc acquires social calendar app Saturn to deepen Gen Z engagement

Saturn had previously raised $44 million in funding from investors including General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Coatue, Bezos Expeditions, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

Engadget
Jun 20th, 2025
Snap Acquires Saturn for $44M

Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app popular in high schools, with plans to integrate social calendar features into Snapchat. The deal includes nearly 30 Saturn employees joining Snap. Saturn will continue as a standalone service, with potential Snapchat integration. Saturn, founded by Dylan Diamond and Max Baron, previously raised $44 million from investors like Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos.

Entrepreneur Media
May 29th, 2024
Saturn Secures $40M+ Investment for App

Dylan Diamond and Max Baron, co-founders of Saturn, launched the calendar app in 2017 while at the University of Pennsylvania. Initially inspired by a schedule-sharing app Diamond created in high school, Saturn supports complex high school schedules. The app gained significant traction, leading to a $40 million+ investment. Diamond and Baron eventually left college to focus on Saturn full-time.

Saturn
Aug 24th, 2023
Gabe Lupin Joins Saturn as VP of Product

Joinsaturn is thrilled to announce Gabe Lupin has joined the Saturn team.

Saturn
Aug 17th, 2023
More Safety Improvements for Students

Joinsaturn has released a new version of saturn-its second in a week-that raises the bar for security.

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