HiltWorker not working after app get killed

Hi. Using HiltWorker and HiltWorkerFactory works just fine when the app is alive, but after it gets killed, the worker won't initialize. When commenting out every hilt-related code, including the provider in the manifest, the worker works after app killing.

my code: worker -

@HiltWorker
class NotificationWorker @AssistedInject constructor(
    @Assisted val appContext: Context,
    @Assisted workerParams: WorkerParameters,
//   injected classes...
) : Worker(appContext, workerParams) {...}

App -

@HiltAndroidApp
class KorenApplication : Application(), Configuration.Provider {
    @Inject
    lateinit var workerFactory: HiltWorkerFactory

    override fun getWorkManagerConfiguration() =
        Configuration.Builder()
            .setWorkerFactory(workerFactory)
            .setMinimumLoggingLevel(android.util.Log.VERBOSE)
            .build()
}

manifest - tried both

<provider
    android:name="androidx.startup.InitializationProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.androidx-startup"
    tools:node="remove">
 </provider>

and

 <provider
    android:name="androidx.startup.InitializationProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.androidx-startup"
    android:exported="false"
    tools:node="merge">
    <!-- If you are using androidx.startup to initialize other components -->
    <meta-data
        android:name="androidx.work.WorkManagerInitializer"
        android:value="androidx.startup"
        tools:node="remove" />
 </provider>

logs when trying to start the worker:

2022-01-20 14:54:01.061 24083-24083/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/NetworkSecurityConfig: No Network Security Config specified, using platform default
2022-01-20 14:54:01.079 24083-24083/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/NetworkSecurityConfig: No Network Security Config specified, using platform default
2022-01-20 14:54:01.247 24083-24083/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-PackageManagerHelper: androidx.work.impl.background.systemjob.SystemJobService enabled
2022-01-20 14:54:01.326 24083-24123/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-SystemJobScheduler: Scheduling work ID d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478 Job ID 27
2022-01-20 14:54:01.339 24083-24123/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-GreedyScheduler: Starting work for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.347 24083-24127/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-Processor: WorkerWrapper could not be found for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.350 24083-24127/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-GreedyScheduler: Cancelling work ID d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.369 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-PackageManagerHelper: androidx.work.impl.background.systemalarm.RescheduleReceiver enabled
2022-01-20 14:54:01.380 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-SystemJobScheduler: Scheduling work ID 7a0f42ab-87c1-48bb-a87d-670a5736ace9 Job ID 28
2022-01-20 14:54:01.384 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-Processor: Processor stopping background work d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.384 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: Work interrupted for null
2022-01-20 14:54:01.386 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: WorkSpec null is already done. Not interrupting.
2022-01-20 14:54:01.386 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-Processor: WorkerWrapper interrupted for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.387 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-StopWorkRunnable: StopWorkRunnable for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478; Processor.stopWork = true
2022-01-20 14:54:01.389 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-Processor: Processor stopping background work d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.389 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: Work interrupted for null
2022-01-20 14:54:01.390 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: WorkSpec null is already done. Not interrupting.
2022-01-20 14:54:01.390 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-Processor: WorkerWrapper interrupted for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478
2022-01-20 14:54:01.391 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-StopWorkRunnable: StopWorkRunnable for d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478; Processor.stopWork = true
2022-01-20 14:54:01.393 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: Work interrupted for Work [ id=d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478, tags={ ... } ]
2022-01-20 14:54:01.397 24083-24129/com.maatayim.koren.dev D/WM-WorkerWrapper: Work interrupted for Work [ id=d97cd55d-1f9f-404f-bd26-84bd26029478, tags={ ... } ]

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HiltWorker not working after app get killed #3177