Senior Android Engineer

Job Description

Senior Android Engineer - Android Application | Fintech | Remote | VC backed

Description

Who we are:

We believe entrepreneurship is essential to prosperity, so we make running a business easier, by building mobile-first enterprise software for micro-merchants in Africa.

We are developing an android application allowing merchants to run their entire business from their phone. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.

The future of commerce for micro merchants is centered around their phone. We’re one of the early players in this high growth space and we have just begun.

The start-up is backed by a number of high profile Venture capitalists 468 Capital, Presight Ventures, Jigsaw.

About the role:

We are seeking a Senior Android Engineer who will be key in developing our new native Android applications with the help of a cross functional team. You will play an important part in our mobile engineering practice, implementing new features, improving performance, and building beautiful user interfaces.

The Senior Android Engineer will report directly to the CPO.

You will work with an incredibly passionate, multi talented group of seasoned entrepreneurs dedicated to solving complicated problems in Africa.

Your impact:

• Implement pixel-perfect designs, design and deliver application architecture and code that is highly scalable, available, maintainable, and performant
• Optimize UI for performance for low-end devices.
• Ensure our mobile applications thrive in low data and power availability environments
• Stay up-to-speed with new technologies (particularly on Android), and test the promising ones to make sure we don’t miss out on game-changing opportunities.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Manage the Google Play release and distribution process

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in building high quality Android applications, and a strong knowledge of Android app design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Highly experienced with Java or Kotlin, MVVM architecture, DI(Dagger) and Coroutines and are passionate about simple, well structured, testable code
• Hands on experience with versioning tools (Git) and practical knowledge of REST APIs
• Experience working with A/B testing tools would be advantageous

Benefits

• Be part of a small, talent dense team changing commerce in Africa
• An opportunity to guide and lead the design and implementation a platform that will change the future of commerce for micro merchants in Africa
• Option to be paid in digital currency
• A competitive salary - our budget for this role is USD 93,000 per annum
• Work fully remote