An end-to-end digital banking solution for banks and credit unions
Lead Android Engineer
Location
Canada
Posted
35 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Android Engineer
Bankjoy
• Own the Android technical roadmap — architectural decisions, technology choices, and long-term platform direction • Define and enforce Android engineering standards across the team including code quality, testing practices, and release readiness • Lead solution design for new features and major platform initiatives, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability • Drive adoption of modern Android development practices — Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, coroutines, and dependency injection • Partner with iOS Tech Lead and backend engineering to ensure consistent cross-platform product behavior and API contract alignment • Own Android delivery across digital banking value streams — planning, estimation, milestone tracking, and risk management • Break down complex initiatives into executable engineering tasks with clear dependencies and timelines • Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers before they impact release schedules • Collaborate with QA to define Android-specific testing strategy — unit, integration, and UI automation using Espresso or equivalent • Participate in the on-call rotation for production support, responding to urgent issues impacting financial institution clients and their members • Contribute directly to feature development, code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization within the digital banking value stream • Maintain a meaningful individual coding contribution while balancing technical leadership responsibilities • Champion clean, testable, well-documented Kotlin code across the Android codebase • Directly manage three Android engineers — conducting regular 1:1s, providing performance feedback, and supporting their technical growth • Foster a collaborative, high-trust team environment that emphasizes engineering excellence and continuous learning • Mentor engineers on Android best practices, fintech domain knowledge, and effective cross-functional collaboration • Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, onboarding, and growing Android engineering capability • Work closely with Product Management and Design to shape feature scope, assess feasibility, and provide accurate effort estimates • Collaborate with backend engineers on API design and integration patterns for mobile banking flows • Align with QA on automation coverage strategy — supporting the organization's migration to modern mobile testing frameworks • Partner with DevOps on Android build pipelines, release automation, and CI/CD integration • Strictly adhere to security protocols when handling customer financial data • Apply knowledge of mobile security best practices — certificate pinning, secure storage, biometric authentication, and session management — in a regulated banking environment • Ensure Android implementations meet applicable financial services compliance requirements
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of Android development experience with deep Kotlin expertise
- 2+ years in a tech lead or senior engineering leadership role managing direct reports
- Strong proficiency in Jetpack Compose and modern Android UI development
- Solid understanding of Android architecture patterns — MVVM, Clean Architecture, Repository pattern
- Experience with coroutines, Flow, and reactive programming patterns
- Proficiency with dependency injection frameworks — Hilt or Dagger
- Experience with Android testing frameworks — JUnit, Espresso, Mockk
- Familiarity with RESTful API integration and mobile networking patterns
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for Android — GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or equivalent
- Proficiency with version control workflows — Git, pull request reviews, branching strategies
Benefits
- We cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for individuals on our base plan, with significant contributions toward all other plan options (USA).
- We cover 100% of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family under our single, comprehensive plan (Canada).
- Retirement plan with 4% company matching
- 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing
- 3-5 weeks PTO depending on tenure
- 5 health days
- 15 holidays
- End of year shutdown
- Performance-based bonuses
- Remote first culture
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