A founding Senior Android Engineer will design, build, and maintain secure, high-performance features for a financial intelligence platform using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks. This role involves shaping long-term mobile architecture and collaborating with product, design, and backend teams to deliver a trusted, user-centered experience for managing financial data.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain core Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, AndroidX, and Coroutines
- Create smooth and intuitive user experiences that support complex financial workflows
- Lead end-to-end feature development from architecture and implementation to testing and release
- Define and implement architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, and Clean Architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and long-term growth
- Optimize app performance, responsiveness, data persistence, and behavior across online and offline states
- Ensure correctness and reliability in a regulated financial environment
- Integrate mobile applications with backend APIs, financial data systems, and third-party services
- Collaborate with backend engineers to design efficient API interactions and enable real-time data synchronization
- Implement secure handling of sensitive financial data in compliance with industry standards
- Enforce encryption, secure storage, authentication flows, and session management protocols
- Build with the rigor required for high-trust, regulated financial applications
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver cohesive, user-focused features
- Participate in architectural planning, technical discussions, and code reviews
- Promote engineering excellence through thorough documentation, testing, and raising technical standards
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional Android development experience with a proven history of building, shipping, and maintaining large-scale production Android apps
- Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin and deep familiarity with modern Android development practices
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end development of Android features or full applications, from design through release and ongoing maintenance
- Proven ability to design, implement, and evolve Android architectures such as MVVM, MVI, and Clean Architecture, with thoughtful tradeoffs for scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Extensive hands-on experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks including Jetpack Compose, AndroidX, Coroutines, and related tooling
- Deep knowledge of secure data handling, including encryption, authentication and authorization flows, key management, and Android security best practices
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues related to performance, memory, threading, and real-world device limitations
- Strong communication skills with experience collaborating across functions and articulating technical decisions in fast-moving environments
- Experience leading by example, conducting high-quality code reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving team-wide technical standards
- Passion for building high-quality software with a mindset of continuous improvement and staying current with Android platform advancements
- Clear and effective communicator who takes ownership, acts with urgency, and drives initiatives to completion
Tech Stack
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, AndroidX, Coroutines, MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Android SDK, API integration, Encryption, Authentication/Authorization flows, Key management, Secure storage, Session management
Benefits
- Ownership & Impact: Help shape the future of AI-powered financial technology by building a globally used, category-defining product
- Elite Team: Join a leadership team with a proven track record of scaling startups from early stages to major exits
- Principles-Driven Culture: Work in an environment that prioritizes speed, ownership, and measurable impact—achieving in 45 days what others do in 90
- Comprehensive Compensation Package: Includes competitive base salary, equity, and a full suite of benefits
- Paid health, vision, dental, and disability coverage
Compensation
Compensation Range (New York City): $169,000 – $202,000; Compensation Range (Denver Metro): $149,000 – $178,000. Equity is included in the compensation package. A robust benefits package includes paid health, vision, dental, and disability coverage.
Work Arrangement
hybrid — NYC metro, Denver metro — hybrid for NYC metro; remote for Denver metro with expectation of periodic in-person collaboration
Team
founding team; collaborative engineering team working alongside product managers, designers, and backend engineers
- Ownership & Impact
- Elite Team
- Principles-Driven Culture
- Speed, ownership, and impact
- High standards
- Long-term impact
- Meaningful problems
- Engineering excellence
Additional Information
- This role is hybrid for candidates in the NYC metro area and remote for those in the Denver metro area
- Periodic in-person collaboration is expected
- Final compensation will vary based on experience, skills, internal leveling, and market conditions
- The posted salary range reflects base pay across market ranges for each location
- The company complies with applicable pay transparency laws
