Staff Mobile (Android) - Shared Services

Role Overview

As a Staff Mobile Engineer (Android) in Shared Services, you establish technical standards and raise the excellence bar for the engineering team. You work with the engineering head to set the technical direction for the Android app across Growth, Onboarding and Shared Experience. You solve cross-team problems such as app architecture, performance, release quality and secure KYC flows, and you raise the level of every Android engineer around you. You stay hands-on for the most critical parts of the app.

• Define the Android architecture and long-term technical direction for features that span several teams.
• Lead the design of shared components, libraries and modular app structure that teams can reuse.
• Review critical designs and give architectural guidance for high-impact mobile initiatives.
• Set standards for app performance, stability, security, accessibility and testing.
• Drive improvements to build speed, CI/CD, release process and crash-free rate.
• Lead investigations of complex production issues and drive lasting fixes.
• Partner with Engineering Managers, backend leads, Design and Product on cross-team delivery.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and grow Android expertise across the organization.
• Stay hands-on with implementation for critical and complex parts of the app.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 8+ years of professional mobile engineering, with a proven record of leading architecture for large consumer Android apps.
• Languages & Frameworks: Expert in Kotlin and the Android SDK; deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, dependency injection and modular architecture.
• Architecture & Quality: Strong in clean architecture, testing strategy, performance profiling, app size and startup optimization.
• Security & Integration: Experience with secure storage, authentication, API design with backend teams and protecting sensitive user data.
• Release Engineering: Experience with CI/CD, staged rollouts, feature flags and managing release health at scale.
• Mindset & Domain: Background in fintech or another high-scale, regulated consumer product. Strong communication, with the ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.