Junior Android Engineer

You'll be diving deep into a modern stack, using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Coroutines to improve our passenger experience with the ultimate goal of shaping the future of urban mobility. You'll join a multinational, collaborative team that prioritizes excellence, is championing best practices, provides learning and mentoring, while having a bit of fun.

• Crafting Cutting-Edge Android Features: Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of robust features in our versatile Android application.
• End-to-End Mobile Ownership: Take ownership of feature development and technical improvements on the Android platform, from initial ideation and technical design to seamless deployment and ongoing monitoring within our live environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers and UI/UX designers to translate complex business needs into intuitive and impactful mobile solutions.
• Embracing Innovation: Explore and integrate new Android technologies, libraries and tools into our mobile development workflows and user experience.
• Driving Technical Excellence: Play an active role in shaping our mobile development best practices, contributing your ideas to evolve our architecture, tools, and processes, helping the team grow and improve together.
• Ensuring Mobile Reliability: Maintain the stability and performance of our Android applications through thoughtful monitoring, robust alerting, and continuous delivery practices, ensuring a smooth experience for our users.
• Championing the Android Ecosystem: Engage with our broader mobile and engineering communities, sharing knowledge, discussing the latest Android tech trends, and fostering continuous learning across Freenow.
• Thriving in a Collaborative Culture: Be part of a dynamic culture that champions transparency, efficiency, mutual respect and continuous learning, recognizing individual contributions and fostering collective growth.

Our Techstack: Kotlin | Spring | Go | PostgreSQL | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka & more

• You have strong experience with Native Android development

• You are comfortable with - or are confident learning - technologies like Kotlin, Coroutines, Hilt and Compose.

• You take ownership of your work and actively look for ways to improve code quality, architecture and processes.

• You thrive in a collaborative, self-organized team environment where knowledge sharing and open communication are valued.

• You are open-minded, adaptable and enjoy working with both technically deep and product-focused team members.

• You are highly motivated by a purpose-driven environment where your strengths are recognized and nurtured.

• You are excited about contributing to a team that celebrates achievements, fosters growth and continuously evolves.

• You are a creative problem solver who enjoys finding innovative solutions to engineering challenges.

• You communicate clearly and confidently in English, both verbally and in writing.

• Flexible working arrangements

We are Freenow, the European taxi app with the broadest multi-mobility offering, available in 9 markets and over 180 cities. Our app gives millions of passengers the freedom to move with a wide choice of services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds and public transport.Headquartered in Hamburg and led by our CEO Thomas Zimmermann, we are on a mission to make urban mobility more efficient, sustainable and inclusive.Since July 2025 we have been part of Lyft, a global mobility platform connecting riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together we are building a more caring and connected world, creating new opportunities for innovation, growth and impact.