Lead Android Developer

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of professional Android development.
• Expert-level knowledge of:
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Android Architecture Components
• MVVM/MVI and Clean Architecture
• Multi-module application architectures
• Coroutines and Flow
• Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
• WorkManager and background processing
• Mobile performance optimization
• Application security and secure storage
• Google Play release management and rollout strategies
• Demonstrated experience designing and evolving enterprise-scale Android architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and distributed systems, including:
• Microservices architecture
• API-first development
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• Event-driven architecture
• Message-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent)
• Domain-driven design
• Cloud-native application patterns
• Scalability and resiliency design
• Proven experience designing and documenting technical solutions, architecture diagrams, and engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of backend application architecture and API platforms, including Java/Kotlin-based services and modern web application architectures.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, and enterprise security practices.
• Experience implementing observability practices including metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, performance monitoring, and production diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, and release governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions with engineers, architects, product managers, and senior leadership.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to think beyond mobile development and contribute to end-to-end solution architecture across applications, APIs, services, and enterprise platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing enterprise-scale financial services, banking, payments, or expense management platforms.
• Experience designing solutions for workflow management, approval systems, policy engines, and business process automation.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience deploying and operating applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
• Experience building backend services using Java, Kotlin, or Spring Boot.
• Experience with observability platforms, application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, analytics, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with mobile security, encryption, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), biometric authentication, and secure credential management.
• Experience with iOS development, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, or React Native.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools, developer productivity platforms, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical systems with large-scale transaction volumes.
• Experience leading cross-functional architecture reviews and driving technical alignment across multiple engineering organizations.