Android Engineer
About this role:
Our Android team is relatively small.
We have 9 specialists with combined experience in Android, Kotlin and team
leading. Our Android Engineers are part of our engineering department, which is
always growing. Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe
and Africa.
As a Android Engineer, you will work
in a cross-functional team of android, backend engineers, product managers and
testers. Your main responsibilities will design, develop, and maintain M-KOPA’s
Customer apps, and deliver software that scales with both company and customer
growth.
As part of this role, you will work on
a variety of problems that could include deliver new offers and products to our
customers; Deep diving user journeys using data and implementing focused
updates to address our customers needs; Collaborate with fellow Android
engineers to improve application quality and raise coding standards.
We use Kotlin for our Android apps and
.NET for our backend. Our teams work in a self-organised agile fashion where
they keep track of their work in Azure DevOps, which we also use for our CI/CD.
Our cloud provider is Azure, where our microservices are hosted in Azure
Kubernetes Services. We implement Android applications following clean
architecture principles, unidirectional data flow and jetpack compose.
We are a team of passionate
product-focused engineers committed building and encouraging an environment
where our colleagues feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning
as much as possible.
You’re excited about
this opportunity because:
You like to put your people and
teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work
You like to take a product-focused
approach to development and drive changes using data to guide your decisions
You have the opportunity to identify
gaps in the product experience, influence the project and the way we work
You embrace DevOps mindset and understand
the benefits it brings to the team
Working in a team makes you happy and
you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and
wider business
You will follow software best
practices when handle sensitive data and Protect Personally Identifiable
Information (PII)
You will own releases, support product
teams and troubleshoot issues, driving improvements in our codebase and
standard
You enjoy working in cross functional
domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep diving into features to improve
our users’ lives
Advocate CI / CD best practices and
understand the importance of writing clean code
We’re excited about you because you:
You are excited to work on
product-driven development.
You apply critical thinking to
presented requirements and deliver constructive feedback, while communicating
difficult technical issues clearly.
You have commercial experience in
Android and Kotlin and you prefer taking ownership.
You know how to setup analytics
experiments and make data-driven decisions.
You understand the importance of
testing and you are experience writing clear and reliable tests as well as
aware of testing best practices (i.e. testing pyramid and test automation)
You are experienced with Kotlin
coroutines and structured concurrency
You are familiar with the Jetpack tool
suite and modern Android development practices.
You have previously worked for a
large-scale product and you are familiar with the following: Trunk-based
development, Clean Architecture, Dependency Injection, Uni-directional data
flow (MVI), Feature Toggles, Docker and Azure DevOps
It will be beneficial if you have
device locking, connected asset financing or banking experience
We are looking for someone who is
excited about what we do. You don’t need to be an expert in FinTech but you are
keen to learn and apply our values.
What’s in for you:
Private health insurance (inpatient
outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
Group Life Cover
Remote working (dependent on the
nature of the role)
Airtime allowance (dependent on the
nature of the role)
WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly
(dependent on the nature of the role)
21 days per annum (excluding public
holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month
Annual Learning and Development Fund –
You have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development
Home Office Set Up – this includes a
budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter
On site retreats with wider tech team,
plus trips to operational markets
How to Apply
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