Android Software Engineer

Android Software Engineer

About the company :

We're a mission-driven fintech using AI to widen access to credit for people the formal financial system has historically left behind. Our apps have been installed more than 50 million times across markets in India and Africa, where non-traditional data and machine learning let us assess and lend to customers whom conventional scoring would turn away. With investors that include Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, and the IFC behind us, we pair measurable social impact with engineering built for scale.

In India, we're a regulated digital lender and RBI-classified Middle Layer NBFC managing an AUM of around ?2,000 crore, serving customers nationwide with products they can genuinely trust. More than 250 of us work here across product, engineering, data science, risk, and operations, and the team is expanding quickly to solve problems that matter at real scale.

About the role :

In this role, you'll help move our mobile app forward, shipping features, sharpening performance, and having a genuine say in its technical direction alongside your teammates. You'll be embedded in a single team and focused on landing that team's goals and initiatives.

Day to day, you'll work shoulder to shoulder with fellow Android engineers, product and engineering managers, and designers to crack technical problems and deliver an experience that feels fast and dependable. Code reviews, technical debates, and everyday collaboration are all part of the job.

You'll own features and projects outright, carrying them from first commit to release. And you'll have room to raise ideas, propose improvements, and weigh in on the team's technical and architectural direction.

We're a company obsessed with our customers, undaunted by obstacles, and guided by data. On the engineering side, innovation flows from the bottom up and decisions are made close to the work: we're convinced a great idea is as likely to come from a new joiner as a veteran, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels free to put forward answers to whatever's blocking us. We want people who do their best work in a fast-moving, inventive, customer-first environment.

What you'll do :

- Build and refine features in our Android app, crafting mobile experiences that are smooth, dependable, and easy to use.

- Partner with backend teams to wire up APIs and bring new product capabilities to life, making sure the app talks cleanly to backend systems and services.

- Lift performance, stability, and the overall feel of the app by squashing bugs, driving down crash rates, and making everything quicker and more dependable.

- Partner with product, design, and fellow engineers to turn requirements into shipped features that move the team's goals forward.

- Maintain and extend our hooks into external providers for payments, sign-in, analytics, and marketing, keeping them solid as the product evolves.

- Show up for code reviews, design discussions, and the everyday back-and-forth of a team, trading ideas, learning from others, and keeping engineering standards high.

- Own features and projects from build through release, accountable for quality work and a clean rollout to users.

- Help raise the bar on clean code, test coverage, and long-term maintainability so the app stays robust and scalable as it grows.

What we're looking for :

- 2+ years building and releasing Android apps that real people use in production.

- Solid grasp of Android development with Kotlin, plus current Android practices and frameworks.

- Strong command of building UI in Jetpack Compose you're at ease creating responsive, reusable components, handling screen state cleanly, and working within current Android architecture patterns.

- Hands-on experience wiring features into RESTful services and backend endpoints; bonus points for having integrated external providers for sign-in, analytics, payments, or messaging.

- Deep familiarity with profiling Android performance, tracking down crashes, and hardening the app for stability and reliability.

- A curiosity for new technology and a willingness to learn parts of the stack beyond mobile when the work calls for it.

- Genuinely fluent with AI-assisted coding tools, and able to say where they add value and where they fall short.

- Clear, well-structured communication in writing and speech, and comfort working effectively async.

Working with AI :

- AI fluency is a baseline expectation. You use it to sharpen your thinking, not outsource it decomposing problems before you prompt so you stay in control of the architecture.

- You review AI output as rigorously as human code, with a nose for plausible-but-wrong solutions and tests that pass without proving anything. You own the final result and can articulate exactly why you overrode a suggestion.

- You curate what context a tool sees to keep signal high, and you sense when a prompt speeds you up versus when a problem calls for quiet, independent thought.

- You take AI-era security seriously prompt injection, data leakage, secret handling because "agentic" should never mean "unguarded."

- You automate the repetitive so your focus stays on the decisions that genuinely need a human.

- You keep pace with a fast-moving landscape, understand the tools you rely on, and raise your own ceiling as they improve.

Skills

API Integration, Kotlin, Android Studio, Firebase, Java, Android SDK, Data Structure, Android, Mobile App Designing, Mobile App Architecture