Jobs in Whitby, Kanada

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

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Senior Android Engineer | Acorns

Acorns is seeking a talented Senior Android Engineer for our team. We are looking for someone with a background building rich, scalable software, who thrives solving complex engineering problems with simple, elegant solutions. As a Senior Android Engineer, your typical week will involve collaborating with Product, Design, and other engineering teams such as iOS, Web, backend, and QA, to plan and build out new features and infrastructure. We have a Kotlin codebase that uses MVVM architecture and a combination of Jetpack Compose and XML views.

You will be joining a highly autonomous and passionate engineering organization that promotes a customer first, result driven and collaborative culture. You’ll have the opportunity to further shape and build a strong engineering culture as well as collaborate with our talented design, product, education and marketing teams to drive growth for our business.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

What you will do at Acorns:

• Work on a key Product team building and developing exciting new features for our customers

• Participate in refinement, grooming, and overall planning of team work

• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders across Product and Design to help refine and create requirements

• Work with your direct manager and team to help establish priorities, estimate timelines, and ensure we hit communicated deadlines

• Mentor less senior team members and act as a force multiplier across the team and organization

What you will bring to Acorns:

• 7 - 9 years of professional software experience with 5+ years of professional experience developing native Android applications

• Deep knowledge of native Android applications built in Kotlin

• Ability to weigh and communicate the pros and cons of different approaches and solutions to problems

• Experience building high-performance, dynamic UI with Jetpack Compose

• Solid understanding of Object Oriented (OO) application design and development

• Experience working in a collaborative team environment with a version-control system like git

• Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns such as MVVM, Repository pattern, and Inversion of Control

• Extensive experience with unit testing; screenshot testing experience is a plus

• Familiarity with continuous integration, monitoring and metrics tooling (such as Amplitude and Datadog), and experience working in a feature flag driven organization that uses trunk-based development

• Familiarity with the basic principles of dependency injection. Past experience with Dagger a plus

• Embody a solutions-oriented approach to problems and strives for quality and precision in delivery

• Passionate about making high customer impact and moving key metrics

• Hunger to deliver game-changing products

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options

• A comprehensive benefits package for you and your family

• Flexible work location, hours, and paid time off

• 401(k) discretionary match

• Monthly Acorns account contribution & GoHenry account for your family

• Mindfulness and Financial Wellness resources, Headspace and Addition Wealth

• Acorns Career Development Program (Ongoing training sessions, development plans, development check-ins, Cornerstone’s online training platform)

• Roots Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders

• Community week onsite gatherings and various virtual events

• Talented and motivated team members who care deeply about one another, our mission, and our customers.

• The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges.

About Acorns:

Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps everyday people and families save and invest money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a global company with multiple life stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults, and parents. Named one of Time’s “World’s Best Brands of 2024,” Acorns has helped over 13 million people save & invest over $22 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

Compensation Information:

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $184,500 and $217,100/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, equity grants, and discretionary cash bonus awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Work Authorization:
Acorns participates in E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information about E-Verify, please visitwww.e-verify.gov