Android Engineer

Trove; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free health insurance

Flexible time off

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Trove in NYC is seeking an Android Engineer to join our early-stage team. You'll build our Android app from its earliest foundations, working closely with the founders, product, design, and engineering teams to shape the product from the ground up.

You'll thrive in a fast-moving environment, roll up your sleeves, and make critical architectural decisions while delivering features that feel native and polished. This role offers meaningful equity and in-person hybrid work in NYC.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping a consumer Android app.
• Proven ability to own features end-to-end.
• Comfort with ambiguous startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect core product systems that will scale long term.
• Design and implement high-fidelity, animation-heavy user experiences.
• Partner with Product and Design to turn ambiguous ideas into clean, intuitive flows.
• Ship experiments quickly, then iterate and expand on what works.
• Improve app performance, responsiveness, and reliability at scale.
• Implement networking layers and real-time updates that power live marketplace activity.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed and maintainability.
• Set the bar for code quality, architecture, and engineering culture.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android app architecture

Job description

Location: NYC (in office 3 days per week)

We’re looking for an Android Engineer to join our early stage team. We\'ve already launched on iOS and now we\'re bringing Trove to Android, which means you\'ll build our app from its earliest foundations. You\'ll work closely with the founders, product, design, and engineering teams to shape our new app from the ground up. Your contributions will meaningfully influence the direction of the product, the engineering culture, and the standards we set as we grow.

We\'re looking for someone who thrives in the energy of a founding team where priorities evolve, constraints are real, and momentum matters. You should be excited to roll up your sleeves, make critical architectural decisions, and build systems that support rapid product evolution without compromising the user experience.

The right person has strong empathy for the end user and appreciates clean, functional design. You should care about craft, performance, and the details that make an experience feel effortless. This is a hands-on role in a fast moving environment where ideas turn into shipped features quickly, and where you\'ll help determine not just how things are built, but how they function and feel.

On any given week, you might:

• Architect core product systems that will scale long term
• Design and implement high-fidelity, animation-heavy user experiences
• Partner with Product and Design to turn ambiguous ideas into clean, intuitive flows
• Ship experiments quickly, then iterate and expand on what works
• Improve app performance, responsiveness, and reliability at scale
• Implement networking layers and real-time updates that power live marketplace activity
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed and maintainability
• Set the bar for code quality, architecture, and engineering culture

You have experience and success in these areas:

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Shipping and scaling a highly interactive consumer app
• Standing up or substantially shaping an Android app from an early stage
• Building complex, stateful interfaces that feel simple
• Owning features end-to-end, from design through launch
• Collaborating closely with founders, designers, and backend engineers
• Moving forward with incomplete information and executing despite ambiguity
• Building for marketplace, fintech, gaming, or social apps

What success looks like:

• Trove has a top-tier, category-defining Android app
• Complex actions like buying, opening, selling, and redeeming feel simple and intuitive
• The Android experience feels native to the platform, and reaches parity with iOS without sacrificing quality
• The app is fast, stable, and scales cleanly
• Our architecture supports rapid iteration without accumulating technical debt
• Engineering quality becomes a visible differentiator for the company
• The experience feels polished and intuitive, with a level of design quality users recognize and trust

About us:

We’re building a new kind of collectibles company from the ground up. Trove lets you buy and open packs digitally, then choose to keep, sell, or physically redeem cards. We’re just getting started but our team is led by proven entrepreneurs with multiple exits and has raised capital from top tier investors.

We know that putting together a talented, passionate group of people is the most important part of building a business. Our bar is high and our results are exceptional. This is an environment where you’ll feel challenged, grow beyond what you’ve done before, and visibly see how your work impacts the business. Our job is to give you what you need and get out of your way.

Beyond that, we offer highly competitive comp, free health insurance, flexible time off, and meaningful equity so you’ll share in the company’s success. The team is headquartered in NYC and hiring for flexible in-person work.