Lead Android Engineer

Bankjoy; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Stock options

Performance-based bonuses

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement plan with company match

Parental leave

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a Lead Android Engineer to own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of a mobile banking platform. You will lead a small Android team embedded in cross-functional value streams, while coding daily and owning roadmaps in a regulated fintech environment.

You will collaborate with product, design, iOS, QA, backend, and DevOps to deliver secure, high-quality mobile experiences for financial institution clients.

Qualifications

• 6+ years Android development experience with Kotlin.
• 2+ years in a tech lead or senior leadership role managing direct reports.
• Proficiency with Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, Repository pattern, coroutines, and Flow.
• Experience with DI frameworks (Hilt or Dagger) and Android testing frameworks (JUnit, Espresso, MockK).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and mobile networking patterns.
• CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, Bitrise or equivalent).
• Fintech / regulated environment experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Android technical roadmap and architecture.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, and release readiness.
• Lead solution design for features balancing scalability and security.
• Plan, estimate, and track delivery across value streams and manage risks.
• Contribute production code and mentor three direct reports.
• Coordinate with QA and DevOps on test strategy and CI/CD, participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

MVVM / Clean Architecture

Repository pattern

Coroutines / Flow

Dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)

Unit / UI testing (JUnit / Espresso / 

Tools

GitHub Actions

Bitrise

Job description

Role overview

We are hiring a Lead Android Engineer to own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of a mobile banking platform while managing a small team of Android engineers embedded in cross-functional value streams. This is a hands‑on leadership role combining daily production coding with roadmap ownership, architectural decision‑making, and people management in a regulated fintech environment. The position partners closely with product, design, iOS, QA, backend, and DevOps counterparts to deliver secure, high‑quality mobile experiences for financial institution clients.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Android technical roadmap, including architectural decisions, technology selection, and long‑term platform direction
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, release readiness, and modern Android practices such as Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, coroutines, and dependency injection
• Lead solution design for new features and major platform initiatives, balancing scalability, security, and maintainability
• Plan, estimate, and track delivery across digital banking value streams, proactively unblocking the team and managing technical risks
• Contribute production code, review pull requests, debug issues, and optimize performance while mentoring three direct reports through 1:1s, feedback, and growth planning
• Coordinate with QA on Android test strategy (unit, integration, UI automation), with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines and release automation, and participate in on‑call rotation for production support

Requirements

• 6+ years of Android development experience with deep Kotlin expertise
• 2+ years in a tech lead or senior engineering leadership role managing direct reports
• Strong proficiency with Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, Repository pattern, coroutines, and Flow
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks such as Hilt or Dagger, and Android testing frameworks including JUnit, Espresso, and Mockk
• Familiarity with RESTful API integration, mobile networking patterns, and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated success leading Android work in a fintech, banking, or similarly regulated environment, ideally within a squad or value‑stream model with cross‑functional collaboration

Nice to have

• Experience with digital banking products such as mobile banking, account opening, loan origination, or payments
• Familiarity with community bank or credit union technology environments
• Hands‑on mobile security experience in regulated financial services, including certificate pinning, secure storage, and biometric authentication
• Exposure to AI‑assisted development tools such as Codex, Copilot, or Cursor
• Experience migrating Android UI from XML layouts to Jetpack Compose

Benefits and work setup

• Remote‑first culture
• Competitive compensation with stock options
• Performance‑based bonuses
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (USA: 100% individual premiums on base plan; Canada: 100% extended family coverage under a single comprehensive plan)
• Retirement plan with 4% company match
• 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non‑birthing parents
• 3-5 weeks PTO based on tenure, plus 5 health days, 15 holidays, and an end‑of‑year shutdown