Android Engineer

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, and help us build and improve financial services that empower millions of users. As a fully remote Android Engineer, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams to design and develop features for internal field operations tools. You will investigate user feedback, resolve system bugs, and drive technical design discussions. You will also actively pair with colleagues, perform code reviews, and work closely with other Android engineers to enhance our processes. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of professional experience, including 2 years building Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Wave offers competitive salaries, a generous equity package, subsidized health insurance, retirement contributions, paid parental leave, flexible vacation, and charitable donation matching.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with minimum 2 years of it spent building Android applications
• Experience using Kotlin + Jetpack Compose in a published app (professional or personal projects are fine)
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product to design and build features for the tools used by our internal field operations teams
• Investigate user feedback and resolve system bugs
• Drive technical design discussions and direction
• Actively pair with others and perform code reviews
• Work closely with other Android engineers in the company to improve the way we do things

Preferred Qualifications

• French is a plus
• Reflexively ask yourself, “is this code the best way to make my users happy?”
• Push through hard problems without giving up
• Enjoy helping other engineers on your team to improve their frontend skills
• Are not afraid to take on complicated systems
• Are excited to learn to do some amount of backend work or even branch out to doing Android work - we love folks who are keen to broaden their skill sets!
• Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code
• Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching