Tala is hiring a
Senior Android Engineer, Remote - Kenya

Summary

Tala is a global technology company that offers financial services to underbanked individuals. The Android Engineer will act as an expert in Android development, Kotlin, Rx, Retrofit/OkHttp, Dagger, architectural patterns MVVM and MVP, CLEAN design, modularization, unit testing, and integration testing. The successful candidate will onboard new contractors, provide training, lead the product features for their area of expertise, and contribute to the Android full-time staff.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience
• 4+ years of Android experience
• 3+ years of Kotlin experience
• 2+ apps in the Google Play store
• Android, Kotlin, Rx, Retrofit/OkHttp, Dagger, architectural patterns MVVM and MVP, CLEAN design including repos and use cases, modularization, unit testing and integration testing
• Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Jetpack navigation and Coroutine Flows

Responsibilities

• Act as an ‘anchor’ position on the Android full-time staff
• Act as the subject matter expert on not only Android in general, but also a specific slice of the Tala infrastructure (which will rotate over time)
• ���Anchor’ the subject matter knowledge and allow other staff and/or contractors to seamlessly transition into and out of the group
• Have product feature responsibilities (must deliver features) plus intra-group responsibilities (lead, train, PR review, participate in the Android Guild, etc)