Senior Android Engineer

Summary

Join Tala, a leading fintech company, as a Senior Android Engineer and contribute to our life-changing financial services app. You will be responsible for cloning the Android app into the India app and supporting it with feature updates, delivering customer-focused features, establishing best practices for Android engineering, developing complex features, providing guidance on integrating with external partners, and participating in codebase refactoring. This role requires 5+ years of experience as an Android Engineer with expertise in Kotlin, MVVM/coroutines/flows, Jetpack Compose, and AI-aided development. Tala offers a remote-first approach with offices globally and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 5+ years working as an Android Engineer
• Kotlin (3-5 years+)
• MVVM/coroutines/flows (1-3+ years)
• Jetpack Compose (1 year+)
• Expert in AI aided development, including context management and prompt creation. Is up to date on existing technologies including Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. Uses CoPilot, VSCode or similar. Is able to implement AI-created work in many/most situations

Responsibilities

• Responsible for cloning the Android app into the India app, and thereafter supporting it with feature updates
• Deliver customer-focused features that prioritize polish, stability, and security
• Help establish, improve, and exemplify best practices for Android engineering
• Develop/improve complex features for current and future supported countries
• Provide guidance when integrating with external partners (tracking, payment/KYC, support, etc.)
• Participate in refactoring the current codebase to achieve better abstraction and modularization