Senior Android Engineer

At Backbase we build secure, enterprise-grade digital banking software used daily by

millions of people worldwide. As a Senior Android Engineer, you will join one of the core

teams in our R&D department and will be responsible for driving the development of our

product, following and improving our way of working, enforcing and refining our best

practices, all the while contributing to create a strong engineering culture. Your mission is to

help create the best banking experience for our customers.

You will help design, build and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile

Platform.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary squad that is responsible for delivering end-to-end

solutions, from initial concept to fruition in one of our production-ready applications. You will

be tasked with addressing complex business requirements and with translating them into

technical designs and implementations. You will be expected to deliver high-quality,

well-engineered software that is performant, clean and is easy to maintain.

As a squad member, you will contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from

gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests,

documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and

partners.

• You have 6+ years of relevant working experience working on complex

Android-based products, with at least 2+ years in a Senior role;

• You are strongly proficient in Kotlin;
• You have technical experience with architecture patterns like MVP, MVVM, MVI,

Clean architecture or other scalable architectures;

• You have technical experience with building and shipping modular Android libraries

and SDKs and decorated APIs;

• You have solid experience building complex UI with XML-based layouts and Jetpack

Compose;

• You have solid understanding of multithreading and structured concurrency with

Kotlin Coroutines and Flow;

• You have technical experience with unit testing, UI testing, snapshot testing and

debugging tools like Layout Inspector, Android Profiler and ADB;

• You have technical experience with SDLC processes and CI/CD automation, strong

knowledge of Gradle, familiar with Github Actions or Bitrise, and deployment tools;

• You have technical experience with Gradle plugins development.

Non-functional & Soft Skills requirements:

• You have a strong sense of ownership;
• You are a result-oriented engineer who is familiar with Agile software development

practices and methodologies;

• You have hands-on technical experience with non-functional features such as

security, performance and accessibility;

• You have strong communication, coaching and leadership skills and can thrive in a

complex domain;

• You are accustomed to translating high-level business requirements into technical

designs and coach your peers to do the same;

• You understand the value of proper documentation, automation and other aspects of

a modern software development lifecycle.

Bonus & nice to have:

• You have banking domain experience;
• You are familiar with Figma;
• You have experience working in an international environment