Staff Engineer, Android

Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest. 

At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.

We are looking for a Staff Android Engineer with strong experience building and shipping native Android Applications. In this role, you are going to lead highly productive teams as they build high-quality and scalable software to support the doubling of our user-base over the next year.

We've moved fast to get to the point we are at today and there are certain parts of our software that need to be modernized. You will help us on that journey and support our teams as they build new features into our apps.

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin
• RxJava
• MVI architecture
• Retrofit
• Bitrise
• Espresso
• Android Jetpack

What you will be doing:

• Serve as a mentor to our Android engineers
• Leading our Android architecture by transforming business objectives into technical solutions
• Work with product and engineers to understand the impact of new work
• Mature our process for onboarding and work with new engineers as they onboard
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in our development process
• Mature our build pipelines
• Mature our process around release management
• Document and prioritize technical debt
• Stay on top of changes in the Android ecosystem and ensure that our app, environment and practices keep up
• Work with engineers and engineering managers to maintain a technical roadmap that moves us incrementally and continually in the right direction

What you will bring:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 8+ Yrs of experience in Android applications development
• Prior experience working in a high-growth stage company building and architecting SAAS products and solutions 
• The ability to provide technical insight and overall direction on projects from concept to delivery
• Highly skilled communicator. You’ll spend a fair part of your day talking and working with others
• Exemplary technical skills. Development experience in Java and Kotlin.

Who we are:

It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.

Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.