Android Software Engineer

• Current is a leading consumer fintech platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans with over 6 million members
• We provide access to financial solutions that seamlessly work together to solve the needs of our members and enable all Americans to build better financial futures
• Based in NYC, our results-driven environment drives us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to have an impact on our business and mission to improve financial outcomes
• Our mobile engineers are responsible for building the full suite of user experiences for our members, leveraging our proprietary backend banking core
• The mobile apps are native (Kotlin/Swift) and primarily use gRPC to interface with our backend
• Being the primary interface for our members to manage their finances (there isn’t a web app), the mobile experience needs to be highly performant and intuitive to use
• This forces our engineers to think through foundational layers of application infrastructure, reusable UI components, and the collection of data that drive these decisions
• Join us for an opportunity to work in a fast-moving environment where your work is highly visible and has a direct impact on our members’ financial outcomes!
• Be a part of a small and nimble mobile engineering team working closely with our product, design, and backend engineering teams to enable new end-to-end experiences for our users
• Owning the delivery of features from system design through launch, with support from senior engineers on the team
• Contributing to the scalable and reusable mobile frameworks that drive code consistency and engineering velocity
• Raising the bar on architecture, testing, and monitoring practices in the code you write and review
• Helping Current’s members build better financial futures through products like Paycheck Advance, Build Card, and Savings Pods
• A strong culture of code and architecture review, with real feedback and room to grow

Benefits

• Company equity
• Flexible vacation policy
• Commuter benefits
• Discretionary bonus program
• Medical, Dental & Vision- The ideal candidate should have a few years of experience building native mobile applications and be ready to take on full ownership of features. This person should also be a motivated self-starter who feels at ease working through ambiguous challenges in a fast-paced environment
• A genuine interest in the personal finance space!
• 2+ years of native Android development, using Kotlin
• Experience working in a codebase shared by a team of engineers, with a real code review culture
• Comfortable working within a modularized app architecture, including unidirectional data flows, MVVM, and use of Gradle modules
• Working knowledge of Android fundamentals including component lifecycles, dependency injection (Hilt), multi-threading, persistence, and usage of Jetpack components (Compose, Material 3, Navigation, ViewModel, etc)
• Experience with profiling and optimizing UI performance (smooth animations, reducing jank, etc)
• Have published and maintained apps on the Google Play Store
• Experience with using gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) and Protobuf (Protocol Buffers) schemas for networking
• Experience migrating legacy XML/View code to Compose