Senior Android Developer

About Moneybox

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.

Job Brief

Moneybox is growing at a rapid pace with more and more people using our app to help save and invest for their future. To support this growth we are looking for an Android Developer to help develop and own parts of the android application.

We are looking for a Senior Android Developer to join our team which owns our core areas of the app and underlying architecture. Each mission works in a fast paced environment using the Shape Up methodology to ensure we deliver meaningful projects to our customers.

What you’ll do

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include: 

• Design, develop & release features for the Android application.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data analysts to refine ideas into solutions that our customers love.
• Own area(s) of the application, responsible for all aspects of the product delivery cycle.
• Drive the technical roadmap ensuring our project remains best in class and follows industry best practices.  Propose and implement improvements to our application, architecture and delivery pipeline.
• Mentor and influence our fun, passionate and experienced team. Opportunity to manage and build effective delivery teams.

About the Stack
Our app is fully modularised, split into separate features and written using the latest libraries from Android Jetpack. You will be working on the latest technologies in the Android ecosystem and contribute to how our architecture evolves to enable us to deliver rapidly and reliably to our users.

Our Architecture is organised into single responsibility layers. We build new features using Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern UI toolkit. Our domain layer uses the MVVM design pattern and our data layer uses reactive streams to ensure data displayed is always up to date.

We release the app every single week, using a release train. So your work will be shipped to customers as soon as it’s ready!

Who you are

• Highly experienced product focused Android developer.  Preferably with 5+ years commercial experience, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin with good programming knowledge.  Preferably with a Computer Science background or equivalent experience.
• Experience in creating rich user interfaces and custom components. Ensuring user experience & quality is at the forefront of everything you do.
• Experience working with relevant stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver large scale projects.
• Experience in proposing and implementing large scale technical improvements.  Keeps up to date with industry trends and spreads this knowledge throughout the team.
• Experience of or desire to manage other members of the team.  Able to support delivery teams to implement projects and support members personal development.

What’s in it for you?

• Work on features used by hundreds of thousands of users, helping people to save and invest for their future!
• Develop using the latest technologies and contribute to our ever evolving project. 1 week out of every 8 to exclusively work on technical improvements and learning.
• Ownership of everything you do. Contribute to the features you develop and feel rewarded for the impact you have on the app.
• Excellent opportunity for career growth and leadership, open and honest progression opportunities. As we grow we want you to grow with us!
• Fun and friendly company culture. Exposure to all areas of the business, and ability to see the impact of your work on the wider company.
• Competitive salary that is continually benchmarked across the industry.
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Optional Private Medical Insurance & Health Cash Plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription for access to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• Home office furniture allowance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with additional days added with length of service
• Mission + Functional team socials every 8 weeks
• Annual L&D budget including team trip to Droidcon London each year

Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower