Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for an Android Engineer to contribute to our life-changing financial services app. In this role, you’ll join the elite team of Android engineers developing features for our large global userbase. Enthusiasm and drive for crafting a great user experience is a must. If you enjoy taking a complicated idea/process and simplifying it for the user into a beautiful and compelling experience, then our team may be the right place for you.
What you’ll do:
- IDeliver customer focused features that prioritize polish, stability, and security.
- Develop/improve complex features for current and future supported countries.
- Provide guidance when integrating with external partners (tracking, payment/KYC, support, etc.)
- Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams.
- Participate in refactoring current codebase to achieve better abstraction and modularization.
- Add, maintain, and extend automation tests to comply with code coverage targets.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience in native Android development.
- 3+ years coding in Kotlin.
- Developed and launched large scale consumer mobile applications.
- Has thorough understanding of the Android platform’s performance, strengths, and trade-offs.
- Experience developing projects that use dependency injection, preferably Dagger 2.
- Comfortable using reactive development frameworks like RxJava.
- Familiar with fundamentals of REST API development.
- Solid understanding of software architecture concepts like MVP, MVVM, and Clean Architecture.
- Experience with Agile development processes like Scrum.
- Excels at prioritization and communication in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related fields.
- Bonus: Experience in predictive analysis and machine learning.
Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.