Remote Senior Android Engineer
Location:Â Lagos (Completely Remote)
Employment Type: Full time
LemFi (YC S21) is building the neobank for African diaspora in North America & Europe. We provide our users with a multi-currency account that allows them to hold, send, and receive money from Africa in any currency for their business and personal banking needs.
We are a fast-paced startup with entities in the UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria and you would be required to familiarize yourself with necessary statutory and regulatory requirements in these locations.
Job Summary
- You are a candidate who would thrive in a fintech startup environment like ours, where we readily accept individuals with a humble, yet uplifting attitude alongside a diligent sense of work ethic.
- The teams here at LemFi are passionate about their work and fields of expertise, but also lend hands on cross-functional responsibilities to ensure the success of the company and the satisfaction of our clientele.
- We are looking for an Android Engineer who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits.
- This Android engineer will work closely with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications.
- Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Work with internal and external APIs
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Review and debug code
- Possess great leadership skills
- Document development phases and monitor systems
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency.
Requirements
- Proven software development experience and Android skills development
- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Have published at least one Android app to the Play Store
- Experience with Android SDK
- Minimum of 5 years of working experience with Kotlin for building Android applications
- Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
- Collaboration with designers and other engineers in app development.