Lead Android Engineer, Banking

Job Description

The Banking Mobile team is a mobile development team focused on delivering high quality and seamless banking experiences. The team is responsible for both the mobile product surface for all of Square’s banking products, and also a backend service that orchestrates service APIs to power our banking products. You will design, develop, and maintain functionality for Square’s entire Banking product ecosystem. You will collaborate with other mobile and backend engineers plus our product and design teams to ensure that millions of merchants have a remarkable and reliable experience banking with Square.

You Will

1. Design and implement features as part of Square's top banking initiative in support of a seamless banking experience.
2. Build into our backend orchestration service.
3. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other mobile and backend engineers. Participate in the full lifecycle of product development, from early definition through release and beyond.

You Have

1. 8+ years of Android software development experience, developing scalable production software and an excellent command of engineering fundamentals.
2. Ability to lead and mentor a group of software engineers to deliver solutions while fostering growth.
3. Motivation to bring your architectural wisdom to bear in working with the team to implement best-in-class mobile practices in conjunction with our backend service.
4. A desire to not just guide, but also do.
5. Strong communication skills and a strong desire to deliver a great product.
6. A deep sense of customer empathy and an interest in influencing the team’s direction.
7. (Preferred) Experience with one or more banking products.
8. (Preferred) Experience with backend service development.

Technologies We Use And Teach

1. Kotlin for both our app and backend service
2. Square’s open source Android frameworks: Workflow (state management), Retrofit (networking)
3. Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines Unit tests, snapshot tests, integration tests
4. Service APIs and Protocol Buffers
5. Gradle for our build environments