The Job in Short
At Backbase we build secure, enterprise-grade digital banking software used daily by millions of people worldwide. As a Senior Android Engineer, you will join one of the core teams in our R&D department and will be responsible for driving the development of our product, following and improving our way of working, enforcing and refining our best practices, all the while contributing to create a strong engineering culture. Your mission is to help create the best banking experience for our customers.
Meet the Job
- You will help design, build and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile Platform.
- You will be part of a multidisciplinary squad that is responsible for delivering end-to-end solutions, from initial concept to fruition in one of our production-ready applications.
- You will be tasked with addressing complex business requirements and with translating them into technical designs and implementations.
- You will be expected to deliver high-quality, well-engineered software that is performant, clean and is easy to maintain.
- As a squad member, you will contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests, documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and partners.
How about you?
- You have 6+ years of relevant working experience working on complex Android-based products, with at least 2+ years in a Senior role;
- You are strongly proficient in Kotlin;
- You have technical experience with architecture patterns like MVP, MVVM, MVI, Clean architecture or other scalable architectures;
- You have technical experience with building and shipping modular Android libraries and SDKs and decorated APIs;
- You have solid experience building complex UI with XML-based layouts and Jetpack Compose;
- You have solid understanding of multithreading and structured concurrency with Kotlin Coroutines and Flow;
- You have technical experience with unit testing, UI testing, snapshot testing and debugging tools like Layout Inspector, Android Profiler and ADB;
- You have technical experience with SDLC processes and CI/CD automation, strong knowledge of Gradle, familiar with Github Actions or Bitrise, and deployment tools
- You have technical experience with Gradle plugins development.
Non-functional & Soft Skills requirements:
● You have a strong sense of ownership;
● You are a result-oriented engineer who is familiar with Agile software development practices and methodologies;
● You have hands-on technical experience with non-functional features such as security, performance and accessibility;
● You have strong communication, coaching and leadership skills and can thrive in a complex domain;
● You are accustomed to translating high-level business requirements into technical designs and coach your peers to do the same;
● You understand the value of proper documentation, automation and other aspects of a modern software development lifecycle.
Bonus & nice to have:
● You have banking domain experience;
● You are familiar with Figma;
● You have experience working in an international environment.
Top Skills
What We Do
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience. We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 120 financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase omni-channel banking platform to streamline their digital sales and self-service operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes ABN AMRO, Bank ABC, Barclays, BPI, CheBanca!, Citizens Lightstream, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, HDFC, IDFC, KeyBank, Ila Bank, Me Bank, Navy Federal, PostFinance, RBC, RBS, Standard Bank, Societe Generale, Truist, U Bank and Westpac.
Industry analysts Celent, Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms.
Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in Boisse, Cardiff, Dubai, Kraków, Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
