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Senior Software Engineer, Android

UKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Mar 2025

💰 $217,100/yr($184,500/yr – $217,100/yr)

About the role

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

Senior Android Engineer | Acorns

Acorns is seeking a talented Senior Android Engineer for our team. We are looking for someone with a background building rich, scalable software, who thrives solving complex engineering problems with simple, elegant solutions. As a Senior Android Engineer, your typical week will involve collaborating with Product, Design, and other engineering teams such as iOS, Web, backend, and QA, to plan and build out new features and infrastructure. We have a Kotlin codebase that uses MVVM architecture and a combination of Jetpack Compose and XML views.

You will be joining a highly autonomous and passionate engineering organization that promotes a customer first, result driven and collaborative culture. You’ll have the opportunity to further shape and build a strong engineering culture as well as collaborate with our talented design, product, education and marketing teams to drive growth for our business.

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

What you will do at Acorns:

Work on a key Product team building and developing exciting new features for our customers
Participate in refinement, grooming, and overall planning of team work
Collaborate closely with key stakeholders across Product and Design to help refine and create requirements
Work with your direct manager and team to help establish priorities, estimate timelines, and ensure we hit communicated deadlines
Mentor less senior team members and act as a force multiplier across the team and organization

What you will bring to Acorns:

7 - 9 years of professional software experience with 5+ years of professional experience developing native Android applications
Deep knowledge of native Android applications built in Kotlin
Ability to weigh and communicate the pros and cons of different approaches and solutions to problems
Experience building high-performance, dynamic UI with Jetpack Compose
Solid understanding of Object Oriented (OO) application design and development
Experience working in a collaborative team environment with a version-control system like git
Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns such as MVVM, Repository pattern, and Inversion of Control
Extensive experience with unit testing; screenshot testing experience is a plus
Familiarity with continuous integration, monitoring and metrics tooling (such as Amplitude and Datadog), and experience working in a feature flag driven organization that uses trunk-based development
Familiarity with the basic principles of dependency injection. Past experience with Dagger a plus
Embody a solutions-oriented approach to problems and strives for quality and precision in delivery
Passionate about making high customer impact and moving key metrics