Senior Android Engineer (Europe only)

Description

As Senior Android Engineer you’ll help us to bring the benefits of crypto to a mainstream audience. You’ll do this by delivering world class UX and unrivalled security. This will draw on your experience building top-tier apps that you’re proud of, quickly shipping features, and taking ownership of the entire development lifecycle.

Ownership and autonomy are particularly important to us as a remote team.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about crypto’s potential and has contributed to open source projects.

Requirements

• 5 years experience building top tier Android apps, minimum 2 years in Kotlin
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Focused on delivering great UX

Expert knowledge of:

• RxJava usage (minimum 2 years of experience)
• The Android framework: lifecycles, memory management, Gradle
• Network protocols and data persistence techniques

Experience with:

• Common Android libraries such as Retrofit, Room, Glide, and Dagger
• Testing Android apps with unit tests and UI tests
• Continuous Integration and source control
• Implementing security best practices for safeguarding data on a mobile device

The app

The Argent app is written mostly in Kotlin. We use RxJava extensively as it helps us to work with concurrency issues and react to changes as soon as they happen. We also use proven libraries like Glide, Retrofit, Lottie and the latest AndroidX libraries.

Benefits

• Work remotely - anywhere in Europe (but Europe only). No commute. Lots of flexibility. Plenty of time to care for your kids or cats. Equity in a high growth startup backed by the investors of Spotify and Slack.
• Autonomy - you decide how to achieve your best work.
• Trips across Europe - for one week every three months we collaborate in person, explore new solutions and have fun. So far we’ve stayed in Nice, Toulouse, Brussels, Lisbon and Barcelona. We’ll resume these when safe following COVID.
• Equipment - pick the tech setup of your choice.
• Parental leave - generous package for new parents.
• Build a new industry - help define the future of the web.

Our values

You can find more information on each of our values here.

About Argent

We believe that the future of money and the internet should be more open and fair. That everybody with internet should have equal access to economic opportunities, and that this brave new future is possible. It can be realised through crypto.

That’s why we started Argent: the world’s most simple and secure smart wallet. It puts the power of crypto into the hands of anyone with a phone. Empowering you to control and prosper from your digital assets and identity.

Store, save and send; borrow, earn interest and invest. No-nonsense and non-custodial. Combining beautiful design and bulletproof security. Without borders or boundaries.

We launched in 2018 and are fortunate to be backed by Silicon Valley and Europe’s top investors, including Paradigm, Index Ventures, Creandum and firstminute capital.