Senior Android Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Tala is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to contribute to its impactful financial services app. This role involves joining a high-caliber Android engineering team focused on developing features for a vast global user base. The ideal candidate possesses enthusiasm and drive for crafting exceptional user experiences, with a talent for simplifying complex ideas into beautiful and compelling interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Clone the Android app for the India market and provide ongoing feature updates.
• Deliver customer-centric features with a strong emphasis on polish, stability, and security.
• Establish, improve, and exemplify best practices in Android engineering.
• Develop and enhance complex features for current and future supported countries.
• Provide guidance on integrating with external partners (tracking, payment/KYC, support, etc.).
• Participate in refactoring the existing codebase to achieve better abstraction and modularization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working as an Android Engineer.
• 3-5+ years of experience with Kotlin.
• 1-3+ years of experience with MVVM, coroutines, and flows.
• 1+ year of experience with Jetpack Compose.
• Expertise in AI-aided development, including context management and prompt creation.
• Proficiency with current AI technologies such as Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude.
• Experience using AI development tools like CoPilot and VSCode.
• Ability to implement AI-created work in most situations.

About Tala

Tala's mission is to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people underserved by existing financial systems. With significant funding, Tala serves millions of customers across three continents. Recognized by Fortune, CNBC, and Forbes for its innovation and impact, Tala is expanding its product offerings, global reach, and crypto initiatives. The company fosters an entrepreneurial spirit and is passionate about its mission to create a unique platform for lending and financial services in emerging markets.

Tala's platform empowers individuals in emerging markets to start and grow small businesses, manage daily needs, and achieve their financial goals. Millions have already benefited from Tala products in Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India.

Tala operates with a remote-first approach, supported by offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ), Nairobi, Kenya, Mexico City, Mexico, Manila, the Philippines, and Bangalore, India.

Tala believes in building a financial ecosystem where everyone can participate equally and access the tools for financial health. The company is committed to inclusion and diversity, hiring talented individuals regardless of background, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Application Instructions

If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we encourage you to apply.