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Bankjoy

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51 - 200 employees

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $12.5M Series A on 2020-09

Banking • Fintech • SaaS

Bankjoy is a company that provides a comprehensive digital banking solution tailored for banks and credit unions. Their offerings include mobile and online banking, online account opening, online loan applications, statements, and a conversational AI chatbot called 'Joy. ' Bankjoy aims to deliver a seamless and integrated digital banking experience for both retail and business banking customers. They focus on providing fast and elegant online processes for loan applications and account opening, as well as a consistent user experience through their security-enhanced platform.

📋 Description

• Own the Android technical roadmap — architectural decisions, technology choices, and long-term platform direction • Define and enforce Android engineering standards across the team including code quality, testing practices, and release readiness • Lead solution design for new features and major platform initiatives, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability • Drive adoption of modern Android development practices — Jetpack Compose, MVVM/Clean Architecture, coroutines, and dependency injection • Partner with iOS Tech Lead and backend engineering to ensure consistent cross-platform product behavior and API contract alignment • Own Android delivery across digital banking value streams — planning, estimation, milestone tracking, and risk management • Break down complex initiatives into executable engineering tasks with clear dependencies and timelines • Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers before they impact release schedules • Collaborate with QA to define Android-specific testing strategy — unit, integration, and UI automation using Espresso or equivalent • Participate in the on-call rotation for production support, responding to urgent issues impacting financial institution clients and their members • Contribute directly to feature development, code reviews, debugging, and performance optimization within the digital banking value stream • Maintain a meaningful individual coding contribution while balancing technical leadership responsibilities • Champion clean, testable, well-documented Kotlin code across the Android codebase • Directly manage three Android engineers — conducting regular 1:1s, providing performance feedback, and supporting their technical growth • Foster a collaborative, high-trust team environment that emphasizes engineering excellence and continuous learning • Mentor engineers on Android best practices, fintech domain knowledge, and effective cross-functional collaboration • Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, onboarding, and growing Android engineering capability • Work closely with Product Management and Design to shape feature scope, assess feasibility, and provide accurate effort estimates • Collaborate with backend engineers on API design and integration patterns for mobile banking flows • Align with QA on automation coverage strategy — supporting the organization's migration to modern mobile testing frameworks • Partner with DevOps on Android build pipelines, release automation, and CI/CD integration • Strictly adhere to security protocols when handling customer financial data • Apply knowledge of mobile security best practices — certificate pinning, secure storage, biometric authentication, and session management — in a regulated banking environment • Ensure Android implementations meet applicable financial services compliance requirements

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of Android development experience with deep Kotlin expertise • 2+ years in a tech lead or senior engineering leadership role managing direct reports • Strong proficiency in Jetpack Compose and modern Android UI development • Solid understanding of Android architecture patterns — MVVM, Clean Architecture, Repository pattern • Experience with coroutines, Flow, and reactive programming patterns • Proficiency with dependency injection frameworks — Hilt or Dagger • Experience with Android testing frameworks — JUnit, Espresso, Mockk • Familiarity with RESTful API integration and mobile networking patterns • Experience with CI/CD pipelines for Android — GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or equivalent • Proficiency with version control workflows — Git, pull request reviews, branching strategies

🏖️ Benefits

• We cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for individuals on our base plan, with significant contributions toward all other plan options (USA). • We cover 100% of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family under our single, comprehensive plan (Canada). • Retirement plan with 4% company matching • 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing • 3-5 weeks PTO depending on tenure • 5 health days • 15 holidays • End of year shutdown • Performance-based bonuses • Remote first culture