Staff Android Engineer - Financial Services

Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to changing the way daily services are provided. It currently operates in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is backed (~$200M in funding) by VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe and other parts of the world.
We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally.
Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.
About your role
As an Android Staff Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Android applications across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain. You will lead Android engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle. You will mentor junior developers. You will contribute to scaling up Android engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain features for the domain applications
• Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Help the domain team members with technical blockers supporting them and helping them grow
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency
• Participate in architecture and design discussions
• Participate strongly in building the technical roadmap
• Conduct technical interviews
• Help Improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
• At least 8 years of Android mobile engineering experience. 3 years of which with Kotlin
• Excellent communication skills
• Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development lifecycle
• Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
• Hands-on experience with mobile DevOps CI/CD tools
• Experience working with different architectures
• Experience writing testable code and unit tests
• Have published many Android applications to the Store
• Experience in a fast-growing startup in a the on-demand services space is a plus