Android Engineer

We started Novo to challenge the status quo— we’re on a mission to build the operating system to destroy the back office, so small businesses (SMB’s) can do more of what they love. Novo is flipping the script of the FinTech world, and we’re excited to lead the small business FinTech revolution.

We are looking for people of character. Pragmatic and capable people who want to see their work drive better outcomes for small businesses — the backbone of our economy. You will join our team and work on the building blocks of everything Novo ships.

Why Novo?

• Novo is a rapidly growing series B fintech startup with a mission-driven team that’s passionate about helping every small business in America
• Positive, inclusive, supportive culture cheering you on your journey
• We work with very new technologies and architecture patterns
• We provide learning and development budgets to help you grow and bond with your team
• Able to work from the office 3+ days per week
• Offices in NYC, Miami, India, and Colombia

About Us:

Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy, comprising almost half of the GDP and the private workforce. Yet, big banks don’t provide the access, assistance and modern tools that owners need to successfully grow their business.

We are looking for an inquisitive, motivated, and agile Android Engineer to join our banking revolution, who possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential. Are you ready to revolutionize the small business banking industry with us?

About the Role:

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code.
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java and Kotlin code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Requirements for the Role:

• 2+ years of experience with developing Android Mobile applications in Kotlin and Java.
• Strong conceptual understanding of Kotlin & Java.
• In-depth Understanding of Android recommended design principles, interface guidelines, and best practices for coding.
• Experience working with MVVM, and Clean Architecture .
• Extensive hands-on experience of creating custom UI controls, designing protocols, implementing delegate interfaces.
• Understanding of fragments andAndroid XML layouts, and how to create adaptive interfaces that work for multiple device form factors.
• Experience working with Dagger 2 , HILT would be an advantage.
• Experience working with Multi-threaded programming, Coroutines, Flow & observers.
• Must have experience in working with Retrofit,okHttp ,interceptors.
• Deep understanding of security around data at rest and in-transit such as cert-pinning, keychain storage and payload encryption/decryption.
• Experience with performance and memory tuning of complex Apps.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience working with Git.
• Experience writing Unit Tests + UI Tests in a way that ensures the quality of the application delivered.
• Experience with Android Jetpack components and Navigation Graph, Work Manager & Paging.
• Exposure in Jetpack Compose and XML are good to have.

How We Define Success:

• Deliver features to the end user within reasonable timelines.
• Deliver features that work across a range of cases and devices and should introduce minimum breakage under unknown conditions.
• Taking care of non-functional requirements while delivering functional solutions: performance, security and unit testing.

Nice To Have, but Not Required:

• Worked in a product company before
• Experience with GraphQL
• Showcase 2 live applications on App Store or Play Store, one of which is an enterprise application or a consumer application with over 20k users
• Github Actions for CI/CD.
• Good understanding in SSL pinning
• Experience in Mockito,Junit,Expresso
• Jetpack Compose

Novo values diversity as a core tenet of the work we do and the businesses we serve. We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.