Platform Android Engineer (Berlin/London/Paris)

Platform Android Engineer (Berlin/London/Paris)

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe – we operate in 17 countries, serving more than 8 million customers who trust us with over 100 B in assets. We are striving to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. You will grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state‑of‑the‑art technology to build a lasting, positive future for millions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own Android platform primitives: modular architecture, core libraries (networking, analytics, storage, feature flags), and shared UI components.
• Drive app performance and reliability: startup, rendering, memory, battery; establish budgets and guardrails.
• Advance CI/CD: Gradle build speed, caching, dependency management, test infrastructure (unit/instrumentation), release automation.
• Improve observability: logging, metrics, tracing, crash reporting, ANR detection, real‑user monitoring.
• Champion code quality: static analysis, lint rules, coding standards, API guidelines, documentation, migration playbooks.
• Partner with security & privacy: data handling, permissions, secure storage, Play integrity, supply‑chain hardening.
• Mentor and unblock: guide feature teams, run discovery reviews, lead migration & platform rollouts.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years building Android apps/libraries with Kotlin (and some Java interop).
• Deep Gradle/AGP expertise: build optimization, multi‑module setups, version catalogs.
• Strong grasp of Android architecture (Clean/MVI/MVVM), DI (Hilt/Dagger), coroutines/Flows.
• Experience shipping and operating large‑scale apps: crash‑free goals, ANR reduction, performance tooling (Systrace/Perfetto).
• CI/CD fluency: test pyramids, emulator/device farms, release tracks, feature flags.
• Solid debugging skills across layers: rendering, network, storage, threading.
• Excellent communication and cross‑team influence.

Android Tech Stack

• Native Android application development with Kotlin
• Reactive programming: RxJava2, Kotlin Flow
• Architecture: MVVM
• Jetpack Compose
• Dependency Injection: Anvil

Why You Should Apply Now

Our culture rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy. We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable – we are here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europe faces: closing the pension gap and democratizing wealth. If this gets you fired up, reach out! We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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