Platform Android Engineer (Berlin/London/Paris)

THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER 

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe - we operate in 17 countries, serving +8 million customers who trusted us with over 100B in assets. But we’re striving for more.

We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. You will have the opportunity to 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 infra (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, SAFE 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, perf 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’re here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face - closing the pension gap and democratizing wealth. If this gets you fired up, reach out!