Lead Android Developer

About the Company: Our client is an established, profitable product company in the fintech space, serving a large international user base with strong security and regulatory credentials. This is a product company with a real engineering culture and genuine ownership - not an agency or outsourcing shop. About the Role: Our client is hiring their first Lead Android Developer. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You write Kotlin every day AND set the company's Android engineering standard. You own the architecture, CI/CD, release pipeline, and security bar. This is not a pure management role and not just a stronger IC. There are no formal direct reports - you earn influence through expertise and mentorship. Split is roughly 90% hands-on coding, 10% technical leadership. Key Responsibilities: Own the Android technical roadmap , architecture, and engineering standards from scratch Write production Kotlin daily using Jetpack Compose, Coroutines & Flow Own the full Google Play lifecycle: A pp signing, keystore management, release tracks, Play Console Set up and improve Android CI/CD (GitLab CI, Bitrise, or Fastlane) Enforce Android security standards: Keystore, EncryptedSharedPreferences, biometric auth, root detection, SSL pinning Lead code reviews , set the PR quality bar, and mentor the Android team Represent Android in cross-functional work with Product, Design, Backend, and QA Own incidents and drive them to resolution end-to-end What We Expect: Must-have: 6+ year