SumUp enables businesses to get paid easily, process orders quickly, sell online instantly and manage their money more efficiently. We create the tools businesses need to make their business and their customer experience thrive!
As a member of the Global Bank tribe, you’ll play a key part in helping us build SumUp's own digital bank. You’ll be part of a global, autonomous, cross-functional team that takes an aspect of our product and perfect it from concept to execution. Becoming a part of the Global Bank Tribe means working alongside ~250 people with 32 nationalities across Cologne, Berlin, São Paulo, Santiago, Sofia and Vilnius who love to take ownership, work with purpose and help businesses thrive.
As a Senior Android Developer, you'll be part of an experience team that is responsible for building reliable, secure and easy-to-use features inside our mobile app that’s exposed to millions of users across the globe. You’ll empower merchants with a smooth, effortless and engaging banking experience.
What You’ll Do
Build our banking mobile app to help provide banking operations for our merchants across Europe
Work with large scale, highly available and resilient modern systems
Participate in architectural discussions, propose solutions, and contribute to the technical roadmap of our Android application.
You’ll work within cross-functional feature teams (squads) in the Banking Tribe, all dedicated to delivering a top-tier product.
Dive into the code and create clean components in our codebase, develop and refine features and how we write tests and maintain peak performance.
Work closely with designers and product owners to build features that are maintainable, usable and beautiful.
Help us rethink problems we've solved before in a different way as needs evolve
Develop a wealth of knowledge about our complex problem domain as well as its implications in the interface and the backend – and how to manage it in a clean way
You’ll be great for this role if
You have hands-on experience building mobile applications using Kotlin, and solid understanding of Android app design principles, patterns, and best practices.
Good knowledge of architectural design patterns such as MVVM and MVP, and proven experience ensuring modularized and scalable app architecture.
You care about user interaction, usability, and of course, making the interface beautiful
Ability to take ownership and drive the development of exciting and impactful new features and products.
A genuine passion for writing well-structured, readable, and maintainable code
You know what to test, why to test it, and how to write flexible tests that won't break.
An agile mindset and experience with Agile practices (Pairing, TDD).
You thrive in a team where you can learn and try new tech, collaborate on technical challenges and grow as a team.
The Tech We Work With
Language: Kotlin, some legacy code is still maintained in Java
UI: Jetpack compose - our development features are primarily using XML based designs and you are free to choose compose/xml
Architectural Patterns: Clean architecture. Navigation controller and single activity arch. MVVM at presentation layer.
Dependency Injection: Hilt
Communication: Kotlin Flows and coroutines
Detekt and checkstyle for code quality check
Backend Integration: Majority of our tribe integrations are gRPC.
Our new features are done using REST - (Retrofit, Okhttp, moshi standard stack)
Authentication: OAuth
Firebase: For Analytics, remote config and crashlytics. Grafana for better observability and crash alert integration to slack
Testing: JUnit, Mockito and jacoco for reports. UI Testing: We have UI tests for critical flows but we go with pyramid structure where the unit tests are the base and UI tests are at the tip.
VersionControl: Git and github
Why you should join SumUp
We’re a truly global team of 3200+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents
The opportunity to work on large scale fintech products used by millions of businesses around the world
You’ll receive 25 days’ paid leave, plus 1 additional day for each year of employment.
You can take up to 10 days’ educational leave to expand your skill set.
A dedicated annual Learning & Development budget (2000Euro / year) for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
Enrollment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success
Access to the SumUp Sabbatical, our Employee assistance program for mental health
We offer additional health insurance, a subsidized Multisport card, free shuttle buses from Joliot-Curie metro station and other great benefits.
You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons
About SumUp
We believe in the everyday hero.
Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.
SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.
SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.
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