Senior Android Engineer, Mode Mobile
Participation in the Company's equity plan (for full-time team members
User rewarding software solution
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User rewarding software solution
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Participation in the Company's equity plan (for full-time team members
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable budget-conscious consumers to earn additional income from their everyday habits.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a motivated, knowledgeable mobile engineer to join our Android development team
- The company and project excites you!
- You have 8+ years of experience building large, world-class Android apps, preferably with experience using:
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Coroutines
- Dagger
- MVI
- Clean Architecture
- You’re a user-focused engineer. Your #1 priority is solving problems for users
- You have experience building Android apps with ads, including ad networks integrations, ad caching, and performance monitoring. Bonus points if you have experience with AppLovin and MAX mediation
- You love building fun products! You have experience adding gamification into your apps to create delight and drive engagement. Think: leaderboards, badges, celebrations, encouragements, progress tracking, streaks, etc
- You're passionate about automated testing and continuous delivery
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills. Complex challenges attract you!
- You’re excited to deliver high-quality features at a fast pace
- You have exceptional organizational and analytical skills leading to confident, independent delivery
- You’re a direct and empathetic communicator
- You’re comfortable with a little startup chaos
- Alignment with our core values:
- Accountable: You take ownership of your responsibilities, demonstrating trustworthiness and self-discipline. You are consistent in your work, transparent in your actions, and communicate effectively. You follow through on commitments and strive for continuous improvement
- Action-driven: Identify what is most important, agree on scope, execute in a timely manner, and drive the greatest impact. You take initiative, roll up your sleeves, and get things done
- Caring: You genuinely care about yourself and others, our business and craft, our mission and vision, and are passionate in heart and mind. You understand the importance of our team and strive to create a positive, supportive work environment
- Curious: You focus on the ‘why,’ learn and expand your knowledge, explore new ideas, and generally make things better. You're a lifelong learner with a thirst for knowledge and a constant desire to improve
- Thorough: Your work is thoughtful, impactful, timely, accurate, and complete. You pay attention to detail, are meticulous, and ensure quality work and compliance
What the job involves
- You'll build and extend our cutting edge mobile application that supports hundreds of thousands of consumers every day
- You'll own projects from start to finish, working closely with other engineers, as well as our product and design team, applying scalable development patterns, maintainable code practices, and sharp technical decisions that help shape the architecture of the future
- Taking projects from planning through technical implementation, deployment, and post-deployment. Projects will include ad monetization, gamification, and more!
- Writing high-quality, stable, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Drive best practices in testing, code quality, and performance while being a strong advocate for unit/integration testing
- Switching between working solo and collaboratively to complete projects quickly
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Backend) to understand and meet the customer’s needs
- Lead technical design discussions and code reviews
- We have a modern Android project, written primarily in Kotlin, and utilizing Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Dagger
- We invest heavily in automated testing, with a strong foundation of unit tests and have recently adopted Espresso for integration and E2E testing
- Our CI/CD is automated through GitHub Actions, and we release weekly
Our take
Mode Mobile delivers a pioneering approach to gamification in its flagship product, Mode Earn Phone, as well as its rewards-based Mode Earn App. Customers can acquire this smartphone at a budget-friendly price point, allowing them to utilize it as they would any other mobile device while also offering the potential to earn upwards of $1,000 annually through various interactive methods.
In a digital environment increasingly saturated with gamified applications, Mode Mobile has set itself apart by applying this concept to an entire mobile device. Since its inception in 2020, the company has rapidly attracted a substantial user base, numbering in the millions. The trajectory of its user base growth is closely watched, as it presents a groundbreaking shift in the way mobile devices are used and valued.
While Mode Mobile's strategy may raise eyebrows due to its potential to further increase mobile device usage and data entry, proponents argue that given the extensive time users spend on their devices and the wealth of data generated, it's a logical step to leverage these activities for financial gain. With a strong start, Mode Mobile can gear up to expand its team and introduce additional products, setting sights on disrupting the entire mobile market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2025
$1m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $1m
Company HQ
Near North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Dan Novaes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Dan co-founded MobileX Labs and Nativ Mobile where he served as CEO at both companies. He was also a Contributor at Inc. Magazine, Forbes and Entrepreneur Media and worked in Growth at Facebook.
Kiran Panesar
(Co-Founder & CTO)Kiran previously co-founded MobileX Labs and Nativ Mobile where he served as CTO at both companies. He also founded adappt Designs where he served as a Programmer.
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