Staff Android Engineer, Lime
Lime For Business
CA$172-237k
Offers bonus and equity
Electric bike and scooter rentals
Be an early applicant
Electric bike and scooter rentals
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$172-237k
Offers bonus and equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong record of delivering impactful mobile products or systems
- Deep technical expertise and proven leadership in Android development (Kotlin)
- Experience designing and maintaining robust, modular, and scalable app architectures
- Demonstrated experience shipping in large-scale apps with shared ownership, legacy constraints, and multiple collaborating teams
- Comfort working with and improving existing architectures (e.g., modularization, feature boundaries, dependency management, navigation patterns)
- Strong product instincts: you can balance quality, maintainability, and speed—and you know when “perfect” blocks shipping
- Solid experience with:
- Mobile testing practices (unit, snapshot/UI, integration as appropriate),
- CI/CD and release hygiene,
- Performance debugging and crash analysis
- Strong communication and collaboration skills—able to align with partner teams and move work forward without “owning everything.”
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to mentor and elevate others
- Dynamic, driven, and comfortable operating across multiple teams and priorities
- Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply
Desirable
- Experience contributing to platform-level initiatives, such as design systems, shared libraries, or build optimizations
- Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks such as Kotlin Coroutines, RxJava, Dagger/Hilt, Retrofit, and Android Jetpack components
- Familiarity with architectural patterns like MVVM, Clean Architecture, and modularization
- Experience contributing to technical strategy and vision for a specific Android domain or business area
- Entrepreneurial spirit — comfortable in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
- Passion for sustainability, safety, urban mobility, and innovative transportation solutions for business users
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Android Engineer to help build Lime for Business as an embedded, first-class experience inside the Lime app—an “app within an app” tailored to business users, admins, and company programs
- Work as part of a team creating high-quality, performant Android experiences within our existing app, specifically with the business user in mind
- Partner closely with product and design to create business workflows that are intuitive and reliable (for both admins and employee riders)
- Navigate shared ownership effectively:
- Integrate with existing modules and platform services,
- Collaborate across teams on APIs/contracts,
- Manage dependencies and rollouts without destabilizing the core app
- Improve quality through testing, instrumentation, performance work, and strong release discipline
- Contribute to continuous improvement: refactors that unblock future work, build performance improvements, better debugging/triage practices, clearer module boundaries
- Troubleshoot and lead full-cycle incident response (mitigation, correction, prevention)
- Collaborate with PMs, Engineers, Design, Research, Data Science, and Operations teams to identify and solve problems that impact our users
- Provide technical mentorship and foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and code quality across teams
- Contribute to shaping the technical strategy and long-term vision for Lime for Business’s iOS platform — including architecture, tooling and development best practices
Our take
In recent years, electric-powered mobility companies have attracted an extraordinary amount of interest and funding, in part due to rising eco-friendly sentiment, and in part because of the race to "find the next Uber". Lime is one such company, that has rapidly scaled across multiple geographies to be a key player in the fight for market leadership.
Lime, along with its competitors, has had to grapple with regulation in many of its target markets, but nonetheless has steadily increased its footprint. Since its launch, the company has facilitated millions of trips, making it one of the biggest companies of its kind. Interestingly, the CEO has stated that "cars are our true business rivals—not other scooter companies", suggesting that its biggest business challenge will be to get families to give up their second cars.
With a presence that spans an impressive number of regions - in 2023, Lime began operating in Qatar - the company has cemented itself in the micromobility market and stands to profit from the increasing popularity of these types of services. A substantial increase in ridership enabled Lime to achieve "free cash flow positivity" two years in a row, with suggestions it will pursue a US IPO in 2027.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$523m
CONVERTIBLE
May 2020
$170m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Toby
(Co-Founder & Board Advisor)Founder and CEO of ZERO&. Was a Marketing Manager at Pepsi for 6 years before doing an MBA at Berkeley. Moved into consulting and VC for 5 years before starting Lime.
Brad
(Co-Founder & Chairman)VP of Business Development at Tencent for 8 years. Managing Partner of a VC firm for 3 years, where he worked with Toby. Has an MBA from Berkeley.
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