The job in short
As a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer (Android), you will serve as a technical anchor for our mobile identity and banking suites—shaping SDK architectures that impact over 100 million users worldwide. You will lead the shift toward AI-native mobile development, combining deep Android architecture expertise with agentic AI tooling to set new productivity and quality benchmarks.
Meet the job
- AI-Native Mobile Leadership: Champion the integration of LLM workflows, prompt engineering, and agentic AI tooling into the mobile engineering life cycle.
- Core Mobile & SDK Architecture: Architect scalable, secure Android SDKs, libraries, and modular mobile components using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines.
- Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Own end-to-end mobile capabilities—from local data persistence and security layers to backend API integrations and CI/CD pipelines.
- Quality & Testing Champion: Maintain an uncompromising focus on quality, enforcing automated test coverage targets (80%+ unit testing) and performance profiling.
- Mentorship & Standard Setting: Mentor mobile developers, advocate best practices in mobile architecture, and establish shared engineering standards across the team.
How about you
- Experience: 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a heavy focus on native Android development.
- Tech Mastery: Advanced mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Clean Architecture/MVVM, and building modular mobile SDKs used by external teams.
- Proven AI Production Experience: Active, hands-on production use of AI-driven developer tooling, agentic workflows, or mobile build automation.
- DevOps & Tooling: Deep understanding of mobile CI/CD automation tools (Bitrise, Jenkins, Gradle scripting) and non-functional requirements (mobile security, performance).
- Leadership Skills: Proven capacity to mentor peers, evaluate complex trade-offs, and guide autonomous squads toward clear technical goals.
Skills Required
- 5+ years professional software engineering with heavy focus on native Android development
- Advanced mastery of Kotlin
- Expertise with Jetpack Compose
- Strong experience with Coroutines
- Familiarity with Clean Architecture and MVVM
- Experience building modular mobile SDKs consumed by external teams
- Hands-on production use of AI-driven developer tooling, agentic workflows, or mobile AI build automation
- Deep understanding of mobile CI/CD automation (Bitrise, Jenkins, Gradle scripting)
- Focus on mobile security, performance profiling, and high automated test coverage
- Proven mentorship and leadership experience guiding engineering teams
Backbase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Backbase and has not been reviewed or approved by Backbase.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair in certain U.S. roles, with strong offers in senior engineering, solutions architecture, and sales tracks in higher‑paying markets. In some U.S. contexts, compensation is described as fair for the job.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is described as generous in the U.S., with separate sick time and paid holidays contributing to a supportive time‑off setup.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Hybrid/remote work programs, office perks like snacks, and learning‑budget messaging provide lifestyle flexibility and support beyond baseline coverage.
Backbase Insights
What We Do
Backbase is a fast growing fintech software provider that empowers financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation and effectively compete in a digital-first world. We are the creators of the Backbase Omni-Channel Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless digital customer experience. We give financials the speed and flexibility to create and manage seamless customer experiences across any device, and deliver measurable business results. We believe that superior digital experiences are essential to stay relevant, and our software enables financials to rapidly grow their digital business. More than 120 financials around the world have standardized on the Backbase omni-channel banking platform to streamline their digital sales and self-service operations across all digital touchpoints. Our customer base includes ABN AMRO, Bank ABC, Barclays, BPI, CheBanca!, Citizens Lightstream, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, HDFC, IDFC, KeyBank, Ila Bank, Me Bank, Navy Federal, PostFinance, RBC, RBS, Standard Bank, Societe Generale, Truist, U Bank and Westpac. Industry analysts Celent, Gartner, Forrester and Ovum recognize Backbase as an industry leader in terms of omni-channel banking platform capabilities, and award the company high marks for its deep focus on customer experience management and unparalleled speed of implementation. Forrester named us a leader in the Forrester Wave for Omni-Channel Banking and Ovum nominates Backbase as the market leading provider of next-generation digital channel banking platforms. Backbase was founded in 2003, is privately funded, with headquarters in Amsterdam (HQ Global) and Atlanta (HQ Americas) and regional operations in Boisse, Cardiff, Dubai, Kraków, Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
