Android Engineer in London

Join us to build the future of financial advice - personal, accessible, and built for today. Financial advice has been too expensive, exclusive, and out of reach for too long. At Clove, we're combining trusted advisers with technology to close the advice gap and help people make smarter decisions with their money. As one of our first hires, you'll shape how advice works for today - personal, accessible, and built around real lives.

You'll own the Android app experience end-to-end, from early prototypes to polished releases. You'll work closely with design and our other engineers to solve real problems from first principles, shaping the approach as you go, and turn that into interfaces that feel simple, fast, and trustworthy. We're a small team, so this role is a mix of design-minded engineer and engineering-minded designer: you'll sweat the details, iterate in tight loops with design, and turn high taste into shippable, maintainable product.

In a world where the "can we build it?" bar keeps dropping, the real differentiator is how the app makes someone feel - confident, in control, and cared for. And beyond that: a little bit like they've got superpowers. It should be fun. It should feel genuinely magical; through the details of the UI, motion, and interaction design.

Your background

• Product-minded: you care about the user problem, you ship, and you iterate based on data and user feedback.
• Strong Android engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping high-quality apps.
• High ownership and autonomy: you can take ambiguous problems from "vague" to "shipped", bring others along, and drive them through to impact. There are no PMs here.
• A true self-starter: you don't wait to be told what to do, and you take ownership end-to-end.
• You don't settle for mediocrity. You push the quality bar and keep raising what "great" looks like.
• A love of building and learning by doing: you prototype, measure, iterate, and you enjoy the loop.
• First-principles thinking and healthy skepticism: you ask "why?", challenge assumptions, and look for simpler, better foundations.
• Excellent product taste: you care about typography, spacing, motion, and the "last 10%" details that make an experience feel premium.
• Comfort building complicated UI and stateful flows with clean, maintainable code.

Nice-to-haves

• Jetpack Compose expertise and experience designing reusable UI systems.
• 0→1 experience: you've taken a product from a blank page to something people love.
• Comfortable with backend technologies and collaborating across the stack.
• Comfortable diving into analytics dashboards, understanding what's happening, and turning it into product improvements.
• Comfortable talking directly with users.
• Experience working in regulated or high-trust environments (fintech, health, identity), where clarity and correctness matter.
• Experience working in an early-stage team where you set patterns, not just follow them.

Your impact

• Build and ship new onboarding and advice experiences with a strong bias for experimentation and learning.
• Create complex, high-craft interfaces (dynamic forms, rich state, thoughtful motion, and edge-case handling) that still feel effortless to use, including polished animations and transitions that communicate state, reduce cognitive load, and make the experience feel premium.
• Push what's possible on Android: modern UI patterns, performance, accessibility, and delightful micro-interactions.
• Set the foundations for Android engineering at Clove: architecture, quality bar, testing, release cadence, and observability.
• Partner tightly with design and product to iterate quickly, then refine until it's genuinely excellent.

Our offer

A chance to join a small, senior team building Clove from the ground up. You'll have ownership, flexibility, and real impact - backed by trust, momentum, and a mission that matters.

Our process

We keep it simple: real conversations with the founding team, practical exercises if useful, and clarity about what we expect from each other. No hoops for the sake of it.