Android Engineer (Mid-level) in London

About Freetrade

Freetrade's mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings. We're changing that. We're building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you're driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you'll fit right in.

2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game-changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We'll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space. This year, we're accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We're building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We're also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new product, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you!

Why Join Our Engineering Team?

Be part of a team that's shaping the future of investments. As an engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a robust, scalable platform used by thousands daily. We tackle complex technical challenges, drive innovation, and build solutions that make a real impact. Here, your code doesn't just run—it powers the decisions of investors across the UK. Join us and turn ideas into reality.

The Freetrade Android mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU. We are looking for an Android Mobile Engineer to join our team at Freetrade. The role requires someone with a good understanding of the Android mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.

This is a unique opportunity to work with knowledgeable and experienced mobile engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities. As part of our dedicated mobile engineering team, you will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers. You will also help guide priorities around platform issues, technical debt, patterns, and architecture, ensuring we deliver a high-quality app and an excellent developer experience.

We have recently rebranded key parts of the app, creating a new design system from scratch built with Jetpack Compose, and have started transitioning to a modern, unified GraphQL API using Apollo.

Our Mobile team’s tech stack:

• Our Android app is written fully in Kotlin
• We organise our components using the MVVM pattern
• We use Hilt for dependency injection
• We build screens using building blocks from our design system, built in Compose
• We use Firebase for authentication

What you’ll be doing & your impact:

• Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade Android app.
• Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including backend, design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features. Upcoming features include giving our customers the ability to invest in their kids' futures with JISA accounts, and rewarding our customers for good investing habits by building a dedicated rewards hub.
• Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues. This can include communicating directly with customers where necessary, helping to instil trust in the team behind the product.

What you bring to the team:

• Typically around 4-5 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
• Strong ability to problem solve and passionate about improving your skills and knowledge
• Good understanding of mobile architectural patterns, such as MVVM or MVI
• Experience in using industry standard tools for Android development, such as Kotlin, Dagger, Jetpack libraries
• Familiarity with Jetpack Compose for building modern, composable user interfaces
• Experience of using reactive libraries, such as coroutines or Rx
• Good understanding of Android frameworks development, with either an imperative or declarative approach
• Familiarity with using APIs to connect Android applications to backend services.
• Develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines.
• Working understanding of using code version control tools (such as Git), appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).

Benefits & Interview Process

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.

• Hybrid working culture: We’re operating in a hybrid model: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our beautiful offices in central London and Budapest are designed to bring people together.
• Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
• Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday
• This setup helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and keep building a culture where we all do our best work together, including dedicated days for focus work.
• Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility let’s talk about it, whether you’re a parent or have other care responsibilities.

Values

At Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

• Bonus Scheme: join us and share in our growth. Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact. First payouts: July 2026.
• Holidays – 25 days plus UK public holidays. Your birthday off, plus one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
• Enhanced pension – We’ll match your contributions up to 5%.
• Group Life Insurance – Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance.
• Private Health Insurance - Which includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.
• Income Protection Cover – Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
• Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
• Flexibility for those who need it – We’re office-first, but life happens. Whether you’re a parent or have care responsibilities, we focus on output and trust you to manage your time.
• Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax free monthly instalments.
• Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.

Interview Process

• Initial interview – A chat with one of our Senior Talent Partners.
• Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
• Live Coding – Show us how you think and solve problems.
• System Design – We’ll explore how you design systems to handle real-world challenges.
• Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.

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