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title: 'Senior Android Engineer at Bankjoy'
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# Senior Android Engineer at Bankjoy

- **Company:** Bankjoy
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bankjoy/9ebfec14-14b7-43d8-8496-29f3beeca7a2

## Job description

🌐 Who We Are Bankjoy is a Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partner backed FinTech startup. We are changing the way community banks and credit unions do business, enabling them to become tech-driven and digital first. Bankjoy provides modern digital banking products including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan origination, and conversational AI. Our mission is to revolutionize banking tech infrastructure by leading digital transformation at financial institutions — big and small.

## Role Description

We're looking for a talented Sr. Android Engineer for our mobile team to join Bankjoy! You will be responsible for developing native Android code solutions to build digital banking products and features with best UI and UX practices. In this role, you will:

- Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality, user-centric Android experiences
- Design, develop, and maintain Android applications using Kotlin with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and usability
- Architect and implement robust, maintainable solutions aligned with best practices and long-term product goals
- Participate in feature planning, technical design, and effort estimation
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex product and performance issues
- Maintain and improve code quality through testing, code reviews, and continuous refactoring
- Write and maintain unit tests to ensure reliability and stability
- Keep the codebase current with evolving Android platforms, frameworks, and industry standards
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
- Document code, systems, and processes to support team knowledge sharing
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture
- Stay current with emerging Android technologies, tools, and trends

What you bring:

- 7+ years of professional software development experience, including 5+ years focused on Android development
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android development, with experience building scalable UI, state management, and app architecture.
- Proven experience designing, building, and shipping high-quality, scalable Android applications
- Strong understanding of software architecture patterns (MVVM, MVC, etc.) and best practices
- Solid experience integrating RESTful APIs, backend services, and third-party libraries
- Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and building intuitive user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and deliver projects end-to-end
- Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and improving team code quality
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with product, design, and backend teams
- Ability to make sound technical decisions and balance trade-offs in fast-paced environments
- Solid experience with testing practices (unit testing, UI testing, TDD) and maintaining high code quality standards
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows
- Track record of success in high-growth or startup environments, demonstrating ownership and adaptability
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, strong communication, and a collaborative mindset
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

🎁 What You Get

- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Competitive compensation
- Stock options at a well-funded startup
- We cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for individuals on our base plan, with significant contributions toward all other plan options (USA).
- We cover 100% of extended medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your family under our single, comprehensive plan (Canada).
- Retirement plan with 4% company matching
- 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing
- 3-5 weeks PTO depending on tenure
- 5 health days
- 15 holidays
- End of year shutdown
- Performance-based bonuses
- Remote first culture

⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunities at Bankjoy Bankjoy is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Bankjoy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

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## About Bankjoy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bankjoy provides an all-in-one digital banking platform for community banks, credit unions, and neo-banks to deliver modern, megabank-level digital experiences while preserving their community focus.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, backed by Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, and others)
- **Headquarters**: Detroit, Michigan, USA (remote-first team across North America)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Michael Duncan (CEO) and Weiwei Duncan (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech / Digital Banking
- **Target customers**: B2B – Community banks, credit unions, and neo-banks (85+ client institutions nationwide)
- **Mission**: To provide technology that helps people take control of their finances and live with confidence, purpose, and joy.

## Products & Services
- **Consumer Banking Solutions**: Modern mobile and online banking apps, including automated statements, conversational AI, and advanced security.
- **Online Account Opening**: A fully digital, 90-second onboarding process with face-matching photo ID verification and customizable workflows.
- **Online Loan Application**: Easy-to-use application workflows allowing members to apply for loans online without a branch visit.
- **Business Banking Solutions**: Secure, elegant cash, loan, and credit management tools for small businesses.
- **JoyCompass**: A personal financial wellness platform that gamifies finance, offers savings goals, budgeting, account aggregation, and financial wellness scoring.
- **FraudSense**: A real-time fraud prevention system built across the entire product suite, reducing manual review time by 80%.
- **Vertical Banking**: Enables clients to launch fully functional niche brands quickly (e.g., Panacea Financial for healthcare professionals).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: $10M in annual revenue (reached in 2024).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, CheckAlt, Curql. Several clients also invested in the Series A, making Bankjoy a CUSO (Credit Union Service Organization).
- **Growth Signals**: Serves 85+ financial institutions, serves over 1 million members, has a 4.8 app rating, and clients grow membership 55% faster than competitors. The company has launched new products yearly (JoyCompass in 2023, FraudSense in 2024, vertical banking in 2025).

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one ecosystem**: A unified, in-house-built platform (mobile, online, account opening, lending, fraud, financial wellness) that works seamlessly together, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Community focus**: Specifically designed for community financial institutions, not megabanks, with a CUSO structure that aligns incentives with clients.
- **Speed of innovation**: New product releases monthly, with a track record of rapid feature launches (e.g., FraudSense launched and showed 80% reduction in manual review within six months).
- **Client results**: Demonstrated ability to help clients grow membership 55% faster than competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening the unified ecosystem, expanding vertical banking solutions, continuing to innovate on fraud prevention and financial wellness, and scaling the client base beyond 85 institutions.
- **Direction**: Helping community banks and credit unions compete with megabanks by digitizing their "people helping people" advantage, while expanding into new niches (e.g., healthcare professionals) and business banking.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first team across North America (US and Canada). Values include "Seek Joy," "Lift Each Other Up," "Be a Good Human," "Honesty is Clarity," and "Lead Today for an Exceptional Tomorrow." Emphasis on autonomy, clear thinking, and fast execution in small, nimble teams.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Fully remote-first, with team members in cities including Vancouver, Calgary, Salt Lake City, Denver, Austin, Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, New York City, Montreal, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. Company-sponsored team meetups and travel stipends.
- **Perks (US)**: Competitive compensation, performance-based bonuses, stock options (well-funded startup in high growth), 100% family medical coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO (3 weeks year 1, 4 weeks year 2, 5 weeks at 5+ years), 5 sick/mental health days, 8 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- **Perks (Canada)**: Similar package with RRSP matching, competitive family medical coverage, and equivalent PTO/parental leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Fast-paced, collaborative environment with career development opportunities. Team members work on digital infrastructure behind millions of online financial experiences.
- **Notable**: Virtual escape rooms, spontaneous speed meets, and travel stipends to bring remote team together in person.

## Sources
1. [bankjoy.com](https://www.bankjoy.com/)
2. [bankjoy.com/jobs](https://www.bankjoy.com/jobs)
3. [bankjoy.com/people](https://bankjoy.com/people)
4. [linkedin.com/company/bankjoy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bankjoy)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/bankjoy](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bankjoy)

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