Department: Engineering

Location: London

Compensation: £38,000 - £50,000 / year

Description

Android Mobile Engineer
London, Onsite

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.

We are looking for an Android mobile engineer to join our team at Freetrade. The Freetrade Android mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU.

The role requires someone with a good understanding of the Android mobile platform, the ability to problem solve, and the passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with knowledgeable and experienced mobile engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities.

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...

• 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.
• 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
  
  

You have...

• Typically around 2-3 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
• Strong ability to problem solve and passion 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
• 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.
• Started to develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines.
• Working understanding of using code versioning tools (such as Git).
• Appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).
  
  

Benefits & Logistics

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.

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

Office first culture - we have beautiful office spaces in central London and Budapest where four days a week you collaborate with colleagues in person, one of our core behaviours is that we’re a team that works better together.

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

Benefits In London:

• Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
• 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 installments.
• Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.

Following the close of the deal to become part of IG Group, you can expect that our benefits package will further improve to align with the benefits on offer.

Interview Process
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:

• Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Specialists.
• Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
• Live Coding – Show us how you think and solve problems.
• System Design
• Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.
  
  

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