Mobile Engineer — Android

About the role

The Android app is the surface area where most of our borrowers actually meet MontariPay. It needs to feel fast on a Tecno Spark from 2021, on 2G, in a Lagos garage with one bar of signal.

It is React Native (TypeScript) with React Query, secured local storage, and a small native module set for biometric auth and BVN tokenisation.

What you'll do

• Own the Android-specific surface of the app: APK size, cold start time, jank, install conversion, biometric flows.
• Ship features alongside one iOS engineer and the design team — usually 1–2 features a sprint.
• Drive offline tolerance: queue-and-retry for repayments, optimistic UI for application steps.
• Maintain the Play Store presence — release notes, screenshots, store listing experiments.
• Pair with backend on API contracts so you never wait on a blocking server change.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years shipping production Android apps, with at least one consumer app at scale.
• React Native + TypeScript fluency, or strong native Kotlin willing to come back to RN.
• You care about size, performance and the Tecno-on-2G case as much as the iPhone-on-Wi-Fi case.
• Worked through Play Store review at least once, including a rejection.
• Comfortable in a small team — you write your own tests, your own release notes, your own changelog.

Bonus points

• Native modules for biometrics or secure storage.
• Detox or end-to-end tooling experience.
• Built a fintech or money-moving app before.

The team

Reports into Tunde Balogun (CTO). Pairs with one iOS engineer, two designers, and the customer-success lead.

The hiring process

1. 01
   ApplicationA note to jobs@montaripay.com — your CV, what you'd do, what you want to learn.
2. 02
   Intro call30 minutes with the hiring manager. We talk about the role, you ask anything.
3. 03
   Take-home or pairingA small, paid task that mirrors something we actually shipped recently. Two-hour cap.
4. 04
   Onsite loopA 3-hour day at the V.I. office (or full-day on Zoom). You meet your future teammates.
5. 05
   OfferA written offer with comp, equity and start date — within 48 hours of the loop.