Engineering Team Leader (Platform Android)

XTB is a global company from the financial industry, focusing on online trading of financial instruments. We are the largest FinTech in Poland and a leader in Central and Eastern Europe, and the range of our operations covers several countries, including Asia and South America. At XTB, we focus on the development of our employees, giving them opportunities to gain knowledge and skills in various fields, as well as offering a number of training and development programs. If you are looking for challenges and want to gain valuable experience in an international business environment, XTB is the right place for you. We are a certified Great Place to Work company.

By setting the bar high, we can always rely on each other. Within our department, we also organize workshops and guilds - meetings dedicated to specific areas or technologies, to continuously develop our skills and build a strong engineering community.

About the team:

We create tools and solutions that enable product teams to deliver business value faster, more safely, and more efficiently. We work on applications in a modular architecture, focusing on quality, scalability, maintainability, and modern technologies within the Android ecosystem.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Team Leader who will lead the Android Platform team - someone who combines strong technical competencies in the Android area with experience in team management and building a community (guild) of Android developers.

What do we expect?

• Proactive approach, ambition, and independence in tackling challenges of large projects,

• Taking responsibility for your area, decisions made, and the team,

• Courage in expressing your own vision and opinions, combined with effectiveness and consistency in executing ideas,

• Business-oriented mindset and the ability to choose technologies according to goals and product needs,

• Openness to collaboration with diverse teams and stakeholders.

Managerial skills:

• Ability to decompose tasks and incrementally deliver value within a defined timeframe,

• Conscious monitoring and management of technical debt,

• Optimal task delegation within the team,

• Building a culture of open, two-way feedback,

• Mentoring and supporting the development of team members' competencies,

• Experience in building a technical community, conducting workshops, and facilitating meetings,

• Effective conflict resolution.

Technical skills:

• Commercial experience in designing architecture and implementing complex mobile applications for the Android platform,

• Proficiency in technologies: Native Kotlin, Coroutines/Flow, Compose, Clean Architecture, MVI/MVVM,

• Experience in building Observability (Crashlytics, Analytics, etc.),

• Experience in creating automated tests in line with the testing pyramid in a mobile environment,

• Knowledge of good programming practices and ability to apply design patterns,

• Practical use of AI tools in engineering and managerial work.

Requirements

• Solid experience (background) as an Android developer,

• Several years of experience in the role of Senior Developer, Tech Lead, or Architect,

• Experience in formally managing a team as a manager,

• Practical experience in building and developing Android applications using Native Kotlin,

• Deep knowledge of: modular architecture, Clean Architecture, and MVI/MVVM,

• Practical application of the reactive approach: Coroutines/Flow,

• Experience in building UI using Jetpack Compose,

• Knowledge of scalability, performance, and reliability of mobile applications,

• Participation in end-to-end projects, from architecture design to production deployment (Google Play, CI/CD),

• Experience working with remote teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in building an internal Android developer community and initiating and running an Android Guild,

• Experience with backend architecture and APIs (e.g., REST, gRPC),

• Knowledge of Accessibility (WCAG) in mobile applications,

• Experience with CI/CD processes and deployment automation for mobile applications (e.g., GitLab CI, Bitrise). 

What we offer?

• Real influence on the development of the company and the product,

• Work in an experienced team that is happy to share its knowledge,

• A clear vision of development thanks to regular feedback and clear career paths,

• Regular team-building meetings.

Benefits

• A training budget for courses and conferences that interest you,

• An extra day off on your birthday,

• An extra day off for parents,

• Equipment tailored to your needs,

• Private medical care and group insurance,

• Access to an e-learning platform for learning English and a benefits platform,

• Access to a wellbeing platform and the opportunity to take advantage of workshops and private therapy sessions,

• Remote work, from the office in Warsaw or from a coworking space in your city.