Android Lead Engineer

As an Android Lead, you’ll elevate not just the product, but the Android guild behind it. You’ll define and drive the Android tech roadmap, introduce and safeguard best practices, and set up the quality gates that ensure we ship with confidence. You’ll keep a close eye on performance, monitoring, and overall engineering velocity, continuously seeking ways to help the team move faster and smarter. You’ll collaborate across departments on company-wide initiatives, and play a key role in developing and mentoring other Android engineers, helping them grow and enabling the teams to thrive.

Our culture is built around self-managing, cross-functional product teams where developers, designers, and product managers collaborate closely to deliver impactful features. You will be actively involved in shaping and building features end-to-end, from discovery to delivery, ensuring we build the right things in the right way.

You’ll work with a modern Android stack and enjoy the freedom, ownership, and learning culture that define Temper.

🧩 Your Role at Temper 

• Around 60% of time spent doing hands on work, while 40% time dedicated to guild lead activities

• Define and maintain discipline standards, best practices, and tooling to ensure consistent, high-quality engineering.

• Guide technical direction by reviewing designs, tracking emerging technologies, and aligning discipline decisions with company-wide architecture.

• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering knowledge sharing through demos, talks, and documentation.

• Cultivate a psychologically safe, collaborative environment that encourages experimentation and constructive feedback.

• Drive discipline-wide initiatives, including guild leadership, cross-team coordination, and supporting hiring, leveling, and onboarding.

🤝 Your Future Team

You’ll begin your journey in the Finding & Matching team, the group responsible for creating perfect matches between Clients and Workers. As a Lead, you may move between teams as needed, stepping in where your expertise can drive critical projects forward.

Requirements

💪 What You Bring to the Team

✅ Must-Haves

• Experience with leading other Android/mobile engineers

• 5+ years of experience in developing native Android applications

• Strong understanding of the Android ecosystem

• Experience or willingness to learn Kotlin Multiplatform

• Interest in making a big impact rather than just polishing small details.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to adapt quickly in a scale-up environment

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and collaborative development tools 

⭐ Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in working with remote team

• Experience working in fast-growing scale or start-ups

• Experience with Appium

• Experience with writing backend services or Go language

• Familiarity with monitoring and analytics tools for mobile apps.

• Open-source contributions/projects on GitHub

Our stack

• We use Kotlin to develop all our applications

• We follow Clean Architecture and use MVVM on the presentation layer

• We use Jetpack Compose for the native UI and navigation 

• We share some logic between iOS and Android apps with help of Kotlin Multiplatform

• We don’t have manual QA, engineers are responsible for writing unit and end-to-end (Appium) tests

🎁 Perks & Benefits

• Flexible working (for real): Some of us want to get out of bed early, others are night owls. We focus on results, not on what time you start or where you do your work.

• Company Equity Plan (SARs): We want everyone at Temper to Own It and be part of our growth and success.

• Learning & Development budget: Once a year, you’ll receive a generous personal budget to develop your skills.

• Unlimited vacation days: As long as you get a thumbs-up from your manager, you can always take vacation days to rest and recoup your energy.

• Pension scheme: You will be eligible to be enrolled into our pension plan.

• Annual Well-being budget to spend on your gym or yoga club membership, health insurance, new pair of running shoes, etc.

• Learn Through Candor: Frequent, direct feedback and both internal and external learning opportunities.

• Travel expenses if you come to the office. In addition, we have great lunch options waiting for you too!

• Home working allowance, plus a home office budget for a comfy desk chair, laptop, and whatever else you need.

🚀 Why Temper?

Are you passionate about helping people adjust work to fit their lives, not the other way around? At Temper, our mission is to revolutionize the labor market with technology, making it fairer, more accessible, and efficient. We empower the new generation of workers who crave flexibility and control over when and where they work,  by providing them with a solution right at their fingertips!

What makes our platform successful is that it is built around our users’ needs: We do it for them! We take pride in our user centric approach, constantly evolving to meet their demands and exceed expectations. Our goal is to give businesses a tool that lets them easily connect with great people looking for flexible shift work.

At Temper, every team member has the opportunity to make a significant impact. Our core value, "We Own It," drives our culture (quite literally, as you will see in our equity plan). We believe in empowering you to take ownership and responsibility, so that together, we can take Temper to the next level.

Our unique culture is proudly embodied by our colleagues at Temper. With over 17 nationalities represented, we embrace remote work across more than 10 countries, alongside our bustling offices in Amsterdam and London. Several times a year, we come together to connect, share knowledge, and foster our vibrant community.

Join us on this exciting journey as we redefine the future of work! Your passion and dedication will shape the way millions approach their careers worldwide.