Senior Mobile Engineer - Grant Growth Team

About the role

Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company focused on empowering individuals to achieve financial security. We've seen significant growth in 2025 and have developed a suite of products including credit building, liquidity access, and savings solutions. Our mission is to help millions of people manage their finances better.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale a top finance app on iOS and Android that directly impacts the financial lives of hundreds of thousands of users.
• Own end-to-end feature development across the user lifecycle, from identity verification to account management.
• Integrate with financial service providers like Plaid, Stripe, and Tabapay, ensuring robust mobile interfaces for sensitive financial data.
• Develop reusable components and design system elements to accelerate experimentation and innovation on our multi-brand mobile platform (Grant, Kikoff, Banking).
• Enhance mobile platform foundations, including improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer velocity for a growing team.
• Work closely with product, data science, and operations teams to ship features that improve customer financial wellbeing while maintaining high standards of reliability, security, and compliance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of mobile development experience with a proven track record of building and scaling production apps on iOS and/or Android.
• Strong mobile architecture skills, including a deep understanding of state management patterns, app architecture (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture), and maintaining maintainable codebases at scale.
• Production app ownership, with experience handling crashes, edge cases, and maintaining features through multiple releases.
• A solid foundation in iOS (Swift/UIKit/SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java/Jetpack Compose) development.
• A testing mindset, comfortable writing unit, integration, and UI tests to ensure quality from the start.
• API integration experience, skilled at working with REST APIs, handling async operations, error states, and building resilient network layers.
• Familiarity with Flutter/Dart, or strong willingness to learn, given our codebase is Flutter-based.
• Fintech experience, such as background with payment systems, banking APIs (Plaid, Stripe), identity verification (Sentilink, Persona), or financial services infrastructure.
• Technical leadership, able to own complex mobile initiatives end-to-end, from architecture design through implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Mentorship, helping to level up the team through code reviews, design docs, technical guidance, and establishing mobile best practices.
• An impact focus, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery - knowing when to build for scale versus shipping fast and learning.
• Cross-functional collaboration, partnering effectively with backend engineers, product, and designers to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.
• Operational excellence, taking ownership of the reliability and performance of features you build, monitoring production issues, and iterating quickly.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for creating impactful software solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

• Swift, Kotlin, Java, or Dart
• SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or Flutter
• REST APIs, GraphQL, or similar
• CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes
• Unit, integration, and UI testing frameworks
• Financial services infrastructure, payment systems, identity verification
• Agile methodologies, DevOps practices

Benefits

• Competitive base salary range of $244,000 - $292,000 USD
• Health insurance, dental, vision, and wellness programs
• Paid time off, flexible work schedule, and remote work options
• Professional development opportunities and mentorship programs
• Employee referral bonuses and recognition programs

Pay

• Base salary range: $244,000 - $292,000 USD

Schedule

• Full-time position

Company Culture

• Collaborative and inclusive environment
• Opportunities for career growth and advancement
• Regular team-building activities and social events
• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. Please reference the following for more information.