Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Android Engineer role stands out in a SaaS landscape where mobile clients are increasingly the primary product surface, not a companion app. The remit spans Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with an explicit emphasis on cross platform parity, which is a common pressure point for subscription products that need consistent capabilities and UX across devices. The mention of a Series B stage suggests a company investing in product maturity while still making foundational platform decisions.
For a SaaS career, the most durable learning here comes from owning feature delivery alongside reliability work. The inclusion of Tier II support and problem solving to reduce customer issues signals exposure to real world product friction, an important feedback loop in SaaS where retention depends on day to day usability. The optional path into server side work and GraphQL also builds a more full stack understanding of how mobile experiences map to APIs, authentication, and data models.
This role fits engineers who prefer high autonomy, can move between new development and investigative debugging, and enjoy translating product intent into maintainable architecture. It also suits candidates who value clear technical evaluation, given the structured interview steps and trial format.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are Jump (jumpapp.com) and we’re a pretty awesome place to work, if I may say so. We’re growing really fast, moving really fast, our customers love us, and we have an incredible team of A+ people. Weren’t you just wishing you had more excitement in your life? :)
We’re looking for engineers to help build awesome mobile apps! (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose)
Autonomy, agency, ownership are all core traits we value as a team.
Excitement, passion, and intelligent fascination with the problems and solutions related to mobile development are fundamental needs.
Kindness, empathy, and a desire to help your teammates as we take on collective responsibility for collective efforts will be markers for individual success.
Who might be a good fit for this role:
- 2-3 years of experience building Jetpack compose apps.
- Though you may not have years of programming experience, you know you’ve got a knack for it.
- Really smart and adaptable
- You work really quickly and don’t quit until you figure something out
- An understanding of the fundamental similarities and differences between Jetpack compose and SwiftUI
- Past experience or willingness to learn server-side programming (Elixir, Phoenix Framework, GraphQL)
- Nice to have: Past experience with Microsoft Intune integrations in mobile apps
What you would do in this role:
- Build new Android app features
- Bring features that exist in one platform to the other to reach parity
- Help with Tier II support. If CX can’t figure out a customer issue, you look deeper into it.
- Work with product/engineering to brainstorm how to solve problems and reduce customer issues
- Fix bugs, build features, etc that help reduce customer issues
- Design/plan and build great mobile architectures that map well to both platforms
- Implement cross platform code for business logic
- Write tests for new features and implement tests for existing features
Our hiring process:
- A quick 35 minute screening assignment
- A technical interview
- A quick 30 minute get to know you
- A paid trial week
Other info:
- We buy whatever subscriptions you need (Cursor.ai, ChatGPT, etc)
- We’re a small and efficient dev team
- We just raised $80 million in our Series B
- We’re growing gangbusters. All revenue-backed, super low churn.
- Fixed monthly rate ($6,933-$12,133/mo) depending on experience
- 15-30 day notice period
- HQ based in Salt Lake City, Utah
- You can work any hours (aiming for 3 hours overlapping HQ's hours) from anywhere outside of the United States
- Our code is clean, well tested, well architected and fun to work in. You’ll love how quickly you can ship stuff!
- Note candidates must wait at least six months before re-applying for the same role if they did did not pass their first time. After their second attempt, the timelines for reapplying are extended. Candidates who apply sooner will be disqualified from the hiring process.
