Android Engineer; Mid-level

About Freetrade

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.

We’re changing that. We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.

2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.

This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new product, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you!

Why Join Our Engineering Team?

Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of investments. As an engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a robust, scalable platform used by thousands daily. We tackle complex technical challenges, drive innovation, and build solutions that make a real impact. Here, your code doesn’t just run—it powers the decisions of investors across the UK. Join us and turn ideas into reality.

The Freetrade Android mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU.

We are looking for an Android Mobile Engineer to join our team at Freetrade.

The role requires someone with a good understanding of the Android mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.

This is a unique opportunity to work with knowledgeable and experienced mobile engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities.

As part of our dedicated mobile engineering team, you will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers. You will also help guide priorities around platform issues, technical debt, patterns, and architecture, ensuring we deliver a high-quality app and an excellent developer experience.

We have recently rebranded key parts of the app, creating a new design system from scratch built with Jetpack Compose, and have started transitioning to a modern, unified Graph

QL API using Apollo.

Our Mobile team’s tech stack:

• Our Android app is written fully in Kotlin
• We organise our components using the MVVM pattern
• We use Hilt for dependency injection
• We build screens using building blocks from our design system, built in Compose
• We use Firebase for authentication

• Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade Android app.
• Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including backend, design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features. Upcoming features include giving our customers the ability to invest in their kids’ futures with JISA accounts, and rewarding our customers for good investing habits by building a dedicated rewards hub.
• Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
• Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues. This can include communicating directly with customers where necessary, helping to instil trust in the team behind the product.