Staff Android Engineer

The Challenge 

More than 75% of Talk360's users are on Android. Every release you ship reaches hundreds of thousands of people across more than 190 countries - migrants calling home, travellers managing emergencies, families staying connected across borders. For these users, a dropped call or a crash isn't a UX inconvenience. It's a broken connection to someone who matters.

The craft challenge here is real. Our users are often on older devices, limited data plans, and unreliable networks. Building an app that performs beautifully under those conditions requires engineering excellence, not shortcuts. 

We're entering a new phase of growth. Talk360 is profitable, our B2B2C platform is expanding, and mobile remains one of the most important products in the company.

We're looking for a Staff Android Engineer to own our Android platform. Someone who is still deeply hands-on but naturally steps beyond writing code. Someone who enjoys making architectural decisions, raising engineering standards, partnering with Product, Operations to better understand the customer, and helping shape how millions of people experience Talk360. As the only fully dedicated Android Engineer in the company, we need someone who loves ownership and our challenge.

What You'll Do 

Own the Android platform

• Own the long-term technical direction of the Android application

• Drive architectural decisions that enable the product to scale over the coming years

• Continuously improve code quality, maintainability and developer experience

• Own the Android release process, technical health and platform reliability

• Ensure the app performs reliably on low-end devices and under poor network conditions

Build

• Design and build high-impact features including embedded calling, payments, authentication, Auto Top-Up and future platform capabilities

• Stay hands-on by contributing production code every sprint

• Solve complex technical problems across performance, networking, scalability and reliability

• Experiment with AI tooling to improve engineering quality and productivity—we're actively building an AI-first engineering culture

Partner across the business

• Work closely with Product to shape technical solutions before implementation 

• Collaborate across business to understand customer pain points and translate them into engineering improvements 

• Use customer feedback, analytics, crash reports and Play Store reviews to prioritise improvements 

• Help engineering make better product decisions, not just better technical ones 

The Team 

You’ll be working alongside Igor (iOS Mobile Lead) and Tom (Tech Lead). The wider tech team you’ll collaborate with includes Michal & Feyi (QA), Alex (Backend), Isah (Frontend), Oleg (Full Stack), and Yahaya (VoIP). On the product side, you’ll work closely with Quintin and Kseniia. 

Talk360 is a lean company, around 30 people globally, which means you’ll interact regularly across functions: ops, support, data, and marketing. That cross-functional visibility is one of the things that makes the work here interesting and your impact visible.

Tech Stack 

Must have

• Kotlin

• Jetpack Compose (plus familiarity with XML)

• Android Studio

• Git

• Experience owning production Android applications

• Experience making architectural decisions at scale

• Actively using AI throughout your development workflow

• Interest / understanding / experience in cross-platform development

Nice to have

• Kotlin Multiplatform

• VoIP or real-time communication

• Analytics and observability tooling (Mixpanel, Zabbix or similar)

Who You Are 

• You naturally take ownership without waiting for permission. 

• You enjoy solving hard technical problems while thinking about the bigger picture. 

• You care deeply about software craftsmanship and user experience. 

• You're comfortable making architectural decisions and explaining the trade-offs behind them. 

• You enjoy partnering with product teams and learning directly from customer feedback. 

• You like mentoring engineers and helping teams become stronger. 

• You're pragmatic. You know when perfection matters and when shipping matters more. 

• You're excited about building software that genuinely changes people's lives. 

• You're based in or around Amsterdam and able to come to our office twice a week 

What You Get 

• Competitive compensation 

  • €85,000–101,000 gross per year 

• Learning and growth 

  • €1,500 annual personal development budget, plus access to company-wide training sessions to keep learning and evolving. 

• Time to recharge 

  • 25 vacation days  

  • Option to swap two public holidays per year for days that better reflect your culture or beliefs  

  • Recharge Fridays, unlocked when team targets are met (we’ll tell you more during the interview)  

• Work from anywhere 

  • As a global and diverse team, we encourage you to work from another city or country for up to 2 weeks per year, gain fresh perspectives and spark new ideas. 

• A team you’ll actually want to be part of 

  • Weekly team lunch every Thursday  

  • Regular team moments and outings  

  • An international and diverse team, with colleagues from the Netherlands, South Africa, Nigeria, Suriname, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya, Ukraine and beyond  

• Set up for success 

  • Company laptop and all the tools you need to do your best work  

  • Monthly phone allowance and commuting allowance  

• An environment to grow and make impact 

  • A collaborative environment where you can learn from others, take ownership, and contribute to a meaningful mission. 

About Talk360 

Talk360 has grown into a global communications platform connecting more than 6 million people worldwide. We've successfully spun off our payments business into NjiaPay, stepped into the gap left by Skype, and built a profitable, sustainable business. 

We're now expanding beyond our own consumer app through our SDK, enabling partners to integrate Talk360's calling infrastructure directly into their own products. 

Our ambition is simple:  To become the world's most trusted way to call any phone number.

Here’s what our users say: 

“I like Talk360 because it saves me a lot of money. I used to call from Zimbabwe for 15 rands a minute. Talk360 came to the rescue. Now I can call my mother for hours.” — Google Play, South Africa ★★★★★ 

“Talk360 is a simple and reliable app for cheap international calls. It works even if the receiver has no internet, offers good call quality, and has transparent pricing.” — Google Play, United States ★★★★★ 

“It is a flawless experience with no hustles at all and the tariffs are more than just fair.” — Trustpilot, United Kingdom ★★★★★