SDE 3 - Android

About us

slice

A new bank for a new India slice's purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We've all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we're reimagining it. We're building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you'll get to build things you'd use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We're backed by some of the world's leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the team

Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you've opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we're trying to build a world-class core banking product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ; in your code, they got your back till the code runs successfully.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE-3) to join our mobile engineering team. You will take ownership of building high-quality mobile experiences using the Flutter framework, while driving technical decisions across native modules on Android and iOS when required.

In this role, you will work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and engineering leadership to define, design, and ship scalable mobile capabilities while contributing to the core banking platform used across the organization.

You will take ownership of mobile architecture, complex technical problems, and platform-level improvements, while raising engineering standards and enabling the team to build reliable and high-performing mobile experiences.

What You will do

• Partner with Product, UX/UI, Backend, and engineering leadership to analyse complex requirements, define technical solutions, and build consumer-facing features.
• Drive the design and development of reusable Flutter components, libraries, and shared modules that improve engineering efficiency across teams.
• Own and evolve scalable mobile architectures, making sound technical decisions around modularization, maintainability, testability, and long-term platform health.
• Drive continuous integration and delivery practices with QA and platform teams to improve release stability, reliability, and engineering velocity.
• Own mobile application performance and reliability, identifying systemic issues across rendering, memory, startup time, networking, and device behaviour.
• Lead the debugging and resolution of complex production issues, including performance bottlenecks, crashes, memory leaks, and issues spanning Flutter and native layers.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, technical mentoring, and driving engineering best practices across the mobile team.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of Flutter ecosystem tools, libraries, native technologies, and platform improvements that strengthen the mobile engineering foundation.

What you will need

• 5-8 years of experience building mobile applications, with a strong foundation and hands on experience in Android, Kotlin, and Kotlin Coroutines, along with recent hands on experience working with Flutter and Dart
• Experience with AI SDLC.
• Strong experience designing and evolving scalable, maintainable, and modular mobile architectures.
• Deep understanding of Flutter framework, widgets, layouts, navigation using navigation 2.0 or go_router, and state management approaches such as Bloc, Provider, Riverpod, GetX etc.
• Strong experience with Platform/method channels and integrating Flutter applications with native Android and iOS frameworks.
• Strong experience integrating RESTful APIs and handling JSON-based client-server communication at scale.
• Strong debugging and performance engineering skills, including identifying rendering bottlenecks, memory leaks, crashes, startup issues, and device-specific problems using Flutter developer tools.
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
• Strong understanding of mobile design patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture, with the ability to make architecture decisions based on product and engineering requirements.
• Strong experience writing unit, widget, and integration tests and building applications with a focus on reliability and testability.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and using tools such as Jira or similar project management systems.
• Strong understanding of mobile UX principles, responsive UI design, and building high-quality consumer mobile experiences.
• Strong hands-on experience with Android (Kotlin) or iOS (Swift) native modules is a plus.

Life at slice

Life so good, you'd think we're kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We'll love you and take care of you, our promise.
• Flexible working hours. Just don't call us at 3 AM, we like our sleep schedule.
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel at home. An environment so good, you'll forget the term colleagues can't be your friends.