Mobile Software Developer Lead
Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.
Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.
About the opportunity
Dayforce Wallet is Dayforce’s on-demand pay and financial wellness solution that lets employees access, manage, and spend their earnings as soon as they’re earned – not just on payday. Through the free Dayforce Wallet mobile app and Dayforce Wallet Card, employees can:
- view available earned pay and request funds in real time
- receive pay on demand to a Dayforce Wallet Card or other supported accounts
- monitor balances and transaction history
- transfer funds
- access cash via a network of fee-free ATMs
By combining on-demand pay, a prepaid Mastercard®-branded pay card, and helpful money-management tools, Dayforce Wallet supports employees’ financial wellness and aligns with our broader brand promise to Make Work Life Better™ for organizations and their people.
We’re looking for a Senior/Tech Lead Android Software Developer to help shape the future of our mobile platforms for Dayforce Wallet. You will contribute to architecture and design decisions, solve complex technical challenges, mentoring, and help drive engineering excellence across the team. You will concentrate on building the Dayforce Wallet product natively for Android, while also coordinating technical decisions across partner teams (iOS, backend services, QA, Product, and Technical Writing) to ensure the product is functionally complete, secure, performant, and technically solid.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing innovator in a technically challenging and rewarding role
What you'll get to do
- Analyze, design, prototype, develop, test, release, and support—complete software, with accountability for Android technical outcomes.
- Work with the product owner, stakeholders, business analysts, and other Dayforce developers to envision and deliver required functionality—translating product goals into technical plans, milestones, and trade-offs.
- Create and enhance a scalable enterprise application for Android devices, using modern Android architectural guidance (layered architecture and unidirectional data flow) and Android lifecycle-aware state management to keep the product maintainable at scale.
- Assess risks and impacts on the existing system as new functions are added—specifically addressing Android considerations such as device/OS fragmentation, background execution constraints, and Play distribution requirements.
- Lead in Android architecture and technical direction: define and evolve app architecture standards, module boundaries, dependency rules, and coding conventions; ensure alignment with Android best practices (UI/Data/optional Domain separation).
- Lead technical planning and roadmap execution for Android: drive feasibility analysis, sequencing, and technical risk management; partner with Product to balance delivery and sustainability.
- Mentor and coach Android developers through pair programming, design reviews, and feedback loops; elevate team capability through structured mentoring and thought leadership.
- Coordinate ongoing sprint work across feature teams, making sure Android dependencies and cross-team integration points are visible and actively managed.
- Peer review code to ensure it meets quality and architecture standards; establish and enforce a consistent review bar and reviewer practices.
- Own Android release management: define “release readiness” checks, coordinate versioning, and manage rollout strategies.
- Familiarity of CI/CD for Android: familiarity with automated builds, testing, and static analysis are integrated into the delivery pipeline, including Android lint and Gradle-based builds.
- Drive quality engineering across testing layers and ensure test strategy supports rapid iteration without compromising stability.
- Own performance/scalability posture: identify bottlenecks and regressions using Android Studio profiling tools and performance instrumentation; partner on remediation and guardrails.
- Own security-by-design for the mobile client: apply Android security best practices (secure communication, safe storage, least privilege) and partner with platform/security stakeholders on threat modeling and risk mitigation.
- Contribute to hiring and team scaling: participate in interview loops, provide leveling input, and help define role expectations and the Android technical bar.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineering and leadership audiences; provide crisp status, risk, and decision framing.
Skills and experience we value
- 7+ years of active native Android development (Kotlin and/or Java), including shipping and supporting production Android apps over multiple release cycles. (Kotlin is a core, officially supported language for Android, aligned with Android’s Kotlin-first approach.)
- Experience in technical leadership capacity, demonstrating ownership of architecture, delivery governance, and cross-team coordination.
- Elevates team capability through mentorship and thought leadership.
- Kotlin programming expertise
- Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android UI development is a strong asset.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling Android architecture patterns aligned with official guidance: layered architecture (UI/Data/optional Domain), state holders (ViewModel), and unidirectional data flow principles.
- Coroutines and Flow experience for structured concurrency and asynchronous data streams.
- Dependency injection experience, preferably with Dagger 2.
- Data persistence experience.
- Networking experience consuming JSON/web-based APIs; familiarity with commonly used Android HTTP clients.
- Automation testing mindset and practice: local unit tests and UI tests.
- Familiarity with build and release fundamentals using CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written); ability to write clear design notes and communicate trade-offs.
- Committed to sustainable development, testing, and high-quality code; proven ability to mentor and raise the team’s technical bar.
- Personal development of Android apps (e.g., published Play Store apps, modules/libraries).
- A passion for UI & UX with implementation quality, scalability, and accessibility-minded design choices.
- Experience working in an agile development environment; comfort leading technical planning, refinements, and execution in sprints.
- Experience in enterprise software development, including secure-by-design delivery and stakeholder alignment across functions.
- Experience with release automation and operational tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions CI workflows).
- Operates effectively in fast-evolving technical environments.
- Demonstrates strong architectural thinking and long-term systems design perspective.
- Takes ownership of end-to-end system quality and application health, including instrumentation and release monitoring.
- Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to engineering and leadership audiences.
What’s in it for you
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.
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