About PayJoy
PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology creates collateral that enables customers to afford their first smartphone on credit and then allows them further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being.
Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached hundreds of thousands of customers in a dozen countries around the globe, from Mexico to Indonesia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria, and is on a strong growth path with support from major industry partners to bring credit to millions in 2019.
PayJoy has an opportunity for a full-time partner engineering position to help us build the technology that will enable the next billion people to afford high quality smartphones. Our unique locking technology includes some proprietary “secret sauce” based on undocumented parts of Android OS and firmware, as well as app design, web frontend and backend, and partner API integrations. You should be prepared to embrace technical challenges and willing to learn new technologies quickly.
PayJoy is fortunate to have an impressive array of technology, finance and distribution partners who are critical to helping us fulfill our mission. They combine our products with theirs to bring consumer finance to users. Partner engineers work closely with these partners to help them understand, design and deploy solutions around PayJoy's products.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science from a top CS university or previous employment at a top technology company
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years experience in Android firmware development
- Should understand the low-level architecture of AOSP and Google Android platform in general
- Experience in Android design patterns and best practices
- Familiar with mobile security, including the use of cryptography and protocols like https
- Familiar with SQL
- Ideally, the candidate will have experience of working with Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions
Responsibilities
- Works with OEMs to help them deploy PayJoy Access (PayJoy firmware) on their phones
- Works with product development team to create, enhance, and deploy PayJoy Access
- Implement Android features on PayJoy apps and troubleshoot live Android bugs affecting user experience, client-server communication, and security, to help us scale to millions of customers.
- Travel globally, as required, for OEM integrations and internal and external events
As part of PayJoy, you will have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that immediately impact our customers, work alongside seasoned engineers and entrepreneurs, and contribute to a startup that is experiencing rapid growth.