Android Engineer (AI)

Location: Japan; hybrid work from the Japan office at least 3 days per week

Company

hirify.global operates a digital insurance and financial services platform serving customers across Southeast Asia and is expanding into spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travel products.

What you will do

• Build and ship native Android features for KIRA's AI Neobank App using Kotlin.
• Create clean mobile flows for insurance, payments, claims, renewals, and other financial services.
• Work with product and design to simplify complex user journeys.
• Integrate backend APIs and maintain stable, secure, and reliable mobile flows.
• Improve performance, crash rates, loading states, responsiveness, and memory usage.
• Use analytics, user behavior, and production issues to improve the product, including AI-assisted experiences where they add value.

Requirements

• 3+ years of Android development experience using Kotlin.
• Strong Android fundamentals and experience shipping production applications.
• Knowledge of Jetpack, Coroutines, Flow, and modern Android architecture.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and debugging production issues.
• Strong understanding of mobile UX, usability, edge cases, and user flows.
• Strong English communication is required; English is the main working language across global teams.

Nice to have

• App links, GitHub profile, screenshots, or examples of shipped work.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL or TensorFlow Lite for on-device inference.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a startup environment with fast execution and high ownership.
• Build financial products designed to make complex services easier to use.
• Prioritize clean code, product quality, performance, reliability, and honest attribution of individual contributions.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams representing more than 20 nationalities.

Hiring process

• Online assessment or practical task.
• Role-specific interview.
• CEO/final interview round, with a target of completing the process and making an offer within one week from the start of interviews for strong candidates.