Software Development Engineer III (Android)

About Groww

We’re a passionate group of people on a mission to make financial services accessible to every Indian through a multi-product platform. Every day, we help millions of customers take charge of their financial journey.

Customer obsession is in our DNA. From product and design to technology and the tiniest details, we build with our customers’ needs and convenience at the centre.

Our people are our greatest strength. We’re driven by ownership, customer-centricity, integrity, and a constant desire to challenge the status quo.

If you’re passionate about solving complex problems, building at scale, and creating products that impact millions of users, let’s chat.

Our Vision

Everyone deserves the knowledge, tools, and confidence to make informed financial decisions.

At Groww, we’re working towards empowering every Indian to make better financial decisions through a cutting-edge, multi-product financial services platform.

Our long-term vision is to become the trusted financial partner for millions of Indians.

Our Values

Our culture enables us to be what we are — India’s fastest-growing financial services company.

At Groww, everyone has the autonomy and flexibility to do their best work and build a meaningful career.

Our values form the foundation of everything we do:

• Radical customer-centricity

• Ownership-driven culture

• Keeping everything simple

• Long-term thinking

• Complete transparency

What You’ll Do

As an SDE 3 – Android, you will play a key role in building and scaling mobile experiences used by millions of customers.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable Android applications.

• Own complex technical problems end-to-end — from understanding requirements and designing solutions to implementation, testing, and monitoring.

• Drive architecture and technical design for large-scale Android features and systems.

• Make informed decisions around performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Work closely with Product, Design, Backend, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful customer experiences.

• Identify technical bottlenecks and proactively improve app performance, stability, and developer productivity.

• Establish and advocate for engineering best practices, coding standards, design patterns, and clean architecture.

• Participate actively in design and code reviews, raising the engineering bar across the team.

• Mentor engineers and help them grow technically and professionally.

• Break down complex problems into simpler, actionable solutions while balancing short-term execution with long-term technical investments.

• Contribute to building a strong engineering culture through knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical discussions.

What We’re Looking For

• 5–7 years of professional experience in Android application development.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Android SDK.

• Strong understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimisation.

• Proven experience designing and building large-scale, consumer-facing mobile applications.

• Strong understanding of Jetpack components, including ViewModel, LiveData/Flow, Navigation, Room, WorkManager, etc.

• Strong experience with Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, and modern Android development practices.

• Deep understanding of UI development, including custom views, layouts, animations, accessibility, and responsive design.

• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, networking, and asynchronous programming.

• Experience with Retrofit/OkHttp or similar networking frameworks.

• Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.

• Experience designing modular, maintainable, and testable codebases.

• Strong understanding of Git, CI/CD, debugging, logging, monitoring, and crash analysis.

• Experience identifying and resolving performance, stability, and scalability issues in production applications.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently on ambiguous problems.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Jetpack Compose.

• Experience building and maintaining modular Android architectures.

• Experience with RxJava.

• Experience with Firebase, Analytics, Crashlytics, or other observability tools.

• Experience working with payments, financial products, authentication, or other high-security domains.

• Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, and product analytics.

• Experience contributing to or driving technical architecture and engineering standards across teams.

• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Why Groww?

At Groww, you’ll get the opportunity to solve challenging engineering problems at scale and build products that impact millions of Indians.

You’ll work with talented engineers, have the autonomy to make meaningful technical decisions, and have the opportunity to shape both the product and the technology behind it.

Build for millions. Own your work. Grow with Groww.