inDrive

Global ride-hailing platform with fare negotiation

Android Tech Lead - Delivery Quality Team

Mobile EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeAlmaty, KazakhstanNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

At least 6 years of commercial Android development experience.
Expertise in Kotlin and modern Android APIs.
Hands-on experience with Retrofit, OkHttp, Coroutines, Flow, RxJava for legacy systems, Jetpack Compose, WorkManager, Google Maps, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and Gradle.
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, feature flags, and large-scale A/B experimentation.
Strong understanding of offline storage, concurrency, performance tuning, and network debugging.
Practical production expertise in Clean Architecture and mainstream patterns such as MVI, MVVM, or MVP.
Deep understanding of client-server interaction, including how to make it efficient and knowledge of feature-specific capabilities and limitations across use cases.
A proven record of mentoring and technical leadership, shaping processes, and improving engineering quality across teams.
Strong understanding of backend-service principles, API design, networking, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Experience setting up telemetry, dashboards, and automated alerts for production systems, and assessing and mitigating risk.
Ability to drive alignment across multiple teams through communication, strategic thinking, and influence.
An AI-first mindset and readiness to adopt AI tools in engineering processes.

Responsibilities

Translate business needs into a technical strategy with measurable outcomes and ensure alignment with the global company strategy.
Identify and propose architectural and technical improvements across the product and platform using data and trade-off analysis.
Present and defend technical solutions at the organizational level in collaboration with stakeholders across Product, Data, Security, and Site Reliability Engineering.
Participate as a subject-matter expert in reviewing product and technical strategies.
Lead technical research and implementation to create or improve services and systems.
Write clean, effective, maintainable code that meets company standards and help improve company-wide code and review standards.
Take ownership of and improve the Android development lifecycle.
Help engineers grow and increase their productivity.
Create processes for knowledge sharing and collaborative work and increase the reuse of best practices across teams.
Lead task decomposition, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering guidelines.

Desired Qualifications

Real backend development experience.

Delivery Hub is one of inDrive’s business units responsible for building and scaling the delivery product, which is rapidly expanding into new markets and adopting an AI-first approach to engineering processes. We are looking for a Tech Lead who will combine hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities: owning team delivery and execution, defining technical direction and ensuring solution quality, as well as supporting engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, and regular 1:1s under the guidance of an Engineering Manager.

Translate business needs into a technical strategy with measurable outcomes. Ensure alignment with the global company strategy.
Identify and propose architectural and technical improvements across the product and platform, using data and trade-off analysis.
Advocate, present, and defend technical solutions at the organizational level in collaboration with various stakeholders (Product, Data, Security, SRE, etc.).
Participate in reviewing product & technical strategies as a subject-matter expert.
Lead the process of technical research and implementation to create or improve services and systems.
Write clean, effective, and maintainable code based on company standards. Participate in improving company-wide code and review standards.
Take ownership of and improve the Android development lifecycle.
Help engineers grow and increase their productivity.
Create effective processes for knowledge sharing and collaborative work. Increase the re-use of best practices across teams.
Lead task decomposition; mentor engineers and contribute to engineering guidelines.

6+ years of commercial Android development; expert in Kotlin and modern Android APIs.
Hands-on experience with Retrofit/OkHttp, Coroutines/Flow (plus RxJava for legacy), Jetpack (Compose, WorkManager), Google Maps, FCM, and Gradle.
Proven experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI), feature flags, and large-scale A/B experimentation.
Strong grasp of offline storage, concurrency, performance tuning, and network debugging.
Practical expertise in Clean Architecture and mainstream patterns (MVI/MVVM/MVP) applied in production.
Deep understanding of client-server interaction and how to make it efficient. Knowledge of specific features and limitations for various use cases.
Proven record of mentoring and technical leadership, shaping processes, and raising engineering quality across teams.
Strong grasp of backend-service principles, API design, networking, concurrency, and performance optimization.
Experience setting up telemetry, dashboards, and automated alerts for production systems; risk assessment and mitigation.
Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and influence; able to drive alignment across multiple teams.
AI-first mindset and readiness to adopt AI tools in engineering processes.
Real backend development experience is a strong plus.

About the Company

inDrive

Global ride-hailing platform with fare negotiation

inDrive operates a global mobility and urban services platform that connects passengers with independent drivers through a fare-negotiation system. Riders propose a trip price, and nearby drivers can accept, decline, or counteroffer, creating a peer-to-peer ride-hailing model. The service has expanded to intercity rides, delivery and cargo, groceries, advertising, and driver-focused fintech within its app. Unlike typical ride-hailing apps that use fixed fares, inDrive enables price negotiation and direct driver-rider interaction, and it pursues growth through a venture arm that funds ride-hailing-adjacent startups in emerging markets. This broader strategy aims to build a super-app for urban and gig-economy needs, with the goal of offering a wide range of mobility and urban services in 48 countries.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $532M
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founded: 2012

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