Senior Software Engineer, Mobile (Android)

Description

Forage’s mission is to expand financial access for low-income families.

According to recent studies, the cost of groceries is the number-one financial stressor in America—even more stressful than housing, healthcare, and childcare. At Forage, we believe that it doesn’t have to be that way, and our mission is to help people put food on the table.

Our technology makes it easy for retailers like Albertsons and Dollar General to accept benefits like SNAP and WIC. Our free consumer app helps cost-conscious shoppers check their EBT balances, find savings, and earn rewards on everyday purchases. And we’re just getting started: we’re building new products every day that will help low-income families save on groceries and improve their financial health.

Our impact so far:

Forage’s payments technology is used at over 100,000+ stores in all 50 states

We’ve helped deliver tens of millions of grocery orders to low-income families

Over the last year, we’ve grown payments volume by more than 13x

Since its launch in 2025, the Forage App has been downloaded more than 100,000 times

We recently raised our $40M Series B, bringing our total funding to over $75M

Watch our story and see why we do what we do (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBj55AWz74w).

What we are looking for:

We seek an experienced Mobile Engineer with a strong background in building comprehensive user solutions and frontend infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of mobile development experience, ideally in Kotlin Multiplatform. We will prioritize candidates who have built a KMP app from scratch or who have meaningfully contributed to a production app.

You will lead large-scale projects for our app for EBT shoppers, which allows them to check their SNAP balance, collect rewards and more. You will ship critical projects and establish best practices for frontend development for the team. Your role will include improving frontend infrastructure and tooling, balancing business priorities with user experience and technical sustainability, and influencing our technical vision.

Collaboration is key; you will partner closely with product managers to prioritize a long product feature list.

Responsibilities

• Lead large multi-engineer projects for the Forage EBT Shopper app.
• Balance business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability in trade offs when balancing new feature requests and necessary engineering improvements
• Influence frontend development at Forage by sharing technical vision and providing guidance
• Make teammates at Forage more effective through better frontend infrastructure and tooling
• Mentor teammates and others around frontend best practices
• Our Offer:
• This role is Hybrid in New York. We define hybrid as 2-3 days in office.
• Your base salary would fall within the bands below.
• Competitive Compensation:
• Senior Mobile Engineer: $185k-$200k base
• Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
• Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
• 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
• Enjoy regular team lunches at our New York office, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
• A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
• A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at our headquarters in San Francisco, California. Individual pay is determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• We aim to review every application within 4 business days of submission and provide feedback on each of your interviews within 2 business days of completion. If you don't hear from us, please reach out to your recruiter or careers[at]joinforage[dot]com directly to get an update on your candidacy.
• Integrity & Fairness: To maintain a fair and equitable hiring process for all candidates, we require that interviews and exercises be completed without the use of AI-powered tools. We assess candidates based on their direct experience, judgment, and communication.
• Please note: Forage is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants must have work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Requirements

• 3+ years of mobile engineering experience building end-to-end user solutions
• Experience in Kotlin Multiplatform, especially having built an app from scratch
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives within your team, mentoring engineers through design and delivery, contributing meaningfully to roadmap discussions, and independently driving complex projects from design through execution
• Experience: 5+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only