Senior Android Dev Lead

Why We Exist

When it comes to Americans and personal finances, their relationship with money has been defined by high stress, low health, and limited access to advice.

The American Psychology Association has consistently ranked “money” as one of the top stress factors in our lives (and the coronavirus has only increased the intensity of that stress). And “About two-thirds are considered Financially Coping or Financially Vulnerable, meaning they struggle to spend, save, borrow, or plan in ways that allow them to be resilient and seize opportunities.” (Financial Health Network, 2021 US Trends Report).

Despite this state of affairs, consumers without meaningful savings have historically had limited access to financial advice because advisors could only afford to work with the “already wealthy”.  No savings, no luck.  

But over the past 5-10 years, the financial advice consumer has changed dramatically - their values, demand, availability, and awareness.  And the evolution of the consumer has forced advisors to adapt - to make their services more accessible through new business models and more holistic in their advice (beyond just investments).

Elements was built at the crossroads of these trends.  We help increase access to advice, reduce financial stress, improve financial health, and empower more people to live their present lives to the fullest.

The Solution

Elements is building a next-generation system designed to help advisors and consumers change the face of financial health in America.  Our patented approach gives people a standard way to measure, benchmark, and embrace the healthy habits of holistic financial health.

When paired with a financial advisor, Elements becomes a powerful behavioral coaching tool. It gives advisors a system to dramatically increase the speed and simplicity of delivering advice and drive client progress throughout the year. This system has been built, tested, and implemented for 10 years to 400 clients inside an RIA, DentistAdvisors.com, which has received regular praise from industry experts.

The Tech

We offer a cutting-edge fintech platform that was built to drive client engagement, enabling financial advisors to provide a more valuable experience for their generation XYZ clients.

Unlike traditional financial planning software, our product is built for ongoing monitoring, not episodic planning. We've paired a patented scorecard methodology that measures clients’ real-time financial health with a beautifully designed native mobile app, purpose-built for the end client.

Our advisor dashboard is being built to proactively drive and manage execution within the client relationship with “work management” features, as well as proprietary analytics to help guide the quality of advice delivered.

This innovative approach proactively drives ongoing client engagement in their own financial health journey and is ripe for application in adjacent markets.

The Opportunity

The Global Financial Planning software market is a multi-billion dollar opportunity expected to grow at 14.5% annually. Adjacent markets are equally as large with similar growth opportunities and lots of headroom for innovative applications.  

Ultimately, financial advice software markets are ripe for disruption with stagnant incumbents and a new confluence of industry trends that align best with the system we’ve built. We are well-positioned to achieve product-market fit and go-to-market fit over the next 12-18 months.

Backing & Stage

We’re an early-stage B2B SaaS platform with a set of early SMB customers.  We are seeing traction in new ARR, as well as adoption and ACV expansion within our initial customer base.

We have strong institutional and angel backing led by: Kickstart Seed Fund (SLC, Utah), Grand Ventures, Saas Ventures, and Forward VC. Angel investors on our cap table include Tyler Hogge (Wealthfront, Divvy), Jeremy Andrus (Traeger), Mike Levinthal (Angel Investor), Aaron Derose (Angel Investor), Karl Sun (Lucid), and Dave Grow (Lucid).

The Team

Our dev team is a group of experienced and engaged software engineers focused on delivering high-quality solutions in an efficient manner. In support of this we believe that everyone owns the product’s quality, meaning that all of us focus on writing automated tests and periodically performing manual QA. We also have a fun side and make sure to get the whole team together quarterly to better get to know each other and try new activities.

Soft Skills

• Excels in a remote work environment (we are 100% remote)
• 5 years professional experience
• Ability to work in an iterative, agile process.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work alone and as part of a dynamic team
• Enjoys learning; willing to say, “I don’t know, let’s find out…”
• Displays a tendency to take the time to mentor others
• Makes time to meticulously review code for readability, testability and architectural design
• Able to clearly communicate details to others, especially complex technical ideas
• Does not shy away from making estimates and is always trying to get better at it

Hard Skills

• Deep experience with concurrency on the Android platform: Threads, Services, Job/Work Manager, or Kotlin Coroutines
• Excellent experience with Android platform architecture, e.g. Where do you put/separate UI code, business logic, etc.
  Understanding and experience with Inversion of Control (IoC), e.g. Dagger 2 or Hilt or Koin
• Extensive experience with networking on Android
• Advanced skill with persistence on Android
• Strong experience with managing app navigation 

Benefits

We are serious about hiring and retaining top talent, and we aren’t afraid to pay for it. You can expect fair compensation. 

• Opportunity to start at the ground floor of a rapidly growing, funded start-up
• Group health insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan (up to 4% company match)
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off schedule
• Paid parental leave
• Gym membership
• Continuing education reimbursement
• Complimentary investment management service

Are you interested? We’d love to talk.