Joseph Banks

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VP of Engineering at Mosaic Labs | ex-Microsoft

Mosaic Labs
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
Queen's University
English
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Overview

I lead mobile apps at Mosaic Labs in Toronto. Moved 93% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Wrote the Gradle service that now handles 25 million requests a day.

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Skills
Jetpack ComposeGradleKotlinCoroutinesMVVMAndroid performance
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

9 frontend engineer roles open on the Android team in Toronto

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$146k-$204k
Team
Android, 13 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Jetpack Compose Production experience with Kotlin Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp C$122k-C$190k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ONjetpack composegradlemvvm
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jan 2025 - Present
    Mosaic Labs · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Led the migration of 48 services to MVVM.
    • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
    Microsoft · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2021 - May 2023
    EY · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the Android performance service that now handles 8 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
    Lululemon · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the Android team from 6 to 26 engineers.
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
    Microsoft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the Android team from 6 to 34 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 31 services to Jetpack Compose.

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Education

  1. Queen's University
    BCom, Electrical Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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