Android Developer

Role Title: Android Engineer

Location: Burgess Hill, London (Hybrid – minimum 3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: 6-12 months

Experience Required: 5+ years

Work Mode: Hybrid

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled Android Engineer to work on high-scale mobile applications used by tens of millions of cardholders globally. This role is ideal for someone passionate about clean code, performance optimization, and delivering exceptional user experiences.

You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment, partnering with designers, product owners, QA, and engineers within a Fortune 100 organization. The role involves building, enhancing, and maintaining Android features while contributing ideas and solving complex technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance Android applications using modern frameworks and best practices
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, QA, Backend)
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code
• Diagnose, debug, and resolve performance and functional issues
• Work with legacy codebases and modernize where required
• Implement unit and integration tests
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Contribute to technical discussions and solution design for open-ended problems

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Android application development
• Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow
• Jetpack Compose
• Asynchronous programming patterns
• REST API integration
• Build tools and CI/CD pipelines (Gradle, GitHub Actions, Circle CI)
• Unit & integration testing (Espresso, JUnit)
• Debugging, performance analysis, and optimization

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• MVI Architecture
• OkHttp
• Dagger
• RxJava
• RAML API documentation
• WireMock
• Test fakes and mocking frameworks
• Experience working with distributed/global teams
• Exposure to open-source contributions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• OR equivalent hands-on industry experience