Android Engineer

Android Engineer (Contract – 6 Months+, Potential to Convert)

Location: Burgess Hill

Work Mode: Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week in the office)

Contract Duration: 6 months+ (strong potential for permanent hire by the end client)

⚠️ Candidates must be comfortable with a contract role that may convert to a permanent position after 6 months.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer (5+ years experience) to help build and evolve mobile applications used by tens of millions of cardholders worldwide.

You’ll be part of a small, fast-moving product team (designers, product owners, QA, and engineers) within the stability of a Fortune 100 organization. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, writing elegant Kotlin code, and obsessing over user experience and clean architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-quality Android applications

Rapidly iterate on features in a collaborative, agile environment

Write, refactor, and delete code to keep the codebase clean and maintainable

Identify, debug, and fix performance and stability issues

Work with modern CI/CD pipelines and development workflows

Collaborate with globally distributed teams

Integrate Android apps with bespoke backend services

Contribute to testing strategies (unit, integration, UI tests)

Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of professional Android development experience

Strong proficiency in Kotlin

Experience with Coroutines, Flow, and asynchronous programming

Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose

Knowledge of MVI architecture

Experience with REST APIs and networking (OkHttp)

Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Gradle, GitHub Actions, Circle CI)

Strong debugging, performance analysis, and optimization skills

Experience working with legacy codebases

Unit, integration, and UI testing experience (Espresso, JUnit)

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

Nice to Have / Technologies You May Encounter

Dagger / Dependency Injection

RxJava

WireMock, Test Fakes

RAML API documentation

Open-source contributions

Experience working in large, distributed engineering teams