Senior Android Engineer

About the Role :

As a Senior Android Engineer, you will work end-to-end on user-facing features from translating designs into production code to optimising performance across a wide range of devices and screen sizes. You will help shape the Android side of the platform, contribute to architectural decisions, and coordinate Android engineers across regions.

Your Responsibilities :

- Develop new user-facing features for Android using Kotlin and Java

- Build reusable components and libraries for future use across the platform

- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality production code

- Optimise components for performance across mobiles, tablets, and connected TVs

- Analyse and simplify complex requirements to ensure efficient implementation; flag potential technical challenges to stakeholders early

- Coordinate the work of Android engineers across regions and contribute to engineering standards and best practice

Requirements :

You produce work that others can build on. You take ownership of features from design to production, and you write code that holds up under real-world device and performance variability. You are credible on architectural decisions because you have made them before and seen them play out.

Required Skills :

- 5+ years' relevant engineering experience, including a minimum of 2 years at Senior Android Engineer level

- Deep proficiency in Kotlin, with working command of Java

- Familiarity with Jetpack Compose

- Thorough understanding of the Android SDK and system framework APIs

- Experience with reactive programming using RxJava and its core principles

- Demonstrated unit-testing practice with JUnit and Mockito

- Solid grasp of mobile architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, delegation, and similar)

- Familiarity with Google Play Services, Play Store account administration, and submission

- Knowledge of mobile debugging and optimisation techniques

- Comfortable with Git, build automation, and modern CI/CD practice

- Fluent written and spoken English

- Experience working with a global team or employer

Valued :

- Experience with video playback in mobile or web applications; familiarity with video production, audio/video encoding, and transmuxing

- Experience creating frameworks or libraries embedded in other apps

- Basic knowledge of iOS or web programming platforms useful for cross-platform context

- Knowledge of, or interest in, cricket useful for editorial judgement on what the audience value

Skills

Android, Java, Kotlin, Mobile App Designing, MVC, MVVM, Mobile App Architecture