Senior Android Developer – Kotlin / Jetpack Compose (Specialist I - Software Engineering)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 4, 2026. UST scores B on the Alion truth index.
Senior Android Developer - Kotlin / Jetpack Compose
Location: Leicester, UK | Hybrid
Start: ASAP
Contract: Fixed-Term Employment Contract until 31 January 2027, with potential extension
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Android Developer to join our eCommerce technology team working on a newly rebuilt, customer-facing Android application, onsite with one of our prestigious Clients based in Leicester.
The app has been completely re-engineered using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, creating a modern, accessible and seamless mobile experience. You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical foundations, delivering new functionality and ensuring the platform remains performant, scalable and maintainable.
This is a hands-on development role with the opportunity to provide technical leadership and mentoring within the wider Android team.
What You’ll Be Doing:
What We’re Looking For:
- You’ll bring strong hands-on Android engineering experience, ideally including:
- Strong commercial development experience with Kotlin
- Hands-on expertise with Jetpack Compose
- Strong understanding of the Android ecosystem and application architecture
- Experience developing modern, customer-facing mobile applications
- Strong knowledge of adaptive/responsive UI development across mobile and tablet devices
- Experience with unit testing and UI automation testing
- Strong understanding of application performance optimisation and production support
- Experience with Git, CI/CD and Azure DevOps
- Strong problem-solving and solutioning skills
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum development teams
- Confidence working with Product, UX and business stakeholders
- Ability to conduct code reviews, influence engineering standards and mentor other developers
Core Technology
Kotlin | Jetpack Compose | Android | Azure DevOps | Git | CI/CD | Unit Testing | UI Testing | Agile/Scrum | Mobile App Development | Performance Tuning
Why Join UST?
This is an opportunity to work on a modern Android platform rather than a legacy application, with the ability to influence technical direction and engineering best practice while delivering a high-profile customer-facing product.
ASAP start | Leicester hybrid | Fixed term to 31 January 2027 | Potential extension
Hurry & apply!
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