Senior Android Engineer

Overview

As Senior Android Developer in the Apps Experience team, you will lead development of The Guardian’s Android app, delivering major new features and maintaining existing functionality. You will work primarily in Kotlin, collaborating closely with iOS, backend, web engineers, designers, and editors to ship a fast, stable experience. You’ll mentor peers, influence product and technical decisions, and push for innovation through hack days and day-to-day delivery. This role offers impact at scale within a mission-driven, inclusive media organisation.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days annual leave
• pension with employer contributions (5% employee, 8-12% employer)
• 2 volunteering days annually
• private healthcare
• life cover
• cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Build and test major new features for the Android app
• Improve and maintain existing app functionality
• Take on a leadership role in projects and guide other developers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (iOS, server, web, design, product, editorial)
• Contribute to product and technical decision making
• Promote a culture of testing and quality
• Participate in innovative initiatives and hack days

Key requirements

• Expertise in Android development with strong Kotlin skills (90% Kotlin, some Java)
• Experience with modern Android tools: Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, MVVM, Webviews, modular architectures
• Proficiency in JVM unit testing, instrumented testing, and UI regression testing
• Willingness to lead team projects and mentor others
• Familiarity with iOS (Swift/Objective-C) or server-side (Scala/Typescript) useful
• Comfort working with both cutting-edge and legacy code
• Strong collaborative and communication skills
• collaboration
• leadership and mentoring
• problem solving
• Kotlin
• Java
• Jetpack Compose

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