Lead Android Engineer

Job Title: Lead Android Engineer

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

As part of our mobile platform engineering team, you will set the pace for multiple mobile engineering teams and take ownership of the fully native mobile apps that our customers love.

• Kotlin and Java, for writing well‑factored, well‑tested code in both the Android app and backend orchestration services
• Android Toolset, including Android Studio, to leverage the Android platform on a large enterprise scale
• Testing frameworks, using JUnit and Espresso, and advocating for approaches like Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD
• AWS, utilizing cloud opportunities to maximize inner‑sourcing and continuous improvement

• You are passionate about creating products that produce good customer outcomes
• You enjoy leading a team of technologists, alongside product, design and other disciplines
• You want to design new product iterations, thinking strategically about architectural decisions and can communicate to stakeholders
• You act as a technical evangelist, evaluating technical risks while coaching and mentoring more junior engineers
• You appreciate the sensitivity of our customer data and the resiliency, performance and security that demands
• You enjoy automation—including unified deployment pipelines and automated testing—and aspire to ‘automate all but the creative problem solving’
• You want to develop yourself, with access to various support systems (learning, mentorship, conferences, progression)
• You enjoy hybrid working, with Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in our bright offices

• Competitive pension and performance‑based bonus schemes
• 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure, plus the option to buy five additional days
• Access to private medical insurance for health and wellbeing
• Enhanced parental leave and family support
• Up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications and other career development opportunities

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