Android Developer
Build and ship Android features in Kotlin for a consumer platform, improving performance, reliability, and offline capabilities while integrating REST/gRPC APIs and payment flows.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bath, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong commercial experience building production Android apps with Kotlin
- Solid understanding of modern Android development (Jetpack, coroutines/Flow, lifecycle, dependency injection)
- Experience working with APIs, data modelling, and performance considerations
- A testing mindset with a pragmatic approach to quality (unit/instrumentation where appropriate)
- Confidence owning large features and making sound technical decisions
- Firebase experience (especially Firestore / real-time data)
- Payments integrations (e.g. Stripe)
- Experience modernising legacy codebases
- Exposure to event-driven backends
Full description
Remote / Hybrid: Somerset-based client – onsite working a day or two a week is preferred
If you are an Android Engineer looking for a culture-first, mission-driven organisation where your work will have a real-world impact on people’s lives – then this could be the role and company for you.
SR2’s client has a consumer facing platform which interacts with customers via mobile apps. You’ll take ownership of major parts of our clients Kotlin mobile experience across two apps, working in a small, high-trust team where engineers have genuine input into what gets built and how.
This is a build-and-ship role: balancing reliability and performance improvements with fast, iterative feature delivery.
Overview:
- Build high-quality features using Kotlin (Jetpack Compose where suitable, otherwise Views)
- Integrate and collaborate on API/data contracts with REST services as well as real-time gRPC based services
- Implement payment flows where needed (e.g. Stripe)
- Improve legacy areas and raise engineering standards (architecture, testing, CI/CD)
- Enhance performance, reliability, and offline capabilities
- Collaborate closely with product and operations to ship usable releases quickly
Requirements:
- Strong commercial experience building production Android apps with Kotlin
- Solid understanding of modern Android development (Jetpack, coroutines/Flow, lifecycle, dependency injection)
- Experience working with APIs, data modelling, and performance considerations
- A testing mindset with a pragmatic approach to quality (unit/instrumentation where appropriate)
- Confidence owning large features and making sound technical decisions
- Firebase experience (especially Firestore / real-time data)
- Payments integrations (e.g. Stripe)
- Experience modernising legacy codebases
- Exposure to event-driven backends
Interview Process:
- Technical interview
- Final interview with leadership
Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact potential candidates regarding next steps.