Android Engineer (12‑month contract, remote)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Android Engineer to join our high‑traffic consumer mobile team. The role is fully remote and focuses on delivering a polished, performant Android application used by millions across the region.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and ship features for a large‑scale Android app, including search, discovery and user‑engagement flows.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers and QA to turn requirements into well‑architected solutions.
• Own features end‑to‑end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, release, monitoring and iteration.
• Contribute to the evolution of app architecture, shared components, state management and navigation patterns.
• Write and maintain unit and UI tests, review pull requests and uphold engineering best practices.
• Investigate and resolve crashes, ANRs and performance issues using Android tooling.
• Improve developer experience through CI/CD pipeline enhancements, build performance and release processes.

Required profile

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin with idiomatic use of language features.
• Solid experience with Coroutines and Flow for asynchronous and reactive programming.
• Production experience building UIs with Jetpack Compose.
• Deep understanding of core Android concepts such as lifecycle, configuration changes, background work, permissions and modern Jetpack libraries.

Required skills

• Kotlin
• Coroutines
• Flow
• Jetpack Compose
• Android lifecycle & configuration handling
• Background work & permissions
• Jetpack libraries (ViewModel, Room, WorkManager, DataStore)
• Unit testing (JUnit, MockK, Mockito)
• UI testing (Compose UI testing, Espresso)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Gradle (Kotlin DSL, version catalogs)
• Git (branching, reviews, clean commits)
• Maps / location‑based features (nice‑to‑have)
• Image‑heavy UI performance optimisation (nice‑to‑have)
• A/B testing, feature flags, data‑driven experimentation (nice‑to‑have)
• Multi‑module Android project architecture (nice‑to‑have)