Mid-Level Android Engineer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Broadcasting Corporation is seeking an Android Engineer to join the Digital Product team, building Android apps used by audiences across Australia. You will develop features and reusable components, maintain secure and high-performing experiences, and collaborate closely with senior engineers and product teams.

You’ll work with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern Android frameworks, contributing to automated testing, CI/CD, release processes, and production monitoring while

Qualifications

• Significant Android development experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience building scalable, secure, accessible mobile apps across devices.
• Proficiency with automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
• Strong communication and collaboration, with technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and reusable components across ABC Android apps with the product team.
• Deliver solutions aligned with the technical roadmap, focusing on performance and accessibility.
• Collaborate on planning and delivery of major product features; own work area.
• Identify and resolve production issues; contribute to improvements across ABC mobile apps.
• Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD, release processes and documentation.
• Keep abreast of Android best practices and emerging tools for product improvements.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD

Testing

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Tertiary qualifications

Tools

Automated testing frameworks

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About the ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories. With about 4,500 employees from diverse backgrounds across more than 60 locations in Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ABC's Digital Product team and help build Android applications used by audiences across Australia.

As an Android Engineer, you'll contribute to the development, maintenance and support of the ABC's mobile applications, working closely with senior engineers, technical leads and the broader product team. You'll develop new features and reusable components, solve production issues and help deliver secure, accessible and high-performing Android experiences.

You'll work with modern Android technologies and established engineering practices while continuing to build your technical capability across large-scale, public-facing digital products.

• Develop features and reusable components across the ABC's Android applications, working closely with senior engineers and the broader product team.
• Deliver technical solutions aligned with the team's long-term technical roadmap, with a focus on performance, security, accessibility and maintainability.
• Collaborate on the planning and delivery of major product features, taking ownership of work within your area of responsibility.
• Identify, investigate and resolve production issues while contributing to continuous improvements across ABC mobile applications.
• Contribute to automated testing, CI/CD, release processes, production monitoring and high-quality technical documentation.
• Stay across Android development best practice and emerging tools and frameworks, identifying opportunities to improve products and development practices.

What You'll Bring

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent significant skills, knowledge and experience.
• Significant experience building scalable, secure, accessible and high-performing applications across mobile platforms and devices.
• Advanced Android development skills, ideally demonstrated through public-facing applications developed in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience assessing and working with modern Android frameworks, development tools and technologies.
• Experience with automated testing, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing, with a strong focus on building quality into the development process.
• Experience with mobile release processes, including CI/CD, automation pipelines, feature flags and production monitoring.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated technical ownership and the ability to deliver outcomes effectively.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise work and communicate progress and challenges clearly.

What's In It For You?

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC's digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia's most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience-facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on ABC iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app, the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.

You'll have the opportunity to contribute to major ABC mobile products while developing technology used at significant audience scale.

You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: ABC Digital Product

In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

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