Senior AI Applied Software Engineer

Backbase; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Backbase seeks a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer (Android) to anchor our mobile identity and banking SDKs. You will lead AI-native development, architect scalable Android SDKs with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, and own end-to-end mobile capabilities from data security to CI/CD.

You will mentor engineers, enforce best practices, and raise quality with automated tests and performance profiling. Strong Android expertise and AI tooling experience are required.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with native Android.
• Advanced mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and clean architecture.
• Experience building modular Android SDKs used by external teams.
• Active, hands-on production use of AI-driven developer tooling or agentic workflows.
• Strong knowledge of mobile CI/CD automation tools and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• AI-Native Mobile Leadership: drive AI tooling and prompt workflows into the mobile lifecycle.
• Core Mobile & SDK Architecture: design scalable Android SDKs, libraries and modular components.
• Full-Lifecycle Ownership: manage data, security layers, backend integrations, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Quality & Testing Champion: enforce automated testing targets and performance profiling.
• Mentorship & Standard Setting: mentor peers and establish engineering standards across the team.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines

Clean Architecture

MVVM

Modular SDKs

AI tooling

CI/CD automation

Mobile security

Performance profiling

Tools

Bitrise

Jenkins

Gradle scripting

Job description

As a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer (Android), you will serve as a technical anchor for our mobile identity and banking suites—shaping SDK architectures that impact over 100 million users worldwide. You will lead the shift toward AI-native mobile development, combining deep Android architecture expertise with agentic AI tooling to set new productivity and quality benchmarks.

Meet the job

• AI-Native Mobile Leadership: Champion the integration of LLM workflows, prompt engineering, and agentic AI tooling into the mobile engineering life cycle.
• Core Mobile & SDK Architecture: Architect scalable, secure Android SDKs, libraries, and modular mobile components using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines.
• Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Own end-to-end mobile capabilities—from local data persistence and security layers to backend API integrations and CI/CD pipelines.
• Quality & Testing Champion: Maintain an uncompromising focus on quality, enforcing automated test coverage targets (80%+ unit testing) and performance profiling.
• Mentorship & Standard Setting: Mentor mobile developers, advocate best practices in mobile architecture, and establish shared engineering standards across the team.

How about you

• Experience: 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a heavy focus on native Android development.
• Tech Mastery: Advanced mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Clean Architecture/MVVM, and building modular mobile SDKs used by external teams.
• Proven AI Production Experience: Active, hands-on production use of AI-driven developer tooling, agentic workflows, or mobile build automation.
• DevOps & Tooling: Deep understanding of mobile CI/CD automation tools (Bitrise, Jenkins, Gradle scripting) and non-functional requirements (mobile security, performance).
• Leadership Skills: Proven capacity to mentor peers, evaluate complex trade-offs, and guide autonomous squads toward clear technical goals.

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