Android Developer

TRAKD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary £85,000 – £120,000

Share options

Flexible hybrid working from central-L

Private medical insurance

Enhanced pension

Annual learning budget

Latest hardware

Job summary

TRAKD is building a greenfield native Android app in Kotlin, moving away from React Native. As one of the first native Android hires, you will define architecture, standards and tooling from day one, shaping how the app is built for years to come.

Based in London, this hybrid role offers a base salary of £85,000–£120,000, share options, private medical insurance and an annual learning budget, with the latest hardware provided.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Android development with Play Store apps.
• Expert Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with modern Android architecture.
• Experience building apps from scratch or major re-architecture.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the new native Android app in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Define architecture, modularisation, coding standards, and testing approach.
• Plan migration from React Native with feature parity for current users.
• Build core insurance journeys: onboarding, quotes, policies, payments, claims.
• Set up CI/CD, automated tests, and release pipelines on Play Store.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and iOS teams.
• Ensure security, privacy and FCA-compliant standards.
• Mentor engineers and help hire and grow the Android team.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

App architecture

MVVM/MVI

Coroutines & Flow

Dependency injection

Gradle

Testing mindset

Security & privacy

Tools

Retrofit/Ktor

Hilt/Koin

JUnit

Turbine

Compose UI tests

GitHub Actions

Firebase

Job description

Senior Android & Staff Engineer – Insurtech (Greenfield Native Build)

Role snapshot

The opportunity

Our client is a fast-growing insurtech making insurance simpler, fairer and fully digital. Their app is how customers get quotes, manage policies and make claims, so it sits at the heart of the business.

They're moving away from React Native and rebuilding the Android app natively. This is a genuine greenfield project: no legacy codebase, no inherited tech debt, and the chance to set the architecture, standards and tooling from day one. As one of the first native Android hires, you'll shape how the app is built for years to come and help grow the Android team.

What you'll do

• Architect and build the new native Android app from the ground up in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Define the app's architecture, modularisation strategy, coding standards and testing approach
• Plan and deliver the migration from React Native, achieving feature parity and a smooth switchover for existing customers
• Build core insurance journeys: onboarding and KYC, quotes, policy management, payments and claims
• Set up CI/CD, automated testing and release pipelines on the Play Store
• Work closely with Product, Design, Backend and iOS engineers to deliver a consistent cross-platform experience
• Ensure security, privacy and compliance standards suited to a regulated (FCA) environment
• Mentor engineers and help hire and grow the Android team

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of professional Android development, with production apps shipped to the Play Store
• Expert Kotlin, with strong hands-on Jetpack Compose experience
• Proven experience building an app from scratch, or leading a major re-architecture
• Deep knowledge of modern Android architecture (MVVM/MVI, Clean Architecture, multi-module builds)
• Strong with Coroutines and Flow, dependency injection (Hilt/Koin) and Gradle build tooling
• A solid testing mindset: unit, integration and UI tests
• Experience integrating secure REST/GraphQL APIs and handling sensitive customer data
• Comfortable making architecture decisions, documenting them and bringing others along

Nice to have

• Experience migrating from React Native, Flutter or another cross-platform framework to native
• Background in insurtech, fintech or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with KYC, identity verification or payment SDKs (e.g. Stripe, Onfido)
• Kotlin Multiplatform experience for sharing logic with iOS
• Experience building design systems in Compose
• Accessibility expertise and a passion for inclusive design

Language & UI

Kotlin, Jetpack Compose

Async

Coroutines, Flow

DI & networking

Hilt, Retrofit/Ktor

Testing

JUnit, Turbine, Compose UI tests

CI/CD

GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Firebase App Distribution

Observability

Firebase Crashlytics, analytics tooling

Greenfield, so the final stack will be shaped by the team – indicative only, to confirm with the client.

Package and benefits

• Base salary £85,000 – £120,000, depending on experience
• Share options in a high-growth business
• Flexible hybrid working from a central London office
• Private medical insurance and enhanced pension
• Annual learning budget and the latest hardware

Interview process (indicative): intro call with TRAKD → hiring manager chat → technical and architecture session → final stage with Engineering and Product leadership.