Android Malware Reverse Engineer

Reversec; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Reversec in the United Kingdom is seeking Android reverse engineers and malware analysts to join a specialist team supporting one of the world's largest technology platforms.

The role covers malware reverse engineering, detection engineering, and research tooling, with opportunities to contribute to open-source projects and to mentor colleagues. You will work on challenging investigations and stay current with evolving Android threats.

Qualifications

• Experience in Android malware analysis and mobile security testing.
• Ability to analyze obfuscated code and native libraries.
• Experience with static and dynamic analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed static and dynamic analysis of Android applications and SDKs.
• Analyse heavily obfuscated Java/Kotlin applications, native code, and framework apps (e.g., Flutter, .NET MAUI, ReactNative).
• Investigate packers, in-memory loading techniques, encrypted payloads and anti-analysis mechanisms.
• Determine application behaviour and identify potentially harmful functionality.
• Conduct complex investigations into suspicious applications and malware campaigns.
• Support escalations and urgent high-priority investigations.
• Analyse internal and external malware leads.
• Identify indicators, behaviours, attack techniques and attacker objectives.

Skills

OOP programming

Android internals

Analytical mindset

English communication

Tools

Frida

LSPosed

Python

Smali/DEX analysis

Job description

Reversec in the United Kingdom is seeking Android reverse engineers and malware analysts to join a specialist team supporting one of the world's largest technology platforms.

The role covers malware reverse engineering, detection engineering, and research tooling, with opportunities to contribute to open-source projects and to mentor colleagues. You will work on challenging investigations and stay current with evolving Android threats.