Android Software Engineer

NatWest Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Android Software Engineer to drive innovative solutions. This role requires expertise in Android native app development and Kotlin, and involves working within teams to produce high-quality software. The engineer will be responsible for the full lifecycle of software, enhancing and maintaining systems effectively within a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Background in software engineering with strong skills in Android development.
• Experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Agile methodologies.
• Expertise in coding patterns like MVVM, Clean Architecture, and unit testing.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain innovative, customer-centric, high-performance secure solutions.
• Produce complex software rapidly, working across the full lifecycle.
• Collaborate to optimize software engineering capabilities and implement working code.

Skills

Android native app development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

RESTful web services

Agile methodologies

Tools

Android SDK

Android Studio

Junit

OKHttp

Retrofit

Dagger

Hilt

Coroutines

Job description

Join us as a Android Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that're often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a background in software engineering, with strong Android native app development using tools such as Android SDK, Junit, Android Studio and various Android libraries such as OKHttp, Retrofit, Dagger, Hilt and Couroutines.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of working with Kotlin programming language
• Strong experience in Jetpack Compose
• Proficiency of coding patterns including MVVM, Clean Architecture, Repository and Builder
• A background in unit testing
• Expert level knowledge with RESTful web services development
• Experience working with Agile methodologies

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

09/07/2025 Ways of Working:Hybrid