Lead Android Engineer: Jetpack Compose Migration (Remote)

Hedgehog Lab; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience helping public and private sector organisations through digital transformation. We're B Corp and Great Place to Work certified.

You will lead a hedgehog lab delivery team working on our client's customer-facing Android app, guiding the migration to Jetpack Compose and defining architecture, coding standards and testing strategy. This remote-first contract runs for around six months, with on-site attendance expected for key

Qualifications

• Commercial Android experience at a senior or lead level, in Kotlin with Coroutines and Flow.
• Leading the technical direction of an Android app, including architecture decisions
• Mentoring engineers and setting standards for a team
• Jetpack Compose, plus XML layouts, Data Binding and enough Java to work on older code
• MVVM and dependency injection with Hilt and Dagger
• Unit testing with JUnit and MockK, and using tests to make safe changes in large codebases
• Mobile security, particularly protecting sensitive data and securing network calls

Responsibilities

• Leading the team's technical decisions, including architecture and the move from XML and Data Binding to Compose
• Setting coding, testing and code review standards for the team
• Mentoring the Senior engineers
• Working with the client's own engineers on technical approach and priorities
• Building features in Kotlin and Compose within an MVVM architecture using Hilt and Dagger
• Making sure sensitive data and network calls are handled securely
• Leading investigations into defects and performance issues

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

MVVM

Hilt and Dagger

Unit testing

Code reviews

Mentoring

Security practices

Testing strategy

Tools

JUnit

MockK

Espresso

Android Studio

Job description

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience helping public and private sector organisations through digital transformation. We're B Corp and Great Place to Work certified.

You will lead a hedgehog lab delivery team working on our client's customer-facing Android app, guiding the migration to Jetpack Compose and defining architecture, coding standards and testing strategy. This remote-first contract runs for around six months, with on-site attendance expected for key