Remote Senior Android Engineer - Jetpack Compose Expert

Hedgehog Lab; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

hedgehog lab is delivering a UK bank's Android app, moving to Jetpack Compose. This contract, outside IR35, starts January 2027 and runs for ~6 months with remote-first working.

You will join a consultancy team focused on testing, code reviews, and code quality, building UI in Compose from the ground up, and expanding a modernising codebase while adding regulated banking work to your CV.

Qualifications

• Commercial Android experience in Kotlin, including Coroutines and Flow.
• Jetpack Compose alongside XML layouts and Data Binding; some Java for legacy code.
• MVVM architecture with Hilt and Dagger; focus on tests and security.

Responsibilities

• Build new features and screens in Jetpack Compose.
• Migrate XML/Data Binding screens to Compose.
• Work in Kotlin with some legacy Java in MVVM using Hilt and Dagger.
• Consume REST APIs and maintain third-party SDKs.
• Write unit tests with JUnit and MockK to keep changes safe.
• Debug on emulators and real devices, addressing performance issues.
• Review PRs and participate in sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

XML layouts

Data Binding

Java

MVVM

Hilt

Dagger

Unit testing

Mobile security

Tools

JUnit

MockK

REST APIs

Job description

hedgehog lab is delivering a UK bank's Android app, moving to Jetpack Compose. This contract, outside IR35, starts January 2027 and runs for ~6 months with remote-first working.

You will join a consultancy team focused on testing, code reviews, and code quality, building UI in Compose from the ground up, and expanding a modernising codebase while adding regulated banking work to your CV.