Senior Android Engineer

Harvey Nash; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to shape the technical direction of a high-performing mobile team. You will be hands-on with architecture, feature delivery and engineering best practices, while mentoring others and raising the bar across the mobile function.

Joining Product, Design and Engineering, you will influence from discovery through to delivery, ensuring high-quality solutions that truly meet customer needs and scale for the business.

Qualifications

• Experience building Android apps in a commercial environment.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture and SOLID principles.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions.
• Hands-on approach with leadership and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Building and delivering new Android features end-to-end
• Driving architectural decisions and technical direction
• Collaborating with Product and Design teams throughout the development lifecycle
• Mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers
• Championing engineering excellence, quality and continuous improvement
• Leading technical discussions, solution design and workshops
• Helping define and track engineering and quality metrics
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and secure
• Kotlin

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

MVVM

Job description

Want to build an Android app at scale whilst helping shape the technical direction of a high-performing mobile team?

We're looking for a Senior Android Engineer to play a key role in the development of a market-leading mobile platform. You'll be hands-on with architecture, feature delivery and engineering best practices, whilst mentoring others and helping raise the bar across the wider mobile function.

Working closely with Product, Design and Engineering, you'll be involved from discovery through to delivery, ensuring high-quality solutions that provide genuine value to customers.

What you'll be doing

• Building and delivering new Android features end-to-end
• Driving architectural decisions and technical direction
• Collaborating with Product and Design teams throughout the development lifecycle
• Mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers
• Championing engineering excellence, quality and continuous improvement
• Leading technical discussions, solution design and workshops
• Helping define and track engineering and quality metrics
• Ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable and secure
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• MVVM

What we're looking for

You'll have strong commercial experience building Android applications and a passion for creating clean, scalable, well-tested software. We're looking for someone who enjoys technical leadership, can influence engineering decisions, and is comfortable mentoring others whilst remaining hands-on.

Experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose is essential, alongside a strong understanding of modern software architecture, SOLID principles and agile delivery practices.

You'll be joining a collaborative engineering environment where quality matters, ideas are valued, and engineers are given the opportunity to influence how products are built. This role offers plenty of scope to contribute to technical strategy whilst continuing to develop your own expertise as a senior individual contributor.