Senior Android Engineer

Chroma Recruitment; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Chroma Recruitment is seeking a Senior Android Engineer on a hands-on delivery contract in Manchester. The role is Kotlin-first, Jetpack Compose-only, with an established in-house team, and focuses on shipping a new customer-facing proposition quickly.

You will work closely with product and design to deliver iterative changes, continuing to improve the app’s architecture and test coverage. A strong emphasis on quality and pragmatic delivery is required.

Qualifications

• Strong Android development experience at Senior level.
• Excellent Kotlin knowledge.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and multi-module architecture.
• Experience with testing (JUnit, MockK, Espresso or similar).
• Experience integrating with backend APIs (Retrofit/OkHttp).

Responsibilities

• Design and build Android experiences for a major new customer proposition.
• Evolve reusable UI components and design system.
• Improve automated tests and test suite quality.
• Address technical debt and improve maintainability.
• Contribute to architecture and modern Android practices.
• Integrate app with backend APIs and services.
• Collaborate with product, design, QA.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Architecture

Testing

Retrofit/OkHttp

Performance

Independent work

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Firebase

Datadog

Job description

Senior Android Engineer (Contractor)

Location: Manchester city centre, 2 days/week onsite + remote 3 days/week

Contract: Initial 3-4 month contract (strong likelihood of extension)

Rate: £(Apply online only) (Outside IR35)

Start Date: Early October

Overview

Are you looking to make a genuine, visible impact in a short window rather than settle into a long slow ramp-up? This role offers exactly that. We're looking for an experienced Senior Android Engineer to join the Digital Engineering team of a well-known UK consumer brand, on a hands-on delivery contract supporting a significant new customer-facing proposition. The Android app is a modern, Kotlin-first, Jetpack Compose-only application built on multi-module clean architecture, with an established in-house permanent engineering team already in place. This is a genuine delivery role for someone who can get up to speed fast, ship high-quality software without unnecessary ceremony, and leave the codebase in a better state than they found it — not a role for someone looking to ease in slowly.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build Android experiences to support a significant new customer-facing proposition.
• Help establish and evolve a dedicated design system of reusable UI components and patterns.
• Review and improve the automated test suite — remove brittle or low-value tests, raise confidence in releases.
• Identify and address technical debt, improving maintainability and simplifying the application where appropriate.
• Contribute to architecture, coding standards, performance and modern Android engineering practices.
• Integrate the app with backend APIs and services.
• Work closely with product, design and QA colleagues to deliver changes safely and iteratively.

Requirements

• Strong commercial Android development experience, ideally at Senior Engineer level or above.
• Excellent Kotlin knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of modern Android development practices and architecture, including multi-module clean architecture.
• Experience building modern Android user interfaces, ideally using Jetpack Compose.
• Experience creating or contributing to reusable component libraries or design systems.
• Strong experience with automated testing, including improving and maintaining existing test suites (JUnit, MockK, Espresso, Compose UI Testing or equivalent).
• Experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and services (Retrofit/OkHttp or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of maintainability, performance and application quality.
• Comfortable working within an existing codebase and making pragmatic, incremental improvements.
• Able to work independently while collaborating closely with an established engineering team.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

Desirable

• Experience delivering complex customer-facing propositions on a consumer app with a significant production user base.
• Experience with high-volume transactional or membership-based mobile experiences.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated Android release pipelines (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Experience with mobile observability, crash monitoring and performance optimisation (Firebase, Datadog or equivalent).
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks (Koin, Hilt or equivalent) and Kotlin Coroutines.

Why Join?

• Genuine, hands‑on delivery ownership — not a ticket‑taking role.
• A tangible, visible contribution to a major new customer proposition within a short engagement.
• Work within a modern, Compose‑only, multi‑module codebase with strong existing engineering conventions.
• Close collaboration with an established, high‑calibre permanent engineering team.
• Strong likelihood of extension beyond the initial term for the right candidate.