Senior Android Engineer — Build People-Focused, Impactful Apps

Admiral Group; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share scheme

33 days holiday

Hybrid working

Learning and development

People first culture

Job summary

Veygo is seeking an Android Engineer to build features from implementation through release, collaborating with experienced engineers to create high-quality mobile products for young drivers. You’ll work on Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, modern Android architecture, and API integration while growing your skills.

You’ll participate in automated testing, code reviews and CI/CD processes, with a focus on reliability and customer experience.

Qualifications

• Practical experience developing and releasing Android applications.
• Working proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Familiarity with modern Android architecture, including ViewModels, coroutines and Flow.
• Experience integrating APIs and handling data within mobile applications.
• Experience writing automated tests, debugging issues and using Git in a collaborative development environment.
• An understanding of CI/CD and mobile release processes.
• Good problem-solving skills and an interest in understanding how technical choices affect customers.
• Clear communication skills, with the confidence to ask questions, share ideas and work across disciplines.
• The ability to take ownership of agreed work, recognise when you need support and respond constructively to feedback.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or similar, and a willingness to learn how to use them effectively.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and established architecture patterns.
• Work on API integration, data handling, networking and caching, with support on more complex offline and sync requirements.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend Engineering and QA to understand customer needs and deliver well-tested features.
• Write clean, maintainable code and automated tests, taking part in code reviews and acting on feedback.
• Investigate bugs, crashes and performance issues, helping improve app reliability and customer experience.
• Contribute to releases and improvements to tooling, documentation and development practices.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long term health condition who opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android Architecture

API Integration

Automated Tests

Git

CI/CD

Problem Solving

Communication

Ownership

AI Tools Curiosity

Tools

CircleCI

Firebase App Distribution

Google Play

Job description

Veygo is seeking an Android Engineer to build features from implementation through release, collaborating with experienced engineers to create high-quality mobile products for young drivers. You’ll work on Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, modern Android architecture, and API integration while growing your skills.

You’ll participate in automated testing, code reviews and CI/CD processes, with a focus on reliability and customer experience.