Senior Android Engineer - Kotlin, Compose & Mentorship

LHV Bank; Greater London, Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health plan (Vitality)

Life assurance

Pension/insurance

Job summary

LHV Bank is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to lead technical work on the app and mentor engineers. You will own meaningful feature areas end to end, enhance code quality and architecture, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to ship secure, fast experiences.

There is also an option to contribute to Kotlin BFF for broader stack exposure. You’ll join a cross-functional team focusing on a Kotlin-first Android stack, with emphasis on modular architectures, testing, and

Qualifications

• Significant production Android experience with strong Kotlin skills.
• Solid experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative UI patterns.
• Comfort with coroutines/Flow for asynchronous and reactive code.
• Experience with a DI framework and modular app architecture (MVVM/MVI).
• Experience connecting Android apps to backend services via REST/networking libraries (Ktor, Retrofit).
• A track record of writing tested, maintainable code and constructive code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain features across the Android app from UI in Compose to networking and data layers.
• Drive architectural decisions for owned modules and write/review ADRs for significant changes.
• Improve app performance, stability, and startup/runtime metrics with observability practices.
• Review code and mentor engineers on architecture, testing, and Compose practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD, build tooling, and test strategy (unit, screenshot, instrumented).
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers from spec to release.
• Optionally contribute to Kotlin backend-for-frontend (BFF) for broader stack exposure.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines/Flow

MVVM/MVI

REST APIs

Code review

Tools

Ktor

Retrofit

Job description

LHV Bank is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to lead technical work on the app and mentor engineers. You will own meaningful feature areas end to end, enhance code quality and architecture, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to ship secure, fast experiences.

There is also an option to contribute to Kotlin BFF for broader stack exposure. You’ll join a cross-functional team focusing on a Kotlin-first Android stack, with emphasis on modular architectures, testing, and