Senior Android Engineer – Kotlin & Jetpack (Manchester)

Contracts IT Recruitment Consulting Ltd; Burnley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Contracts IT Recruitment Consulting Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Android Developer for a 6-month contract in Manchester, UK, with an urgent start. You will join a global technology client and help build and maintain modern Android features at scale, contributing across the full development lifecycle.

You will write clean Kotlin, work with backend engineers, designers, QA, and product teams, fix production issues, and participate in code reviews to improve performance and stability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience.
• Strong Kotlin skills.
• Proficient with Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with Android Architecture Components.
• Experience in writing unit and UI tests.
• Experience consuming REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to debug production apps.
• Strong ownership mindset and capable of working in existing codebases.

Responsibilities

• Build features across the full development life cycle.
• Write clean, maintainable Kotlin code.
• Work with Back End engineers, designers, QA, and product teams.
• Fix production issues and improve performance and stability.
• Take part in code reviews and technical discussions.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines & Flow

Architecture Components

Unit testing

UI testing

REST APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD

Debugging

Ownership mindset

Job description

Contracts IT Recruitment Consulting Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Android Developer for a 6-month contract in Manchester, UK, with an urgent start. You will join a global technology client and help build and maintain modern Android features at scale, contributing across the full development lifecycle.

You will write clean Kotlin, work with backend engineers, designers, QA, and product teams, fix production issues, and participate in code reviews to improve performance and stability.