Senior Android Engineer - Remote-First, Kotlin & CI/CD

The Economist; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work From Anywhere, up to 25 days/year

Generous leave (annual and parental)

Free Economist content access

Job summary

The Economist is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Android, to help build and improve our mobile applications. You will contribute to delivering reliable, high-quality features while growing your expertise in native Android development.

You will work in a collaborative, remote-first environment alongside experienced engineers, contributing to both new features and ongoing improvements to the app. We value curiosity, collaboration, and a strong focus on code quality, performance, and user

Qualifications

• Experience in Android development.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and familiarity with Android frameworks.
• Experience building and shipping mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Android applications using Kotlin and modern frameworks.
• Build user interfaces and features in collaboration with Product and Design.
• Contribute to application architecture and code quality within the team.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Debug issues and help improve application performance and stability.
• Participate in code reviews and team engineering practices.
• Work with backend services and APIs to deliver end-to-end functionality.
• Support testing, release, and CI/CD processes.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

REST APIs

CI/CD

Code reviews

Job description

The Economist is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Android, to help build and improve our mobile applications. You will contribute to delivering reliable, high-quality features while growing your expertise in native Android development.

You will work in a collaborative, remote-first environment alongside experienced engineers, contributing to both new features and ongoing improvements to the app. We value curiosity, collaboration, and a strong focus on code quality, performance, and user