Senior Android Mobile Engineer

Royal London Group; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal London Group in Alderley Park is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to help grow and evolve our mobile capability, delivering high-quality native Android experiences and new features for customers.

You will work with the Android team, collaborating with API and platform colleagues to shape engineering practices, write maintainable code, review peers, and mentor engineers as the mobile capability scales.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing native Android applications.
• Expertise in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose essential.
• Experience integrating Android apps with APIs and backend services.
• Experience writing maintainable, testable code and contributing to code reviews.
• Ability to take ownership of technical delivery and mentor engineers.
• Clear communication and collaborative problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deliver high-quality native Android features and enhancements.
• Contribute to technical decisions and help turn customer and business needs into effective mobile solutions.
• Support and mentor other engineers, sharing knowledge and helping the team maintain high standards.
• Collaborate with API, platform, product and wider technology teams to deliver reliable mobile experiences.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to reviews, testing and continuous improvement.
• Champion effective Android engineering practices as our mobile capability grows.

Skills

Native Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

API Integration

Testing & Code Review

Mentoring

Azure

Tools

Azure

Job description

Contract type: Permanent Full Time 35 hours per week
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: 50% hybrid/office based
Closing date: 11th November 2026

We are looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help grow and evolve Royal London’s mobile capability. This is an opportunity to make a visible impact, shape how we build high-quality native Android experiences and deliver new features and enhancements for our customers.

You will play a key role within our Android development team, combining hands‑on engineering expertise with collaboration, technical guidance and support for other engineers. Working with mobile, API and platform colleagues, you will contribute to the evolution of our applications and the engineering practices that underpin them.

About the role

• Design, build and deliver high-quality native Android features and enhancements.
• Contribute to technical decisions and help turn customer and business needs into effective mobile solutions.
• Support and mentor other engineers, sharing knowledge and helping the team maintain high standards.
• Collaborate with API, platform, product and wider technology teams to deliver reliable mobile experiences.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to reviews, testing and continuous improvement.
• Champion effective Android engineering practices as our mobile capability grows.

About you

You will bring strong commercial experience in native Android development and the confidence to take ownership of complex technical work while supporting others. We are particularly interested in the depth of your mobile engineering expertise, your approach to quality and the applications you have helped deliver.

• Strong commercial experience developing native Android applications.
• Expertise in Kotlin with experience with Jetpack Compose is essential.
• A strong software engineering background using native mobile technologies and modern Android development approaches.
• Experience integrating mobile applications with APIs and backend services.
• Experience writing maintainable, testable code and contributing to code reviews and automated testing.
• The ability to take ownership of technical delivery and support the development of other engineers.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving technical challenges.

Experience Azure within financial services or regulated environments would be useful, but it is not essential. We value strong native Android capability and your willingness to learn supporting technologies.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.