Staff Android Engineer: Own a Production Android App in AI Aerospace

Archer56; Havant; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Equal Opportunity employer

Job summary

Archer is seeking a Staff Android Engineer to own the Android app of a mature consumer product, ensuring feature parity with iOS and delivering updates for a real user base.

You will work in a team that uses AI-assisted development, read Swift, and engage with Play Store releases, crash triage, and performance across devices.

This role is based in Havant, UK, with visa sponsorship possible for eligible positions and a commitment to diversity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience focusing on user-facing client software shipped in the Play Store.
• Bachelor's, or equivalent experience in Computer Science.
• Solid Kotlin experience and enough Compose to have opinions about it.
• Real 0→1 experience — you've built the first version of something, not just contributed to a long-lived codebase.
• Comfort with ambiguity. If you need a fully scoped program before you can start, this won’t be a fit.

Responsibilities

• Own the Android app of a mature, production consumer product: new features, refinements, and keeping it in step with iOS as both evolve.
• You’ll be reading Swift regularly, even if you never write it
• Make the parity‑vs‑platform‑convention call constantly, and defend your reasoning Ship.
• Play Store releases, crash triage, performance on the long tail of Android hardware — the unglamorous parts are part of the job.
• Work on new and different projects (mobile, web apps, internal tools) as opportunities come up across the org.
• This is where the generalist part of your skill set earns its keep.
• Work the way this team works: AI‑assisted development is the default here, not a novelty.
• We use Claude Code daily and expect you to be fluent with agentic coding tools — or to get fluent fast and honestly, we’ll be able to tell which.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Play Store

Swift (reading)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Archer is seeking a Staff Android Engineer to own the Android app of a mature consumer product, ensuring feature parity with iOS and delivering updates for a real user base.

You will work in a team that uses AI-assisted development, read Swift, and engage with Play Store releases, crash triage, and performance across devices.

This role is based in Havant, UK, with visa sponsorship possible for eligible positions and a commitment to diversity.