Senior Android Team Lead: Kotlin, Compose & CI/CD

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Android Lead to steer a growing engineering team in Dublin. You will set technical direction, own delivery across the Android roadmap, and stay hands-on with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose while mentoring engineers.

You will own the CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions, drive a culture of high-quality testing, manage technical debt, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA and Backend to ship features end-to-end. Excellent English required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in an Android Lead or Engineering Manager role or significant senior-level Android development with leadership ambition.
• Proven track record delivering and scaling consumer-facing Android applications.
• Kotlin is a must — deep, idiomatic command including coroutines, flows, and modern Kotlin patterns.
• Jetpack Compose is a must — production experience building Compose-based UI with state management, navigation, and performance tuning.
• Strong experience with CI/CD in GitHub Actions — building, signing, testing, and releasing Android apps through automated pipelines.
• Demonstrable experience managing and reducing technical debt in a long-lived codebase.
• Strong experience with unit testing and end-to-end testing on Android (JUnit, MockK/Mockito, Espresso, Compose testing, etc).
• Proven experience managing the performance of engineers across levels and developing senior talent.
• Strong understanding of Android architecture patterns (MVVM/MVI, clean architecture, modularisation) and dependency injection (Hilt/Koin).
• Able to balance delivery speed, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Android engineering team — setting technical direction and owning delivery across the Android roadmap.
• Write production Kotlin code and build UI in Jetpack Compose; remain hands-on and lead by example in code reviews.
• Own and evolve the CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions — builds, signing, automated testing, distribution, and release automation.
• Drive a healthy testing culture across the team — unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Actively manage and reduce technical debt — track it, prioritise against feature work, and advocate with stakeholders.
• Manage the performance and growth of engineers at all levels — 1:1s, clear expectations, feedback, career progression.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA, and Backend to scope, plan, and deliver features end to end.
• Own Android app performance, crash-free rates, startup time, and Play Store quality — instrument and act on data.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard Android engineers as the team grows.
• Stay current on the Android ecosystem and bring changes (Compose updates, Kotlin features, AGP, policy) into practice.

Skills

Android leadership

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD

Testing (Unit & E2E)

Technical debt management

Mentoring / people management

Stakeholder communication

MVVM/MVI architecture

Dependency injection (Hilt/Koin)

Delivery ownership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Android Lead to steer a growing engineering team in Dublin. You will set technical direction, own delivery across the Android roadmap, and stay hands-on with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose while mentoring engineers.

You will own the CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions, drive a culture of high-quality testing, manage technical debt, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA and Backend to ship features end-to-end. Excellent English required.