Senior Android App Engineer (Kotlin)

Intellias; Kraków; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is seeking a Senior Android Automotive Engineer to help develop the next generation IVI media casting solution for a leading EU OEM. The role sits in a Scaled Agile team delivering high-quality automotive-grade software on the Android Automotive platform.

Ideal candidates have strong Kotlin and C++ skills, deep Android architecture knowledge, multithreading expertise, and hands-on experience with testing, debugging, and code reviews to ensure robust, scalable implementations.

Qualifications

• Strong Kotlin development skills with a solid understanding of Android application architecture.
• Strong understanding of C++, memory management, STL containers.
• Good knowledge of architecture and design patterns, and API design principles.
• Proficiency in multithreading and concurrency using Kotlin Coroutines and/or RxJava.
• Strong experience with Android Studio, Gradle.
• Strong expertise in HAL and Android services.
• Hands-on experience with multithreading, including race conditions, deadlocks, etc.
• Practical experience with unit testing.
• Experience with debugging tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• High critical thinking to evaluate alternatives and align with business goals.
• Self-motivated, well-organized, and a strong team player.
• Creativity and independence; experience across the software development life cycle.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

Responsibilities

• Software design of media casting software components for AOSP Android Automotive platform.
• Source code review of AOSP Android Automotive software components.
• Optimization of media casting components from architectural and algorithmic perspectives.

Skills

Kotlin development

Android architecture

C++

Memory management

STL containers

Design patterns

API design

Multithreading

Kotlin Coroutines

RxJava

Android Studio

Gradle

HAL

Android services

Unit testing

Debugging tools

Communication

Agile methodologies

Scrum

Kanban

Tools

Git

Bugzilla

Jira

CI/CD (Jenkins)

GitLab

GitHub

CMake/Make

Job description

• Intellias is glad to announce a vacancy for Senior Android Automotive Engineer position! The project is focused on development of next generation IVI media casting solution, for leading EU OEM. Successful candidates will be working in a friendly and process oriented team, developing a high quality solution. The team will work according to a Scaled Agile framework best practices, used by the OEM, with focus on technology excellence and high automotive-grade quality standards.
• Project goal is development of IVI media casting solution on Android Automotive software platform for leading EU OEM. It is full cycle development project that at the moment is in early software architectural design phase. The following technology stack is planned to be used: AOSP based Android Automotive SW platform, Kotlin/Java/C++ programming languages, Media casting technologies incl. Google Cast and Apple AirPlay. Team size at the peak will be 10+ engineers. Scaled Agile best practices alongside with automotive grade processes will be applied on this project.

Requirements

• Strong Kotlin development skills with a solid understanding of Android application architecture
• Strong understanding of C++, memory management, STL containers
• Good knowledge of architecture and design patterns, and API design principles
• Proficiency in multithreading and concurrency using Kotlin Coroutines and/or RxJava
• Strong experience with Android Studio, gradle
• Strong expertise in HAL and Android services
• Hands-on experience with multithreading, including race conditions, deadlocks, etc.
• Practical experience with unit testing
• Experience with debugging tools
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teams
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy
• Self-motivated, well-organized, detail-oriented, and a strong team player
• Creativity and high level of independence
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle
• Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and engineering practices

Will be a plus

• Good understanding of Android Automotime platform architecture
• Aptitude and desire to independently learn new technologies
• Experience with bug-tracking tools like Bugzilla, Jira, etc.
• Experience with code versioning tools such as Git (pull requests, branching strategies, tags, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub)
• Familiarity with the build process management tools such as CMake/Make
• Experience with Python, bash scripting
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Software design of media casting software components for AOSP Android Automotive platform
• Source code review of AOSP Android Automotive software components
• Optimization of media casting components from architectural and algorithmic point of view