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Senior Android Engineer

Lancaster, UK (in office, hybrid)

2 days per week minimum at Lancaster University

About the Role

As a Senior Android Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Android applications that delight our users. You will collaborate with our talented science and engineering teams to implement new features, improve performance, and ensure a seamless user experience. This is a unique opportunity to work on impactful projects in a fast-paced, innovative environment, including:

• App development in Kotlin
• Problem solve with our team, bringing new perspectives and experience into our team
• Implement modern best practices and high quality, testable, readable code
• Identify and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks to enhance application efficiency.
• Optimize application performance for scalability and robustness.
• Continuously improve the development process by implementing tools and automation.

Key experience

• Proven experience as an Android engineer with at least 5+ years of hands-on development experience.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, with a strong understanding of Jetpack Compose and Fragments
• Experience in SDK development; pragmatic approaches to interface design and error handling and recovery.
• Knowledge of image processing (OpenCV)
• Knowledge of cameras & optics (Camera2, CameraX)
• Excellent software engineering skills with a focus on modern best practices (SOLID, Clean, TDD, CI/CD, automation)
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile team.
• Ability to quickly learn complex problem spaces

Nice to have experience

• Experience with iOS, .Net MAUI, Flutter, React Native, AWS
• A background in science or technology

If you are a driven and ambitious engineer ready to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you.