Senior Android Engineer

This is a (mainly) remote role, with occasional (eg: 3-4 days per month) visits to our Lancaster office. While our software team is largely remote, you are welcome to work more regularly, or even full-time, in office if preferred.

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 projects with a positive impact in an innovative environment, including:

• App development in Kotlin
• Problem solve with our team, bringing new perspectives and experience into our team
• Mentor and guide more junior members of the team
• Implement modern best practices and high quality, testable, readable code
• Identify and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks to enhance application efficiency
• Optimise 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 and a good understanding of Jetpack Compose
• Proficiency in Kotlin, including coroutines
• Excellent software engineering skills with a focus on modern best practices (nice to have examples: TDD, pair programming, refactoring, 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 in SDK development; pragmatic approaches to interface design and error handling and recovery
• Knowledge of image processing (OpenCV)
• Knowledge of cameras & optics (Camera2, CameraX)
• Experience with iOS, .Net MAUI, Flutter, React Native, AWS
• Experience with Python scripting, which we use for automation and device calibration
• A background in science or technology

Benefits

We're continually updating and improving our benefits. Some of our benefits include:

• 30 days annual leave (on top of public holidays)
• Relocation package available if you want to move to Lancaster
• Great Tech - A brand new, hi-spec MacBook or MacBook Pro.
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
• Cycle to Work Scheme - Big savings when buying a bicycle through the business.
• Pension

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