Android Engineer (Contract – 6 Months, Potential to Convert) Location: Burgess Hill Work Mode: Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week in the office) Contract Duration: 6 months (strong potential for permanent hire by the end client) Candidates must be comfortable with a contract role that may convert to a permanent position after 6 months. About The Role We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer (5 years experience) to help build and evolve mobile applications used by tens of millions of cardholders worldwide. You’ll be part of a small, fast-moving product team (designers, product owners, QA, and engineers) within the stability of a Fortune 100 organization. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, writing elegant Kotlin code, and obsessing over user experience and clean architecture. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain high-quality Android applications Rapidly iterate on features in a collaborative, agile environment Write, refactor, and delete code to keep the codebase clean and maintainable Identify, debug, and fix performance and stability issues Work with modern CI/CD pipelines and development workflows Collaborate with globally distributed teams Integrate Android apps with bespoke backend services Contribute to testing strategies (unit, integration, UI tests) Required Skills & Experience 5 years of professional Android development experience Strong proficiency in Kotlin Experience with Coroutines, Flow, and asynchronous programming Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose Knowledge of MVI architecture Experience with REST APIs and networking (OkHttp) Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Gradle, GitHub Actions, Circle CI) Strong debugging, performance analysis, and optimization skills Experience working with legacy codebases Unit, integration, and UI testing experience ( Espresso, JUnit ) Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) Nice to Have / Technologies You May Encounter Dagger / Dependency Injection RxJava WireMock, Test Fakes RAML API documentation Open-source contributions Experience working in large, distributed engineering teams