Overview

2x Android Developer for a 6 month rolling contract inside IR35 based in Leeds, offering 2 days per week remote and requiring 3 days per week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes across different Android versions.
• Apply Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Work with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Engage with the open-source Android ecosystem and libraries for common tasks, benchmarking, and optimisation.
• Adopt Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines, and code versioning tooling (Git).
• Apply SOLID principles, MVVM/MVI architecture, Android Architecture Components, and other Jetpack libraries, including Jetpack Compose.
• Work within a modularised codebase and contribute to UI testing.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience in Kotlin/Java and Android SDK.
• Experience with Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools (Git) and applying architectural patterns (SOLID, MVVM/MVI).
• Experience with Jetpack components and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience working in a modularised codebase and performing UI testing.

Desirable experience

• Understanding of basic app architectures (MVP/MVVM/MVI/Clean Architecture).
• Experience with common libraries such as Dagger2, Retrofit, Coroutines, RxJava.
• Experience with cloud messaging APIs and push notifications.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web design.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.