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# Android Developer

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** Bath, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Android Software Development, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Firebase, Kotlin, Stripe, Jetpack Compose, Real Time Data, Api Design, Restful APIs
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815182505-android-developer

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience building production Android apps with Kotlin
 * Solid understanding of modern Android development (Jetpack, coroutines/Flow, lifecycle, dependency injection)
 * Experience working with APIs, data modelling, and performance considerations
 * A testing mindset with a pragmatic approach to quality (unit/instrumentation where appropriate)
 * Confidence owning large features and making sound technical decisions
 * Firebase experience (especially Firestore / real-time data)
 * Payments integrations (e.g. Stripe)
 * Experience modernising legacy codebases
 * Exposure to event-driven backends

## Description

Remote / Hybrid: Somerset-based client - onsite working a day or two a week is preferred

If you are an Android Engineer looking for a culture-first, mission-driven organisation where your work will have a real-world impact on people's lives - then this could be the role and company for you.

SR2's client has a consumer facing platform which interacts with customers via mobile apps. You'll take ownership of major parts of our clients Kotlin mobile experience across two apps, working in a small, high-trust team where engineers have genuine input into what gets built and how.

This is a build-and-ship role: balancing reliability and performance improvements with fast, iterative feature delivery.

Overview:

 * Build high-quality features using Kotlin (Jetpack Compose where suitable, otherwise Views)
 * Integrate and collaborate on API/data contracts with REST services as well as real-time gRPC based services
 * Implement payment flows where needed (e.g. Stripe)
 * Improve legacy areas and raise engineering standards (architecture, testing, CI/CD)
 * Enhance performance, reliability, and offline capabilities
 * Collaborate closely with product and operations to ship usable releases quickly

Requirements:

 * Strong commercial experience building production Android apps with Kotlin
 * Solid understanding of modern Android development (Jetpack, coroutines/Flow, lifecycle, dependency injection)
 * Experience working with APIs, data modelling, and performance considerations
 * A testing mindset with a pragmatic approach to quality (unit/instrumentation where appropriate)
 * Confidence owning large features and making sound technical decisions
 * Firebase experience (especially Firestore / real-time data)
 * Payments integrations (e.g. Stripe)
 * Experience modernising legacy codebases
 * Exposure to event-driven backends

Interview Process:

 * Technical interview
 * Final interview with leadership

Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact potential candidates regarding next steps.


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