Android Developer

The Guardian is a global organisation that delivers investigative journalism and holds power to account. It develops digital products, including award-winning Android apps focused on providing fast and stable user experiences.

• Build and test major new features for The Guardian’s Android apps;
• Improve and maintain existing app functionality;
• Collaborate through pair programming and with stakeholders across iOS, server-side, web engineering, design, product, editorial, and commercial teams;
• Take a leadership role in some team projects;
• Guide and support other developers in their growth;
• Contribute to product and technical decisions;
• Explore innovative solutions and participate in regular hack days.

• Demonstrated expertise in Android development;
• Strong competence in one or more modern Android development tools, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, MVVM, Webviews, other Jetpack libraries, and modular app architectures;
• Ability to test code and promote a culture of testing;
• Experience with JVM unit testing, instrumented testing, and UI regression testing;
• Comfortable working with cutting-edge technologies and legacy code;
• Experience in, or willingness to take on, a leadership role in team projects;
• Rough understanding of iOS development and interest in learning more;
• Nice to have: familiarity with Swift and ObjectiveC for iOS, Scala and Typescript for server-side development.

• £82,000 Per year;
• One office day per week in Kings Cross and four remote days;
• 30 Days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase five additional days;
• Pension contributions of 8–12% when contributing 5%, depending on age;
• Two paid volunteering days annually and payroll giving;
• Season ticket loans;
• Private healthcare, life cover, income protection, eye tests, and optional dental insurance;
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies;
• IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policies;
• Employee benefits platform with health and wellbeing support;
• Free yoga and pilates classes, corporate gym membership, and cycle to work scheme;
• Canteen providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner;
• Support for professional qualifications, vocational courses, and apprenticeships;
• The application includes a mandatory Android development question expected to take no longer than five minutes.