Android developer in government apps

You’ll join the mobile platform team on a UK government app. The team builds and maintains the common parts of the app, brings in features built by other teams, and manages releases. You’re engaged through hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy that’s B Corp and Great Place to Work certified. For 20 years we’ve helped public and private sector organisations through digital transformation.

• You’ll build and improve the common parts of the Android app, such as login, in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose.
• You’ll apply secure coding practices to authentication, data storage and network calls, in line with OWASP MASVS.
• You’ll work on how features from other teams fit into the app.
• You’ll review code, including for security issues, and put your own up for review.
• After a release, you’ll watch Crashlytics and fix anything that’s crashing.
• You’ll work closely with QA and backend engineers, and flag technical or security risks early.

• Several years of commercial experience in native Android development, with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Hands-on mobile security experience, such as authentication, secure storage or certificate pinning.
• Working knowledge of the OWASP Mobile Top 10 and MASVS.
• You can explain the risk each security measure you’ve built protects against, and why it works.
• Experience using Crashlytics to keep an app stable.
• You’re comfortable in a small, fast-moving team and happy to say what you think in a code review.
• You must be eligible for SC clearance, which means you’ve lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years. Ideally you’ll already hold it.

• Outside IR35
• Start date: ASAP
• Contract length: Three months
• Location: Remote first
• Office days: Once or twice a year (London)
• You’ll work in native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on a live government app.
• You’ll see how features from several teams come together in one app, and help shape how they fit.
• You’ll work from home most of the time.