contract android developer for travel insurance

Booking.com Insurance offers travel insurance products, including Car Hire Insurance and Accommodation Flexibility products. The products are designed to protect customers when they rent a car and give guests the freedom to change their accommodation plans.

• Build new features end to end, collaborating with Android, iOS, and Backend engineers
• Own technical decisions and lead architectural discussions, documenting designs in RFCs, ADRs, and design documents
• Monitor production crashes, respond to incidents, solve complex bugs, and lead incident investigations
• Support colleagues’ professional growth and onboard new team members
• Improve owned services’ performance and resource efficiency
• Keep Insurance products and features up to date with technology standards and department guidelines
• Implement tests and processes to meet test coverage and quality service-level agreements
• Profile apps, identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and set up and monitor app health metrics
• Connect business and product goals to technical tasks
• Prioritize issue resolution based on customer impact
• Collaborate with app developers, backend developers, product owners, and quality specialists to improve the in-app customer experience

• 6+ Years of experience as an Android Developer, with Kotlin as the primary language
• Hands-on experience building production UI with Jetpack Compose
• Deep understanding of Kotlin Coroutines and Flow, including structured concurrency, cancellation, threading, and testing asynchronous code
• Experience with modern Android architecture (MVVM/MVI, Jetpack ViewModel, Navigation) and dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)
• Extensive experience writing unit, UI (Compose/Espresso), and screenshot tests
• Strong knowledge of full-stack engineering and backend software concepts
• Experience designing and evolving API contracts between apps and backend services
• Experience with multi-module Gradle projects
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience profiling Android apps using Android Studio Profiler, Baseline Profiles, and Macrobenchmark
• Experience with A/B testing and release planning
• Comfortable working in English, both written and spoken
• Будет плюсом: GraphQL (schema design, queries, mutations, fragments), preferably in a federated setup; Kotlin Multiplatform; having shipped an app to the Google Play Store; motivation to explore new technologies, applications, and environments

• Contract engagement
• Opportunity to contribute to a high-scale, complex, world-renowned product and see the real-time impact of the work on millions of travellers worldwide
• Fast-paced, performance-driven culture
• Opportunity to use technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and entrepreneurial spirit
• Opportunity to promote and drive impactful, innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioural, and interpersonal development through on-the-job opportunities, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation