Senior Android Engineer developing mobile applications for News UK. Collaborating with cross - functional teams to deliver best - in - class software solutions and mentor engineering staff.
About the role
- Android Developer focusing on Kotlin and SDKs with AI integration at GFT. Building efficient mobile applications with advanced payment technologies and observability.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain Kotlin SDKs/libs for integration (HTTP clients, JSON/Protobuf serialization, semantic versioning, retry policies, circuit breaker, robust JNI wrappers)
- Standardize contracts between mobile and BFF; develop simulators/mocks (mock BFF, mock mSiTef/SiTef-like) to accelerate Android development and QA testing
- Implement complete mobile observability: OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation in the Android app, trace correlation across mobile → JNI → BFF, and creation and maintenance of dashboards (e.g., Grafana, Datadog or similar)
- Integrate AI on mobile: TFLite / ONNX / ML Kit models for heuristics to prioritize feature flags/over-the-air updates, detect usage/failure patterns, and proactively suggest actions (automatic diagnostics)
- Configure and evolve mobile automation in Harness (or a similar pipeline): pre-release validations, instrumented smoke tests, degraded network simulations (throttling, packet loss) and resilience scenarios
Requirements
- Advanced Kotlin for Android (strong experience with Clean Architecture, coroutines, Flows, Jetpack)
- Solid fundamentals in JNI (Java Native Interface) and native C/C++ ↔ Kotlin integration
- Experience with efficient serialization (JSON and Protobuf)
- Telemetry and advanced diagnostics on real devices (crash reporting, performance profiling, structured logging)
- Knowledge of mobile AI/heuristics (TFLite, ML Kit, ONNX Runtime Mobile or equivalents)
- Intermediate English required (technical reading, writing, calls and documentation)
- Proven experience with EMV payments, NFC, and hardware troubleshooting (POS, payment terminals, card readers)
- Track record of creating internal reusable SDKs consumed by multiple apps and teams.
Benefits
- Multi-benefit card — choose how and where to use it.
- Scholarships for undergraduate, graduate, MBA and language courses.
- Incentive programs for certifications.
- Flexible working hours.
- Competitive salaries.
- Annual performance review with a structured career plan.
- Opportunity for international career development.
- Wellhub and TotalPass.
- Private pension plan.
- Childcare assistance.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Life insurance.
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