Senior Android Engineer

Description

The role is to design, build and improve software that gives the business, the platform and the technology teams the capabilities they need, for both customers and colleagues.

You will join the Identity Services team at the company as a Senior Android Engineer, building native Android authentication and identity features used by millions of customers in the mobile banking app.

Expect to work on Android authentication, biometrics and secure login flows that feel simple to the user while staying secure.

The role is a Vice President level position, with expectations around strategy, risk and leadership set out below.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver high-quality software with industry-standard languages, frameworks and tools, keeping code scalable, maintainable and fast.
• Work with product managers, designers and other engineers to define requirements, choose solution approaches and make sure new work fits the wider integration and business goals.
• Review peers' code and share knowledge to raise code quality across the team.
• Follow technology trends and take part in internal technology communities to build technical skill across the organisation.
• Apply secure coding practices to reduce vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data and deliver secure solutions.
• Write unit tests that check code design, readability and reliability.
• Build native Android authentication and identity features, including biometric login, using Android Keystore, Kotlin and AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality.
• Work with backend engineers, security specialists and UX designers to deliver mobile identity solutions.
• Advise senior stakeholders, including functional leaders and senior management, on how work affects their areas.
• Identify, assess and reduce risks, supporting the control and governance agenda and strengthening controls for your team's work.
• Understand how the organisation works so you can help the business reach its goals, and stay current with business activity and strategy by working with business-aligned support areas.
• Compare complex options with careful analysis, use research in problem solving, and develop new solutions to hard problems.
• Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influence and negotiation to reach key business outcomes.
• If you manage a team, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, coach performance, contribute to pay decisions, and lead with the four LEAD behaviours: listen and be authentic, energise and inspire, align across the enterprise, and develop others.
• If you are an individual contributor, act as the subject matter expert in your discipline, set technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and train and coach less experienced specialists.
• Contribute to strategy, set requirements, plan budgets and resources, maintain policies and processes, and escalate breaches of policy or procedure.

Requirements

• Deep Android experience, with expert knowledge of Kotlin, Java, the Android SDK, Jetpack libraries and modern Android architecture components.
• Solid grasp of identity and access management, including OAuth2 and OIDC, and of connecting to IAM backend services through Android SDKs and REST APIs.
• Skill with AI-assisted development tools to speed up Android work and improve code quality and debugging.
• Experience with MVVM or Clean Architecture, Dagger or Hilt, coroutines, Flow, and testing with JUnit, Espresso and MockK.
• Experience building authentication on Android, including fingerprint and face biometrics, Android Keystore, SafetyNet and secure credential storage.
• Expertise in secure Android development, including ProGuard or R8, root detection, certificate pinning and mobile security practice.
• Nice to have: experience integrating the Ping Identity SDK on Android, including custom authentication journeys.
• Nice to have: experience with Android CI/CD, Google Play releases and staged rollouts behind feature flags.
• Nice to have: knowledge of FIDO2, WebAuthn, passkeys and passwordless login on Android.
• Nice to have: background in performance tuning, memory profiling and fixing complex Android issues.
• Nice to have: familiarity with financial services mobile apps, PCI compliance, data protection rules and banking app security.
• You may be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, and job-specific technical skills.

Conditions

The role is based in the Knutsford or London office, with flexible hybrid working.