Engineering Lead Android
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Job Summary
Job Description
Engineering Lead Android
Location: Melbourne (Hybrid working)
Salary: $175000 $200000 (inclusive of super)
Reporting to: Engineering Manager
Team size: Up to 5 direct reports
Position Purpose
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead Android to lead and grow a high-performing mobile engineering team while remaining hands-on in delivery. This role combines people leadership technical excellence and strategic collaboration to deliver high-quality Android solutions that meet business needs.
As a senior engineering leader you will own Android development end-to-end drive engineering standards contribute to architectural decisions and foster a strong culture of continuous improvement collaboration and accountability within a small highly capable team.
Key Responsibilities
People Leadership
Lead mentor and manage a team of up to 5 engineers supporting performance career development and engagement.
Provide guidance on team resourcing and capacity planning to address delivery priorities.
Promote a strong engineering culture focused on quality collaboration and continuous learning.
Act as a mentor and role model championing values inclusive behaviours and best practices.
Build strong internal partnerships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and external partners.
Technical & Engineering Leadership
Lead Android development as a hands-on contributor delivering scalable secure and high-quality mobile solutions.
Own system-wide development activities including estimation design build testing deployment and support.
Develop detailed technical designs and system specifications aligned with solution architecture and industry standards.
Translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions.
Ensure stability availability and performance of Android applications in production.
Drive DevSecOps practices including CI/CD monitoring logging and alerting.
Identify and mitigate technical risks proactively resolving issues and escalating where required.
Provide subject-matter expertise across mobile engineering and contribute to broader digital platform initiatives.
Process Improvement & Innovation
Champion modern engineering practices and continuously improve ways of working.
Actively contribute to Communities of Practice and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Promote continuous improvement innovation and capability uplift across engineering teams.
Stay across emerging mobile technologies and propose improvements to tooling frameworks and platforms.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Extensive experience leading software design and implementation in mobile environments.
Strong Android expertise including Kotlin Jetpack Compose Coroutines and Accessibility.
Architecture patterns: MVVM MVP Clean Architecture.
Testing practices including Espresso UI testing and unit testing.
CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Fastlane or similar.
Static code analysis tools such as Detekt and SonarQube.
Experience with Crashlytics or equivalent monitoring tools.
Cloud experience (AWS or equivalent).
Strong understanding of RESTful APIs microservices and GraphQL.
Proven experience working in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
Desirable (but not essential)
iOS development experience (SwiftUI).
Familiarity with Apple Human Interface Guidelines and accessibility standards.
Unit/UI testing on iOS (XCTest).
Security best practices and vulnerability management.
Experience working within scaled agile environments (e.g. SAFe).
Qualifications & Experience
8 years relevant industry experience in software engineering.
2 years experience in an engineering leadership role (or equivalent capability).
Strong understanding of CI/CD TDD and building high-quality production-grade solutions.
- Must have PR or Australian citizenship
Whats on Offer
Salary: $175000 $200000 (inclusive of super)
Hybrid working model with flexibility and autonomy
Opportunity to lead a small high-impact Android team
Collaborative forward-thinking technology environment
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- REST
- Eclipse
- Android
- Application Development
- SDKs
- SQLITE
- IOS
- Java
- JSON
- Gradle
- Mobile Applications
