Senior Android Developer

Project overview

Senior Android Developer

📍 Malmö, Sweden (2-3 days onsite per week)

🗣 English required | Swedish is a plus

📅 Start: November 2026

⏳ Initial 3-6 month contract

Join a Team Modernising Mobile Engineering

We're looking for a Senior Android Developer who combines deep technical expertise with a pragmatic leadership mindset.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys tackling complex engineering challenges, modernising mature applications, and helping teams raise their technical standards without disrupting delivery. You'll play a key role in shaping how software is built, tested, released, and maintained while mentoring developers and driving sustainable improvements across the Android platform.

If you're passionate about clean architecture, continuous delivery, technical excellence, and helping teams become more autonomous, this opportunity is for you.

What You'll Be Doing

Your Technical Background

Strong expertise in:

Proven experience with:

The Type of Engineer We're Looking For

You are someone who:

✅ Makes pragmatic architectural decisions and clearly explains trade-offs

✅ Knows when technical debt should be fixed now, later, or intentionally left alone

✅ Can challenge existing technical decisions constructively

✅ Leads through influence rather than authority

✅ Helps developers improve rather than taking ownership away from them

✅ Gives thoughtful and actionable code-review feedback

✅ Balances engineering excellence with business realities

✅ Prefers steady progress over perfection

✅ Creates an environment where issues are raised early and solved collaboratively

• Take technical ownership of a production Android application
• Drive architectural and engineering improvements across the platform
• Reduce technical debt through practical, incremental modernization
• Improve build, testing, release, and deployment processes
• Lead technical initiatives without relying on large-scale rewrites
• Support and mentor developers through pairing, coaching, and code reviews
• Promote modern engineering practices that enable frequent, reliable releases
• Collaborate closely with product, backend, and platform teams
• Help build a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Traditional Android Views
• Coroutines & Flow
• Modern Android Architecture
• Dependency Injection
• Gradle build configuration and optimization
• Android lifecycle management and platform APIs
• Unit, Integration, and UI Testing
• Google Play Console and release management
• Mobile CI/CD pipelines
• Automated build, test, and quality validation
• Crash analysis and application performance optimization
• Feature flags and progressive delivery approaches
• Versioning, rollback, hotfix, and release strategies
• Incremental refactoring of legacy Android codebases
• Trunk-based development and continuous integration

Nice to have

Experience with any of the following is highly valued:

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to make a genuine impact on a product, a platform, and the engineering culture around it. You'll work alongside talented developers while helping shape a modern mobile development environment where software can be released confidently, continuously, and at scale.

Interested in taking ownership, driving technical excellence, and helping a team reach the next level? Let's talk. 🚀

• Feature-flag platforms and progressive delivery tooling
• Fastlane or similar release automation tooling
• Mobile observability and monitoring platforms
• Modularization of large Android applications
• API design and backend collaboration
• Security and privacy best practices
• Accessibility standards and implementation
• IoT, connected devices, or energy-related products
• Driving technical transformation without formal management responsibilities

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Stockholm, Sweden, Western Europe, GB