Android Tech Lead for Major UK Operator

Qualifications and requirements

General requirements

• At least 5 years of working experience of developing Android Applications
• Experience as tech lead
• Knowledge of building phone and tablet user-interfaces that scale to screen size.
• Knowledge of SOLID Principles and design patterns used in mobile applications
• Experience with all or some of the development process, such as software architecture,
  monitoring and observability, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Unit Testing/UI Testing
• Great source control (Git) practices with reliable branching and commit strategies.
• Knowhow of the key values and principles of Agile, including purpose of ceremonies and
  Agile estimating and planning.

Android Skill Requirements

• Kotlin‑first development with Jetpack Compose
• Responsive UI for phones & tablets
• Experience building mobile backend services / APIs Desirable
• Strong grasp of SOLID principles & mobile design patterns
• Dependency Injection with Hilt / Dagger
• Kotlin Coroutines & Flow (RxJava a bonus)
• AndroidX Architecture Components (ViewModel, Navigation, lifecycle)
• Modular Android apps
• Firebase (analytics, remote config, crash reporting, etc.)
• End‑to‑end delivery experience: architecture, CI/CD, monitoring
• Unit & UI testing (Compose‑friendly)

Projects

Merapar is a European Software/Technology consultancy company that specializes in cloud (AWS and GCP) , video and audio platforms and utilities that now also has an office in Chile serves the Americas market. We work in small agile teams and help global video power houses such as BBC, NBC Universal, Liberty Global, Discovery to get innovations to the market. Quality for us is key and we always use the best tools available for Software development

The Android Tech Lead will work with a large video operator in the UK to enhance their current video and news applications to make them more Tiktok like. You will be leading a small Android development team and you have an hands on appoarch

Job functions

• Lead a small team of Android Developers
• Mentor less experienced team members
• Balancing delivery with enabling others: leading technical decisions, shaping Android tasks from larger stories and supporting Android colleagues.
• Shapes and shares Android technical decisions.
• Develop software of high quality
• As you will be working for Santiago and be part of an international team we require you to be available at 8:30AM if that is needed
• Work inside Agile teams working collaboratively with other developers

Conditions

• Macbook Pro will be provided
• Very experienced colleagues you can work with and learn from
• We meet once per week to work and have lunch together
• Full time contract
• 20 days of vacation (which you can take right away during the first year)
• Extra medical insurance