Android Software Release Engineer

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Each month, Barclays delivers hundreds of changes to its mobile banking applications and supporting services. This role works closely with delivery teams to review, merge, build, and release changes to Android mobile banking applications from across the bank, ensuring they are delivered in a secure, high‑quality, and repeatable manner.

The Android Software Release Engineer will help ensure that frequent change is delivered safely and reliably, while maintaining strong engineering standards, release controls, and compliance with Android platform requirements.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Good level of Android application development competency, including a solid understanding of how Android applications are built, packaged, and signed.
• Awareness of the requirements and constraints for delivering applications to the Google Play Store, including build variants, versioning, and release processes.
• Hands‑on experience building, maintaining, and enhancing build pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab Pipelines.
• Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, from source control through build, test, and release.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Good understanding of mobile release governance, including artefact versioning, dependency management, and promotion of builds across environments.
• Well organised, with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple work requests and adjust priorities as needed.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate can be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall) or Manchester (Piccadilly Place).