Senior Android Engineer

About the role

DWS is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join its high‑performing digital team in Melbourne. You will help shape one of Australia’s most widely used mobile applications, delivering features that reach millions of users daily.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and release Android features from concept through production.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and guide technical direction across the Android platform.
• Maintain high code quality through peer reviews, testing and best‑practice engineering standards.
• Identify and reduce technical debt while improving platform performance, accessibility and reliability.
• Collaborate with product specialists, UX designers, QA and security stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of mobile capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing, knowledge sharing and technical coaching.

Required profile

• Extensive commercial experience delivering large‑scale Android applications.
• Advanced Kotlin expertise in enterprise‑grade Android environments.
• Strong communication skills to engage both technical and business stakeholders.

Required skills

• Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, XML UI, Activities & Fragments.
• Android architectural patterns: MVVM, MVP, MVI.
• Dependency injection, layered architecture, multi‑module codebases.
• Gradle build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, version catalogs.
• Testing strategies, code quality standards, legacy app modernisation.