Sr. Android Software Engineer

The Android Engineer at Collinsons Travel Experience Division will be at the forefront of bringing our visionary roadmap to life focusing on delivering globally appealing customer-centric solutions. Acknowledging the importance of regional nuances the chosen candidate will guarantee that our digital offerings strike a chord at both the universal and localised levels. This role is pivotal in architecting and developing Android applications that offer a smooth user-friendly travel experience for our global clientele.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design and ship new features.
• Maintain and improve existing codebase focusing on continuous integration and deployment strategies.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Ensure the best possible performance quality and responsiveness of the application.
• Integrate with third-party libraries and APIs ensuring seamless functionality.
• Continuously discover evaluate and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Coordinate with the design team to ensure UI/UX best practices are followed.
• Address any security vulnerabilities and work to ensure a secure app environment.
• Stay updated with the latest mobile trends architectures and emerging technologies.

Knowledge skills and experience required

• 3 years of experience building Android native apps
• You have hands-on experience building mobile applications using Kotlin and solid understanding of Android app design principles patterns and best practices.
• Good knowledge of architectural design patterns such as MVVM and MVP and proven experience ensuring modularized and scalable app architecture.
• You care about user interaction usability and of course making the interface beautiful
• Ability to take ownership and drive the development of exciting and impactful new features and products.
• A genuine passion for writing well-structured readable and maintainable code
• You know what to test why to test it and how to write flexible tests that wont break.
• An agile mindset and experience with Agile practices (Pairing TDD).
• You thrive in a team where you can learn and try new tech collaborate on technical challenges and grow as a team.

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years experience with 28 global locations servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries employing 1800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include: Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 colleagues globally.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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You can look forward to a competitive salary and benefit plan including but not limited to:

• Medical & Dental Care

• Priority Pass Membership

• Childcare allowance (for children up to 6 years old)

• Birthday day off

• Work From Anywhere 8 weeks per year