Lead Mobile Engineer - Android

Job Context

We are looking for an experienced Lead Mobile Engineer to join our team working on a complex field-service mobile application used by engineers across the UK.

You will lead the technical direction of our Android platform, guiding a team of developers working on a mature, production codebase with a large user base.

Location: Leeds (LS15) or Reading (RG1), on-site.

What You’ll Do

Required skills and experience:

• Proven ability to lead technical projects and guide engineering teams, including mentoring engineers.

• Clear communicator who can work well with team members of all disciplines and directly with the business.

• Experience developing and refining AI-assisted development workflows, with the ability to improve how the team uses the latest tools and practices.

• Comfortable evolving team ways-of-working in dynamic fast-paced delivery environments.

Desirable experience:

• Track record of evaluating emerging technologies (including AI tooling) and introducing them effectively.

• Understanding of Play Store publishing, policies, and release management.

• Experience with cross-platform approaches (KMP, shared architecture patterns).

• Awareness of mobile security best practices, including dependency vulnerability scanning.

• Experience in SaaS, field service, or logistics domains.

What You’ll Bring

• You are a leader who strives for psychological safety in your team.

• You celebrate the success of those around you and promote individual and team development outside of pure delivery.

• You stay current with the Android ecosystem but apply new tools and patterns as appropriate, not just because they're new.

• You balance the need to work in legacy codebases whilst modernising and delivering new features.

• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and course-correcting when needed.

• Deep expertise in Kotlin and the modern Android stack (Compose, coroutines, MVVM).

• Experience with legacy codebases, including XML Views, Fragments, and Java interop.

• Strong understanding of offline-first architecture and API integration.

• Familiarity with the broader Android ecosystem (Hilt, WorkManager, Realm, Firebase, Location Services).

• Experience in software development, with a strong understanding of modern programming languages and associated tooling.

• Familiarity with cloud based hosting.

• Proven ability to lead technical projects and guide engineering teams.

What We Can Offer You

• A generous annual leave entitlement plus a personal leave entitlement

• Private Health Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support on relationships, bereavement, finances)

• Life Insurance

• Company pension scheme, with an uncapped 5% employer contribution

• Generous Parental Leave Program

• Paid Volunteer Leave Days

• Public Holiday Exchange Scheme

• Talent Referral Programme – get rewarded for referring a friend to join our team!

• Cyclescheme, a salary sacrifice to treat yourself to a bike & equipment

• Home & Tech Scheme, a salary sacrifice to treat yourself to some new tech

• A discounts and cash back scheme

• Casual dress and relaxed office environment

• Opportunities for career progression and development

• Diverse training & internal networking opportunities across all of our product lines

• Service recognition awards

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Our Core Values

We Are One Team

We Are Customer Centric
We Are Growth Minded
We Are Accountable
We Celebrate Success

Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange & ClockShark are equal opportunity employers with a best-of-class onboarding program and supportive team environments. This means that we want everyone to feel welcome and offer equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other non-performance factor.  

If you'd like to join a fun and progressive organisation, where there are opportunities to develop your career, please apply now with your CV/Resumer.

Please note: no agencies will be accepted in the recruitment of this role. Any CVs provided to Simpro Software by agencies will be treated as a gift.