Senior Android Engineer

Contracting often means being dropped into a client's team as the outsider.

Here you'll join a hedgehog lab team delivering a UK bank's Android app as it moves to Jetpack Compose.

You'll be part of a consultancy team that owns the delivery, working with people who care about testing, code reviews and code quality.

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years of experience helping public and private sector organisations through digital transformation. We're B Corp and Great Place to Work certified.

You'll be part of a hedgehog lab delivery team working on our client's customer-facing Android app. Our client is a well-known UK bank.

What you'll be doing

• Building new features and screens in Jetpack Compose
• Maintaining XML and Data Binding screens and migrating them to Compose
• Working in Kotlin, with some legacy Java, within an MVVM architecture using Hilt and Dagger
• Consuming REST APIs and maintaining third-party SDKs
• Writing unit tests with JUnit and MockK so changes and refactors stay safe
• Debugging on emulators and real devices, including performance issues
• Reviewing pull requests and taking part in sprint planning, stand-ups and retros

It's a contract outside IR35, expected to start in January 2027 and run for around 6 months. You'll work on a remote first basis.

What's in it for you

You'll build new UI in Compose from the start, on a codebase that's actively modernising.

You'll add regulated banking work to your CV, which carries weight on future contracts.

Who you'll be doing it for

If this sounds like you, apply below and we'll be in touch.