Lead Mobile Engineer - Android

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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
• Click here to find out more about working at Simpro Group!
• Our Core Values
• We Are One Team
• We Are Customer Centric
• We Are Growth Minded
• We Are Accountable
• We Celebrate Success
• 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.

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

Your Match

How well this role fits your profile.

Company Intel

What employees say

Worked at simpro? Share your experience