Lead Android Engineer

About the role

Dyson is seeking a Lead Android Engineer to own and drive complex technical initiatives for the Dyson Link Smart Home app. This senior individual‑contributor position combines deep Android expertise with strong ownership, influencing architecture and technical direction across the Android platform.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve the app architecture to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example through hands‑on development of high‑quality, well‑tested Kotlin code.
• Collaborate with product, design, QA, cloud, and embedded teams to deliver end‑to‑end experiences.
• Influence technical standards via design reviews, RFCs, and best‑practice documentation.
• Identify and resolve systemic issues to improve stability, performance, and developer experience.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools, frameworks, and approaches to boost engineering effectiveness.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping Android applications.
• Proven technical leadership in collaborative, Agile environments.
• Passion for using technology to improve everyday environments.

Required skills

• Kotlin (primary language) and Java.
• MVVM architectural pattern.
• Android Jetpack libraries (Navigation Component, WorkManager).
• Retrofit, AWS IoT SDK, Gson for networking.
• Dagger for dependency injection.
• Kotlin coroutines for asynchronous programming.
• JUnit and Mockito for unit testing.
• Espresso and Kakao for UI testing.