Senior Android Developer
Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Basingstoke • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £58,810 - £80,190 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AndroidKotlin
About the role
- Enhancing and modernising an existing Android application
- Improving performance, stability, and user experience
- Working directly with mobile camera pipelines using the Android Camera 2 API
- Integrating and running machine learning models on-device to support:
- Supporting hands-on testing in live sports environments
- Collaborating closely with Tracking and Computer Vision teams to ensure clean system integration
- Lead best practices for Android mobile development
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Kotlin-based Android applications
- Own complex features from design through to delivery
- Work closely with developers across Tracking, Tooling, and Computer Vision
- Support testing, debugging, and deployment of new features
- Participate in technical discussions and code reviews
- Contribute pragmatically in an agile, sprint-based environment
Requirements
- Strong, hands-on experience in Android development using Kotlin
- Deep understanding of Android application architecture, lifecycle, and threading
- Proven experience working with the Camera 2 API in production
- Experience building high-performance, real-time mobile applications primarily using Kotlin
- Solid understanding of software design principles and clean code practices
- Comfortable taking ownership and influencing technical direction
- Highly desirable: Experience running or integrating machine learning models on mobile devices
- Understanding of on-device performance optimisation for video or ML workloads
- Experience with mobile video capture or processing pipelines
Benefits
- Annual leave: 25 days plus 8 public holidays
- Enhanced pension scheme with 5% employer matching
- Hybrid and flexible working model
- Wellbeing support, including complimentary access to the Unmind app
- Onsite gym (Basingstoke office)
- Access to sporting events and tickets
- Sony Group Company employee discounts
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Hard skills
Android developmentKotlinCamera 2 APImachine learning modelsperformance optimisationmobile video capturereal-time mobile applicationssoftware design principlesclean code practicesagile development
Soft skills
collaborationownershipinfluencing technical directiontestingdebuggingcode reviewscommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptability