Android Developer

About This Role

Developing and delivering features for an Android experience that is effortless, valuable, and useful for young drivers is the core of this engineering role. You will connect customers with insights, rewards, and services that make insurance helpful every day, not just when something goes wrong. This role involves working alongside experienced engineers to create high-quality mobile products while growing your technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and established architecture patterns
• Work on API integration, data handling, networking, and caching, with support on more complex offline and sync requirements
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend Engineering, and QA to understand customer needs and deliver well-tested features
• Write clean, maintainable code and automated tests, taking part in code reviews and acting on feedback
• Investigate bugs, crashes, and performance issues, helping improve app reliability and customer experience
• Contribute to releases and improvements to tooling, documentation, and development practices

Requirements

• Practical experience developing and releasing Android applications
• Working proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with a good understanding of Android frameworks and APIs
• Familiarity with modern Android architecture, including View Models, coroutines, and Flow
• Experience integrating APIs and handling data within mobile applications
• Experience writing automated tests, debugging issues, and using Git in a collaborative development environment
• An understanding of CI/CD and mobile release processes
• Good problem-solving skills and an interest in understanding how technical choices affect customers
• Clear communication skills, with the confidence to ask questions, share ideas, and work across disciplines
• The ability to take ownership of agreed work, recognise when you need support, and respond constructively to feedback
• Curiosity about AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar, and a willingness to learn how to use them effectively

Benefits

• Opportunities to use AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, learning how they can support development while maintaining quality and good engineering judgement

About the Company

At Veygo, the company helps young drivers unlock independence by making car insurance simpler. Since launching in 2016, Veygo has helped more than one million customers and sold over eight million policies.