McLaren Strategic Solutions - Lead Android Developer - Java/Kotlin

Description :

Lead the design, development, and delivery of high-scale, production-grade Android applications. This role involves hands-on coding, system design ownership, and technical leadership with a strong influence across product, engineering, and operations.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own end-to-end development of complex Android components using Kotlin/Java.

- Provide technical leadership to agile teams and drive best practices in CI/CD, automated testing, and SDLC improvements.

- Lead system design, architecture decisions, and technical estimations aligned to business goals.

- Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and implementation plans.

- Drive code quality standards, unit/UI automation, performance optimization, and debugging practices.

- Oversee production support, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and continuous reliability improvements.

- Mentor mid-level engineers and grads; act as a technical advisor across teams.

- Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and Operations to meet functional and non functional requirements.

- Lead product initiatives and contribute to next-generation prototypes.

Must-Have Skills :

- Android development using Kotlin and Java

- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Android Jetpack components

- MVVM, Clean Architecture, and Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)

- REST APIs, Retrofit, WebSockets, and third-party SDK integrations

- Performance tuning, profiling, and debugging

- JUnit, Espresso, Mockito, and test-driven practices

- Gradle, Git, and CI/CD pipelines

- Firebase or client-side configuration management

- Design secure, scalable, highly available mobile systems

- Analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Nice-to-Have Skills :

- Experience in Fintech or financial systems

- Exposure to reactive/functional programming paradigms

- Understanding of scalable, data-intensive architectures

- Awareness of ML use cases in Fintech and productionization concepts