Android Developer (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose) – Support Our Lead Developer

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TYPE OF WORK

Any

SALARY

Negotiable

HOURS PER WEEK

30

DATE UPDATED

Sep 18, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

Australian veterinary-care platform that connects vet nurses with pet owners and clinics. We have a native Android app, a native iOS app and a web app, all on one shared AWS backend, and we ship every week. We're looking for an Android developer to work closely with our lead developer, own day-to-day Android work, and help take the native app through its Play Store launch.

What you'll do

Build and polish features in our Jetpack Compose app: bookings, calendar, messaging, pet records, visit notes, earnings
Bring features that already exist on web and iOS to Android, matching our design system
Fix bugs reported by users, reproduce them on the emulator and real devices, and verify the fix
Write unit tests and keep code quality checks (detekt) and CI green
Help prepare Google Play releases
Open clear, well-described pull requests and respond to code review

Must have

3+ years building production Android apps in Kotlin
Solid Jetpack Compose experience: state, navigation, performance
Kotlin coroutines and Flow
Experience consuming GraphQL or REST APIs (Ktor or Retrofit) and handling auth tokens
Dependency injection (Koin, Hilt or Dagger) and Gradle
At least one app you shipped to Google Play (please send the link)
Good written English. We work mostly async in GitHub and Jira.
At least 4 hours of overlap with Australian Eastern Time

Nice to have

AWS Amplify Android SDK, Cognito, or AppSync subscriptions
Mapbox Maps SDK
kotlinx.serialization, detekt
Firebase Cloud Messaging (push notifications)
Experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.). We use them daily.

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