[Hiring] Android Developer @STATSports

Role Description

We're looking for an Android Engineer to join our Software team and help design, build, and evolve the native Android apps that players and coaches rely on, on the training pitch, on match day, and everywhere in between. This is a product-focused role where you'll take ownership of features end-to-end, from Bluetooth communication with our wearable GPS devices and data sync through to polished, user-facing experiences in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

You'll work closely with Product Owners, designers, and our iOS and backend engineers, and you'll have real scope to bring AI-powered features to life, both on-device and through our AWS generative AI stack.

If you're enthusiastic, curious, love solving problems creatively, and follow the sport as closely as you follow the tech, this role is for you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, building, testing, and supporting native Android applications in Kotlin, using Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture (MVVM, Coroutines, Flow)
• Building reliable Bluetooth Low Energy communication with our wearable devices, pairing, data transfer, and background sync using foreground services and WorkManager
• Building and integrating AI-powered features, consuming services built on AWS Bedrock, and exploring on-device capabilities such as ML Kit and Gemini Nano
• Integrating with our serverless backend APIs and designing for offline-first use, with solid caching and sync (e.g. Room)
• Owning and improving the release pipeline, Gradle builds, CI/CD, Play Console testing tracks, and staged rollouts
• Writing meaningful unit and UI tests (JUnit, Compose UI testing, Espresso) and taking responsibility for the reliability, performance, and battery impact of what you ship
• Collaborating with Product Owners, designers, and our iOS team to turn ideas into working features that provide meaningful insight to players and coaches
• Bringing creative, outside-the-box thinking to problems
• Working within an Agile environment, actively taking part in planning, reviews, and continuous delivery

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping native Android apps in Kotlin
• Comfortable with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines / Flow, and dependency injection (Hilt or similar)
• Understanding of the Android platform, app lifecycle, background execution limits, runtime permissions, and device/OS-version fragmentation
• Experience with Android's Bluetooth LE APIs or connected-device/wearable apps (a big plus)
• Familiarity with Health Connect, location services, or Room
• Comfortable consuming REST APIs and working alongside backend engineers; exposure to AWS (S3, serverless, Bedrock) is a bonus
• Some familiarity with iOS or Swift; not essential, but helpful
• Experience using AI tools as part of your development workflow
• Enthusiastic to learn and keep up with AI developments
• Genuine interest in sport
• Clear communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to reason through problems and articulate thinking clearly
• Ability to distinguish between genuine support/technical issues and user error
• Personal or side projects that showcase skills and learning

Benefits

• A product-focused role building AI-powered mobile apps used by players at scale
• Ownership of meaningful features from concept through to delivery
• Hands-on experience with connected wearable hardware, modern Android tooling, and cutting-edge AWS AI services
• A culture that values curiosity, autonomy, learning, and a genuine love of sport
• The chance to see your work in players' pockets every day