Android Developer

Job description

About us We own and develop the Dyson Link Smart home app, which is at the forefront of Dyson's IoT experience. We are proud of what we have built so far; we have an App Store and Google Play rating of 4.5 and 4.3 stars respectively, we have more than 1 million active users worldwide and our IoT platform has over 3 million connected Dyson machines. We have huge ambition to grow this platform and as we connect more machines from more categories the challenge is significant. About the role We are on the lookout for Android developers to join our mobile app team at Dyson. Communication, collaboration, self-evaluation, and a desire to continuously improve are second nature to you, and you value good engineering practices. You understand the importance of delivering robust, testable code while balancing the need to ship efficiently. Our Tech Our app has a modular architecture and is built using the MVVM pattern. Our codebase is primarily Kotlin, with an ongoing effort to migrate remaining Java components. We leverage modern Jetpack libraries to accelerate development and reduce boilerplate, including Navigation Component for UI flows and WorkManager for background tasks. For networking and APIs, we use Retrofit, AWS IoT SDK, and Gson, alongside Dagger for dependency injection. Given the asynchronous nature of our application, we make extensive use of Kotlin coroutines to model and manage event streams. Our testing stack includes JUnit and Mockito for unit testing, and Espresso with Kakao for UI testing. We continuously evaluate and adopt tools and frameworks that improve developer productivity and code quality. What you’ll be doing Working with your fellow developers to contribute to features and improvements to our Dyson Link app, ensuring solutions are scalable, testable, and robust Working closely with cross-functional teams including test engineers, product owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI designers, and engineers across cloud and embedded domains Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following modern Android best practices Participating in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, and technical discussions Sharing knowledge within the app team to grow your skills and support the development of your teammates Identifying new technologies, tools, and approaches to continuously improve engineering standards and product quality About you You’re interested in how technology can improve the environments people live in You’re a collaborative individual who values Agile principles and thrives in empowered teams You have 2–3 years of experience contributing quality code to Android applications used by real customers You have strong working knowledge of Kotlin and modern Android architecture (e.g., MVVM) You are comfortable working with asynchronous programming (e.g., coroutines or similar concepts) You understand the importance of testing and have experience with unit and/or UI testing frameworks You’re passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others You get satisfaction from solving real-world problems with well-crafted software You are comfortable using AI-powered developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar) to improve productivity, while applying sound engineering judgment to validate generated code #LI-KML Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.