About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Founded in 2013, Amach was created to solve a specific problem in aviation: too much complexity, too little usable intelligence. We help airlines modernise their operating model using cloud, data and Al-delivered by teams with deep aviation domain expertise.
Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reduce costs and increase customer experience and satisfaction.
We’re hiring a Principal Android Engineer to lead the architecture and development of a large-scale, customer-facing mobile app used by a broad audience. This is a high-impact technical leadership role where you’ll shape mobile strategy, mentor engineers, and drive modern Android best practices across multiple teams.
You’ll work in cross-functional agile squads alongside Product, iOS, QA, and Engineering leaders to deliver high-quality, scalable mobile experiences. The role combines hands-on development with forward planning, mentoring, stakeholder management, and project management responsibilities.
This is a key role in an ongoing digital transformation, with the opportunity to modernize the codebase and build new features from the ground up and drive end-to-end solution delivery.
Required Experience:
- 10+ years of Android development experience, with 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role
- Strong expertise in Kotlin, Android SDK, and Jetpack Compose
- Proven track record architecting, launching, and scaling production apps on Google Play
- Strong expertise in mobile architecture, design patterns, and scalable systems
- Experience with mobile testing, CI/CD, and release automation
- Solid understanding of APIs, networking, security, and third-party integrations
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly in simple, non-technical language
- Excellent communicator who can influence technical decisions across teams and manage stakeholder relationships effectively
- Strong problem-solver who connects technical choices to business outcome
- Experience mentoring engineers, forward planning and managing projects or technical workstreams
- A passionate and committed approach, with a strong focus on collaboration, team fit, and company culture
Key responsibilities & Duties Include:
- Own and evolve the Android technical vision and architecture
- Remain hands-on with Kotlin development while providing technical leadership to the wider team
- Lead cross-team design decisions and drive scalable, maintainable solutions
- Drive end-to-end delivery, from technical planning and solution design through to implementation and release
- Mentor engineers, lead by example and raise the bar for Android engineering standards
- Champion modern Android development (Jetpack Compose, modularization, clean architecture)
- Work effectively with onshore and offshore engineers, supporting collaboration and consistent delivery across the team
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to balance speed, quality, and business impact
- Communicate complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Improve app performance, reliability, observability, and release processes
- Lead resolution of complex production issues and reduce technical debt
- Support forward planning, project management, and stakeholder engagement across key mobile initiatives
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
Skills Required
- 10+ years of Android development experience, with 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role
- Strong expertise in Kotlin
- Strong expertise in Android SDK
- Strong expertise in Jetpack Compose
- Proven track record architecting, launching, and scaling production apps on Google Play
- Strong expertise in mobile architecture, design patterns, and scalable systems
- Experience with mobile testing, CI/CD, and release automation
- Solid understanding of APIs, networking, security, and third-party integrations
- Experience mentoring engineers and managing projects or technical workstreams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
- Passionate, collaborative approach and strong team fit
What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security. We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers. Why choose Amach: 1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner. 2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines. 3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced. 4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned. 5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner. 6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention. 7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs. We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction. If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
