ANDROID ENGINEER AT AIRTEL

About Company:

At Airtel Africa, we act with passion, energy, and a can-do attitude. Innovation with an entrepreneurial spirit drive us. If you like “ordinary”, then we are not for you.

We champion diversity. We anticipate, adapt, and deliver solutions that enrich the lives of communities we serve. we roll up our sleeves to win with our customers.

By choosing Airtel, you choose to be part of a winning team. All this in addition to a brilliant opportunity to build a career in your field of expertise, across our different operating companies in Africa.

Job Description:

The Android Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing, developing, and scaling high-performance Android applications that serve millions of users. This position involves full ownership of the mobile app development lifecycle—from prototyping and optimization to launch and iteration—while adhering to best-in-class coding standards and industry practices. The engineer is responsible for building modular, maintainable, and scalable architecture, integrating advanced Android APIs, and driving innovation through proprietary SDKs and cutting-edge features.

Responsibilities

• Faster time-to-market and continuous product improvement: Exposed to entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimise, test, launch, and refine the Airtel Android Apps.
• Future-proof, maintainable codebase with high reusability: Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Android Apps. Keeping up to date with best industry practices and lead adopting new technologies.
• Increased customer satisfaction and app engagement: Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience.
• Measurable growth in active users and feature adoption: Build features that will reach millions of users.
• High team velocity and seamless cross-functional collaboration: Work with fellow designers and developers in an iterative environment with short and impactful development cycles.
• Efficient code reuse and reduced development time for new apps: Develop cutting edge functional modules that will be integrated across all our Android apps.
• Strategic partnerships enabled through robust technical infrastructure: Build proprietary SDKs to enable partnerships with other industry leaders.
• Culture of creativity and problem-solving within the team: Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.

Requirements:

Educational Qualifications: 

• 5+ years’ experience  developing large scale Android applications
• Demonstrable knowledge of relational database i.e. Oracle, Sql, MySQL
• Knowledge of popular Android frameworks – Espresso, RxJ ava, Retrofit, Dagger, Jetpack, Firebase
• Command of memory management, view hierarchy, battery optimization and in-depth experience with multithreaded and networked applications 

Relevant Experience :

• Worked with RESTful APIs, third-party SDK integrations and common technologies like HTTPS, JSON, OAuth and SQL. 
• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) and Java
• Experience developing backend services – RESTful APIs, GraphQL will be a big plus 
• Experience working with A/B testing, Event frameworks will be a plus.
• Ability to collaborate and drive results cross-team, ina complex working environment
• Experience working in a cross-functional Agile team. 
• Care for quality with an obsession for performance and willingness to spend time testing the team's work, as well as yours.

Salary

Application Closing Date: 01st August, 2025

Application Instructions:

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