Senior Android Engineer

At Kickbase, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way fans experience football. Our vision is to push the boundaries in the football industry, creating immersive and exciting experiences for fans to engage with the sport they love.As a Senior Android Engineer on the Kickbase product team, you own features end to end, from technical design to release and beyond. You set the bar for quality and performance in our Android app, mentor the engineers around you and help shape how we build product. You'll quickly build a deep understanding of our product, its core components, and the workflows and technology behind it. Ready for the next level?

What You’ll Do

ENGINEERING

• Own complex features end to end: technical design, implementation, testing and release
• Make architectural decisions and keep our codebase healthy, scalable and well tested
• Drive the ongoing move from XML Views to Jetpack Compose
• Keep the app fast, stable and smooth, with a focus on performance, animations and crash-free sessions
• Review merge requests and give clear, constructive feedback
• Work closely with iOS, backend, design, product and QA to ship features across platforms
• Continuously improve your work processes with AI

LEADERSHIP

• Mentor intermediate and junior engineers, and be their first point of contact for technical guidance
• Question existing processes and improve how we build and ship product
• Contribute to defining and achieving quarterly OKRs alongside the management team
• Help build a culture of constructive feedback and continuous improvement

What You Bring

• [5+] years of professional Android development, with apps shipped to production
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, including Coroutines and Flow
• Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose and the Android View system
• Solid understanding of Android architecture (MVVM), dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger) and networking (Retrofit)
• Experience with app performance optimisation, transitions and animations
• A habit of writing tests and caring about stability in production
• Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical initiatives
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Based in Osijek, Croatia [on-site 4 days in the office]

NICE TO HAVES

• Ability to read our C#/.NET backend code
• Experience with sports, gaming or real-time apps
• Familiarity with agile methodologies

What We offer

• Besides our competitive compensation, we offer company-funded pension subvention, PassSport, childcare subvention, health-checkups, continuous training possibilities, one additional vacation day on top of your contractual holidays for each year you are with us (max. 30), X-Mas-closing-week (on top of your vacation days) and not to forget a team that feels like buddies
• Our people-first management approach and transparent career paths will give you the opportunity to grow your career like never before
• We just opened our office in Eurodom and are happy to deliver a nice employee experience
• Workation and other flexibile arrangements is something we’ve always loved to offer
• ⚖ Working overtime is something we only know from football – a healthy work-life balance is a key to success

Please submit the following documents with your application:

• Letter of motivation
• CV

We ask for your understanding that we can only consider complete applications.