Android Engineer

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Qantas is hiring an Android Engineer for a full-time onsite role at the new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide. You’ll help architect and deliver scalable Android software powering our travel and loyalty platforms, working across planning, development, delivery and monitoring with a mobile team. Bring strong Kotlin skills, Android design principles, Jetpack Compose, Room, Coroutines, GitHub, and experience with mobile CI pipelines (GitHub Actions). A focus on testing, code quality, API design, and automation is essential, as is clear communication with tech leads. Highlight real world impact, ownership, and collaboration. Apply early by tailoring your resume to demonstrate architecture patterns, reliability, security, and measurable outcomes. Applications close July 12.

Company Description

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

• Challenge yourself & add significant value to Qantas Group
• Challenging opportunity to innovate and drive change through Mobile technology
• Full-time and permanent position based at our new Product Innovation Centre in Adelaide

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product Innovation Centre located in Adelaide will contribute to consumer needs by architecting and delivering robust, scalable systems that power seamless digital experiences, ensuring fast, secure, and reliable services that support evolving customer expectations. 

As an Android Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the development of the software systems that power our business. Aware of Android trends, hands-on, and a skilled software developer with the experience to both dive into code and deliver high quality, well-designed software. They share a large amount of responsibility for the quality of the software being built, including but not limited to achieving desired business outcomes, meeting reliability and performance expectations and safely managing security and data privacy concerns.

As a member of the Mobile team, you’ll be directly involved in all aspects of our Android app from early in the planning and development lifecycle through to delivery and monitoring. You’ll be working with teams of mobile developers on a large, widely used native application that is an important self-service channel for our customers into many areas of our travel and loyalty business.

You’ll have:

• Confidence in applying patterns, techniques and approaches that ensure high-quality, highly flexible software.
• Strong ability to reinforce strong software engineering principles and best practices.
• Attention to detail and a quality-focused mindset with a strong background in testing and code quality, and interest in automation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical requirements effectively to the Tech lead and Chapter Lead.
• Experience with mobile architecture patterns, dependency management, and build optimisation strategies.
• Knowledge of Google's Android design principles and interface guidelines.
• Recognition of the importance of good API design in mobile applications, along with proficiency in writing and maintaining Unit tests
• Interest in building and extending tooling and processes to improve developer productivity, delivery and consistency throughout the mobile teams.

Some of the technologies you’ll be working with:

• Kotlin
• Android Studio
• Room
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Jetpack Compose
• GitHub
• Mobile Continuous Integration – GitHub Actions

Why Qantas?  

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. 

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.  

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel: 

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays. 
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.  
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.  
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan. 

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Applications will close by the 12th of July