This is a fantastic opportunity for experienced Android Engineers to join ABC Digital Product and help shape the applications Australians use to access ABC content across mobile and connected TV.
We have two opportunities 1 x Senior Engineer & 1x Lead Engineer to work across the ABC’s Android and Android TV applications.
You’ll work hands-on with Kotlin and modern Android technologies, shaping architecture and technical roadmaps while driving quality, performance and engineering best practice. Our Lead Engineer will also have broader responsibility for people leadership, delivery and the long-term technical direction of the team.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the design, development and maintenance of ABC Android and Android TV applications
- Build scalable, complex, secure, accessible and highly performant applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Define and contribute to long-term technical roadmaps, architecture and mobile engineering strategy
- Design and develop reusable components and functionality across ABC mobile products
- Develop comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated testing
- Work across the mobile release lifecycle including CI/CD, automation pipelines and production monitoring
- Identify, triage and resolve complex production issues while continually improving system reliability
- Drive improvements across performance, security, accessibility and development standards
- Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to engineers
- For the Lead role, manage engineers responsible for solution design, development and testing while supporting coaching, succession planning, capability growth and retention
- For the Lead role, coordinate delivery across the team and influence strategic technical decisions across broader Digital Product
About You
You’ll bring:
- Highly advanced Android development experience, ideally demonstrated through public-facing applications written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Significant experience building scalable, secure, accessible and high-performing mobile applications
- Deep knowledge of modern Android frameworks, architecture and development tools
- Extensive automated testing experience across unit, integration and end-to-end testing
- Strong experience with mobile CI/CD, release automation and production monitoring
- Demonstrated technical leadership and the ability to influence engineering direction
- Strong communication skills and experience working across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups
- Strong organisational capability with experience coordinating complex multi-person delivery
- For the Lead role, demonstrated experience managing technical teams and providing strategic direction
- For the Lead role, significant experience coaching, mentoring and developing highly technical engineers
- For the Lead role, strong strategic thinking and the ability to influence stakeholders and drive engineering outcomes
What’s in it for you?
Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC’s digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia’s most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.
As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience-facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on ABC iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app, the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.
You’ll have the opportunity to influence the technical direction of major ABC mobile products while developing technology used at significant audience scale.
You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog: ABC Digital Product
For further information on these positions please contact Jamie Nedved, Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via email [email protected]
In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.
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