Company
Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company.
We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences which enable some of the world’s
best known brands to acquire, engage and retain the most demanding and choice-rich customers. In
particular, our unique expertise and insight into high earning, frequent travellers allows us to create
products and solutions for our clients that inspire greater customer engagement to drive more
profitable relationships, enrich their travel experiences, protect what matters and assist in in times of
need.
While specializing in Financial Services, Travel and Retail, we also support clients in multiple sectors.
We have worked with over 90 airlines, 20 hotel groups and more than 600 financial institutions and
banks, with clients including Accor Hotels, Air France KLM, American Express, British Airways,
Cathay Pacific, Diners Club, Mandarin Oriental, Mastercard, Radisson Hotel Group, Sephora, Visa
and Vhi.
We take our 30 years’ experience working with these kinds of household names in over 170
countries, and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their
propositions, and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.
Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business with 2,000 passionate people working in 20
locations worldwide. Our solutions include Priority Pass, the world’s best known airport experiences
programme, while we are also the trusted partner behind many of the leading financial services,
airline and hotel brand’s reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.
Purpose of the job
The Senior Android Developer at Collinson’s Travel Experience Division will be at the forefront of
bringing our visionary roadmap to life, focusing on delivering globally appealing, customer centric
solutions. Acknowledging the importance of regional nuances, the chosen candidate will guarantee
that our digital offerings strike a chord at both the universal and localized levels. This role is pivotal in
architecting and developing Android applications that offer a smooth, user-friendly travel experience
for our global clientele.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Maintain and enhance the existing codebase, with a strong focus on continuous integration
and deployment (CI/CD).
- Identify, fix, and resolve bugs while continuously improving application performance.
- Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
- Integrate and maintain third-party libraries and APIs to ensure seamless functionality.
- Continuously evaluate, adopt, and implement new technologies to improve development
efficiency.
- Work closely with the design team to ensure UI/UX best practices and Material Design
guidelines are followed.
- Identify and address security vulnerabilities to ensure a secure application environment.
- Stay up to date with the latest Android trends, architectures, and emerging technologies.
Knowledge, skills and experience required
- 4–8 years of overall software development experience, with 4+ years in mobile application
development.
- Hands-on experience building Android applications, with a strong understanding of Android
app architecture, lifecycle, and best practices.
- Strong focus on user interaction, usability, and visual design, with an eye for detail.
- Solid knowledge of architectural design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, and Clean
Architecture, with proven experience building scalable and modular applications.
- Proven experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows (e.g., code
generation, testing, debugging, performance analysis, or automation).
- Experience with Gradle and dependency management tools such as Maven Central and
Version Catalogs.
- Commitment to writing clean, maintainable code, with experience in testing strategies
including unit tests, UI tests (Espresso), and snapshot testing.
- Good understanding of common mobile design patterns such as dependency injection,
observers, and reactive programming.
- Passion for coding and continuous improvement across frameworks, languages, and
development processes.
- Ability to take ownership and drive the development of impactful features and products end to
end.
- A genuine passion for writing well-structured, readable, and maintainable code.
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment, eager to learn new technologies, tackle technical
challenges, and grow together as a team.
