Senior Android Engineer
Hawk-Eye Innovations (HEI)1 month ago
Budapest, HungarySenior
Responsibilities
- Own the design, architecture, implementation, quality, maintainability, and performance of the production Android application.
- Develop camera and media capture functionality, including configuration, session management, recording, and local storage.
- Build device-to-device communication, setup, synchronization, shared state, and recovery mechanisms for connected devices and edge units.
- Implement resilient data and media transfer with prioritization, queuing, retries, and partial-failure handling.
- Integrate C++ computer vision components using the Android NDK and JNI.
- Manage releases across environments, including Google Play submissions, internal testing tracks, remote configuration, and release signing.
- Implement crash reporting, diagnostics, and observability for field reliability.
- Account for battery use, thermal behavior, background execution restrictions, permissions, Android versions, and device differences.
- Collaborate with backend, design, and computer vision engineers and contribute to planning, estimation, task breakdown, and risk management.
- Write testable, maintainable code and use AI-assisted development tools within security and intellectual property guidelines.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of mobile application development experience, including substantial delivery of native Android applications using Kotlin.
- A portfolio of applications shipped and available on Google Play.
- Experience taking applications through the full development lifecycle from project creation and architecture to release signing and store approval.
- A degree in a software-related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Expert knowledge of native Android development with Kotlin; device-to-device communication and data serialization; mobile camera and media systems; and resilient applications for unreliable networks.
- Comfort with mobile CI/CD and automated release pipelines, unit and integration testing, Git, code management, code review, Jira, mobile architecture, Android lifecycle constraints, web service integration, and API contracts.
- Beneficial experience with real-time or latency-sensitive data delivery, native computer vision or machine learning integration, multi-device coordination, and Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and platforms.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time employment.
- Hybrid working model with 2 days per week in the office in Hungary.
- Annual leave according to local labour law.
- Access to sporting events and tickets.
- Sony Group Company Discounts.
- Cafeteria options including SZÉP Card, nursery and kindergarten contributions, and an annual MOL Bubi Pass.
- Private medical insurance, life and accident insurance, dental clinic discounts, seniority awards, and an Employee Assistance Program.
About Hawk-Eye Innovations (HEI)
Hawk-Eye Innovations builds officiating, tracking, replay, and broadcast-enhancement systems used across tennis, cricket, football, rugby, and other sports. It licenses technology and delivers on-site services to leagues, federations, and broadcasters, supporting video review, goal-line decisions, ball-tracking, and live data. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Basingstoke, UK, the company is owned by Sony (Sony Europe) and is part of the Sony Sports Innovations Group.