Senior AI Applied Software Engineer

Position:
Senior AI Applied Software Engineer (Android)

Company:
Backbase

Location:
Spain, Madrid

Employment type:
Not Specified

Work Arrangement:
Not Specified

Short Summary:
As a Senior Applied AI Software Engineer (Android), you will serve as a technical anchor for our mobile identity and banking suites—shaping SDK architectures that impact over 100 million users worldwide. You will lead the shift toward AI-native mobile development, combining deep Android architecture expertise with agentic AI tooling to set new productivity and quality benchmarks.

Responsibilities:
- Champion the integration of LLM workflows, prompt engineering, and agentic AI tooling into the mobile engineering life cycle.
- Architect scalable, secure Android SDKs, libraries, and modular mobile components using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines.
- Own end-to-end mobile capabilities—from local data persistence and security layers to backend API integrations and CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain an uncompromising focus on quality, enforcing automated test coverage targets (80%+ unit testing) and performance profiling.
- Mentor mobile developers, advocate best practices in mobile architecture, and establish shared engineering standards across the team.

Requirement:
- 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a heavy focus on native Android development.
- Advanced mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Clean Architecture/MVVM, and building modular mobile SDKs used by external teams.
- Active, hands-on production use of AI-driven developer tooling, agentic workflows, or mobile build automation.
- Deep understanding of mobile CI/CD automation tools (Bitrise, Jenkins, Gradle scripting) and non-functional requirements (mobile security, performance).
- Proven capacity to mentor peers, evaluate complex trade-offs, and guide autonomous squads toward clear technical goals.

Benefits:
Not Specified