Senior Mobile Engineer (Android)

Job Description

Kia ora!

As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in bringing Air New Zealand’s digital ambition to life. Your work will directly power the mobile experiences that help customers search, book, manage, and enjoy their journeys, delivering seamless, reliable interactions at scale.

Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to become the world’s leading digital airline. Within our Digital team, you will join a group of bold thinkers and builders who are redefining how technology supports travel. You will work in a dedicated product squad, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering peers to create intuitive, high performing Android applications that serve customers across Aotearoa and around the globe.

How you’ll make an impact

• Design and develop advanced Android applications that support millions of customer interactions each year
• Contribute to scalable, secure, and high-performance architecture that enables rapid product evolution
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UI and UX Designers, and backend engineers to translate ideas into elegant mobile solutions
• Improve app performance, reliability, and maintainability through continuous optimisation and technical excellence
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex bugs and performance issues to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Champion modern Android practices and help uplift engineering standards across the squad
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

What you’ll bring

• At least 5 years of Android development experience, ideally within large scale or complex environments
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with working knowledge of Java
• Strong understanding of Android SDK, RESTful APIs, and modern mobile architecture patterns
• Experience with Swift, backend for frontend patterns, deployments, or AWS, advantageous but not essential
• Experience using AI tooling to enhance development workflows
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
• A passion for clean, maintainable code and delivering quality at pace
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative product environment.

If you meet the majority of the criteria and are excited by the opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

Why join Air New Zealand?

• We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work.
• Discounted flights for you and your whānau, plus access to standby travel across a global network
  FlexiLeave, with the option to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave each year
• A strong learning culture with on-the-job development and growth opportunities across the business. 

Ready for take-off?

This is your opportunity to help shape the digital future of an iconic New Zealand brand, working at scale and solving meaningful challenges. If you are ready to build world class Android experiences that connect people and places, we would love to see your application.

Applications close 02/06/2026

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."