Telematics Mobile App Developer

· Strong commercial Android experience in Kotlin, with Coroutines and Flow. You’d also help maintain the iOS app, so you’ll need the appetite to work in Swift.

· Real experience of background execution and its failure modes - foreground services, WorkManager, AlarmManager, broadcast receivers, and why they silently stop firing.

· Comfort with the Android runtime permission model, particularly background location.

· Modern Android UI and architecture: Jetpack Compose, structured concurrency with Coroutines and Flow, DI, local persistence, an HTTP client.

· The instinct to write tests for concurrency, not just happy paths. Most of what breaks here is a race, a lifecycle edge, or a restart mid-flight.

· Practical fluency with AI coding agents, and a clear-eyed view of what they’re bad at. We use them regularly, and we want someone who prompts deliberately, knows when to stop and do it by hand, and reviews the output critically.

· Willingness to debug from evidence - device logs, CSV traces, ANR and crash reports - and add relevant and targeted logging to catch a future problem.

· Existing iOS experience - Swift, SwiftUI/UIKit, and the CoreLocation-driven background model. You’d pick this up on the job regardless, but knowing it already is a real plus.

· Prior work in telematics, IoT, fitness/activity tracking, or navigation - anything that runs unattended and drains a battery is the closest analogue to what we do.

· BLE and the ways both Bluetooth stacks disappoint you.

· Location and sensor fusion, GPS accuracy, filtering noisy signals.

· Firebase - Crashlytics, Analytics and Remote Config - and using production telemetry to chase down the bugs you can’t reproduce on your own desk.

You don’t need an insurance background.

Small team, direct ownership. You’d take tickets end to end - investigate, fix, write it up, raise the PR, ensure QA knows what to test, then monitor the release. Be aware that these are long-lived apps: the recording engine has been evolving since 2017, and there are areas of it that nobody fully understands any more.

Occasionally there’s careful archaeology in code you can’t take on trust, and we’d expect you to leave it better documented than you found it.

Testing happens heavily on physical devices, because a simulator cannot tell you what a phone does in a car - in practice that means recording real test journeys on company phones and test accounts, so regular access to a vehicle, as driver or passenger, is useful. We’ll provide a Mac and phones to test with.

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us:

Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new

We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges

We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

If you're excited by this role but have some doubts about whether it’s the right fit for you, send us your application – if your profile fits the role’s criteria, we will be in touch to assist in helping to get you set up with any reasonable adjustments you may require.

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