Software Engineer 2 - Mobile (Android)

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 100 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here.)

About the role
Hybrid

This is your chance to shape how millions of travellers experience ads — without making them feel like, well… ads. You’ll join our fast-growing App Monetisation team, building seamless, native advertising experiences that actually belong in the journey.

Sitting at the crossroads of travel, data, and commercial tech, you’ll help us design smart, privacy-first solutions that keep things relevant, performant, and (dare we say) enjoyable. It’s part engineering craft, part experimentation playground, and part “how can we make this even better?” energy.

What you'll be doing

• Building Native Ad Experiences: Craft scalable, high-quality advertising components within the Android app that feel like a natural part of the journey, not a detour


• Collaborating Across Teams: Partner with product, design, backend, data and commercial teams to deliver experiences that balance user value and business impact


• Evolving Ad Architecture: Contribute to ad-serving systems, creative rendering, and placement experimentation to keep things fast, flexible, and future-ready


• Driving Performance & Measurement: Own tracking, attribution and performance insights to help us understand what works (and what really works)


• Championing Privacy-First Development: Build with user trust front of mind, ensuring compliance with GDPR and best-in-class consent practices (e.g. Google Play policies, Privacy Sandbox readiness)


• Experimenting & Iterating: Use testing, analytics and feature flags to continuously refine and improve ad experiences at scale


• Communicating with Clarity: Share ideas, context and technical decisions openly, helping teams move faster and smarter together

About you

• Android Craftsperson: You’ve built complex, high-quality Android apps using Kotlin and are comfortable with modern Android development practices


• Architecture-Savvy: MVVM, Clean Architecture, modularisation… these aren’t just buzzwords to you — they’re how you build maintainable, scalable apps


• UI Fluent: Comfortable working with Jetpack Compose (and/or Views) to create polished, performant user experiences


• Ad Tech Curious: You’ve either worked with advertising tech or you’re genuinely excited to dive in and learn fast


• Quality-Driven: You write modular, testable code with performance, accessibility and scalability baked in


• Experimentation-Minded: Familiar with CI/CD, analytics and feature flagging — and you love using data to guide decisions


• Collaborative & Curious: You enjoy working across disciplines, sharing knowledge, and constantly levelling up yourself and those around you

What it's like here

We are the real deal — no corporate gloss, no empty promises. Just a team of genuinely curious, caring humans, building things that help travellers explore the world a little easier.

Skyscanner is made up of brilliant humans from every corner of the world. We believe travel makes the world better - and that the same is true of our diverse teams. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and products that are accessible to all.

Sound like your kind of adventure? Apply now and help us shape the future of travel.

We're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, and/or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know. If you’d like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.