Hawk-Eye Innovations (HEI) · Budapest, Hungary
Location: Hungary (UK candidates also considered) Contract: Permanent, full-time
Hawk-Eye Innovations is at the forefront of sports technology, delivering officiating, tracking, broadcast and performance solutions across some of the world's biggest sports. As part of Sony Sports, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation, helping athletes, coaches, teams, broadcasters and governing bodies make better decisions through technology.
What if athletes, coaches and teams could access the kind of tracking technology that has traditionally been out of reach?
We’re building a new generation of tracking services for elite and semi-professional sport, creating products that bring powerful technology to the people who need it most.
We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to take ownership of the mobile application at the heart of this experience.
You’ll join a small, cross-functional engineering team building something new, with the opportunity to shape the architecture, influence technical decisions and see your work make a tangible difference. We work with a high degree of autonomy and embrace AI-augmented development to help us build and iterate at pace.
You’ll own the Android application from architecture and implementation through to release and ongoing reliability. It’s the part of the product that athletes, coaches and teams interact with directly - the application that captures data, coordinates devices, manages sessions and transfers information back to the wider system.
The challenge is making all of this work reliably in the real world.
Our products are often set up and operated by users who have never used them before. They may be working on unreliable internet connections, managing multiple devices and operating in environments we cannot control. That means intuitive setup, clear feedback, resilient data transfer and graceful recovery from failures are fundamental to the product, not features to add later.
You’ll work across the full Android stack, from camera capture and local storage to device-to-device communication, background processing and release management. You’ll also integrate native C++ components developed by our computer vision engineers, helping bring advanced tracking capabilities into a dependable mobile experience.
This is a role for an engineer who enjoys owning complex problems end to end, making thoughtful architectural decisions and building software that works beyond the ideal conditions of a development environment.
As the team grows, there may also be opportunities to mentor other engineers, take technical leadership of mobile development and establish the standards and practices that shape the discipline.
You’re an experienced Android engineer who enjoys taking ownership of an application from the first architectural decisions through to production release.
You understand that great mobile engineering is about more than functionality. It’s about building an experience that remains reliable when devices behave differently, networks drop out and users encounter situations you couldn’t have anticipated.
You’re comfortable working independently, making sound technical decisions and collaborating with engineers outside your specialism. You take pride in delivering production-quality software and are motivated by solving practical problems that have a direct impact on users.
You’ll have expert-level knowledge of:
It would be beneficial to understand:
You don’t need to have worked with every technology listed. We’re interested in strong native Android fundamentals, sound engineering judgement and the ability to learn and solve unfamiliar problems.
Our stack includes Kotlin, C++ using the Android NDK and JNI, Protocol Buffers, REST and WebSocket APIs, AWS, Git, GitHub Actions and Jira.
Why Hawk-Eye?
At Hawk-Eye, you'll have the opportunity to work on technology used across the world's leading sports while solving complex technical challenges alongside talented engineers and product teams. You'll play a key role in shaping products from the ground up, working in an environment that values innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.
If you're excited by the opportunity to build cutting-edge mobile products that make a genuine impact in sport, we'd love to hear from you.
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