Senior Android Engineer

Job description
About the Mobile Android Team

Together, we foster an environment of idea sharing and mutual support, effectively capturing requirements and refining user experiences. Our decision-making is data-driven, with a strong reliance on A/B testing and user feedback to steer our future actions. As a cohesive unit, we take full ownership of every stage in the software development lifecycle, emphasizing teamwork and celebrating collective achievements over individual accomplishments.

About the role

We are looking for someone to join our Mobile Android team as a Senior Android Engineer and embark on a journey of innovation and creativity. In this position, you'll be integral to a collaborative team dedicated to improving the native Android user experience. In this role, you’ll play an important part in implementing new features and building moments of delight for our users with beautiful user interfaces, working seamlessly with product, UX, and the rest of the engineering team to help achieve our goals and deliver for our customers. In addition to delivering key growth work, you’ll also be looking for ways we can improve the Android technical landscape and our ways of working to ensure we’re always delivering value in the best way possible.

About You:
• You are committed to writing clean, testable code and enjoy TDD and collaborative programming practices
• You bring a strong sense of what good architecture looks like and can take responsibility for the long-term health of the app codebase.
• You are comfortable owning large pieces of work, whether that be a new flagship feature or a difficult architectural refactoring.
• You identify opportunities to collaborate with engineers outside of your team and advocate for best engineering practices with the native apps in mind
• You have a solid understanding of reactive programming concepts with RxJava and/or Coroutines.
• You are comfortable communicating with stakeholders and colleagues from across the business, providing clarity on technical topics and adjusting your style to suit your audience.
• You understand the responsibility of acting as a mentor to other engineers, guiding them as they develop their skill set and progress their careers.
• You contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by challenging constructively and driving positive change in team processes and technical landscape.

Our Tech:
• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• RxJava/Coroutines
• GraphQL
• GitHub (SCM and CI/CD)
• Firebase / Google Analytics

How we get there:
• Kanban
• MVI
• Clean Architecture
• TDD
• Programming

Our Expectations of our Senior Engineers
• Good engineering comes first - You’ll have a great technical knowledge base and the experience to know what works and what doesn’t. We expect you to apply these skills in making the right decisions and applying best practices wherever possible.
• Technical mentoring and leadership - You’ll be collaborative, inclusive, and spread knowledge wherever possible. People will be looking up to you for technical guidance and part of your role will be to help them on that journey. You will also be responsible for creating the right forums to drive engineering principles and practices across all of engineering. You have the autonomy to drive decisions, but it’s your responsibility to ensure everyone is involved.
• Culture and advocacy - You will be supporting a growth culture (e.g. running lunch & learns, brown bags, etc.) as well as advocating the organisation externally through meetups, blogging, hackathons etc. This is important to us as we are all in this together.