Sainsbury's
Location
Holborn, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Sainsburys Tech - Senior Engineer -Android Why join us? At our multi-channel, multi-brand business, we're thrilled to offer you the opportunity to join our innovative team working with one of the most exciting and complex data sets in the country. As a Senior Engineer (Android), you'll be part of a collaborative and inclusive environment where we encourage curiosity, experimentation, and real-world problem-solving. With over 1.2 billion transactions annually, our work directly impacts millions of customers across the UK. You'll have the chance to utilise cutting-edge technologies and develop scalable, high-performance products that enhance customer experiences and drive efficiency. As a progressive and passionate member of our engineering community, you'll have the freedom to challenge the status quo, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to our ongoing success while continuously fostering your own personal and professional growth. What you'll do? As a Senior Engineer (Android), you’ll be part of one of our SmartShop Engineering teams, applying architectural and engineering principles to define and deliver technology that will better customer experiences, improve efficiency and reduce business costs, helping us to lower prices. With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver outcomes that support our customers. We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer centric mindset and a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community. More about the role You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Android and Kotlin You’ll work in a T-shaped way, doing mostly your Android specialism but have the opportunity to learn and work with our other technologies, such as iOS, Golang & React You’ll contribute to the entire product development lifecycle, from roadmap, to delivery, to potential decommissioning too You’ll help to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and your product You’ll lead the design and support of services that enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities You’ll be part of a collaborative team that highly values empathy and team spirit You’ll utilise Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming by default You’ll work in a lean environment to deliver early and often You’ll guide, support and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge, ideas & mentorship More about you You possess great expertise in engineering practice, including deep knowledge of engineering and architectural principles You are an expert in writing great quality Kotlin code for Android You have proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud services and CI/CD You’re driven and constantly striving to improve your own knowledge, the team and the division You’re empathetic and work well with others, and you’re highly collaborative in your ways of working You are an advocate of agile/lean delivery methodologies You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle You keep up to date with industry trends and emerging tech You excel at both coaching and mentoring other developers around you, and can adapt your style to suit the individual You can confidently lead complex technical discussions and implementation, and bring the team with you
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