Android Engineer

Job title:

Android Engineer

Company:

Sainsbury’s

Job description

Job Description:Android C4As an Engineer (Android), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions.In the role, you’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Kotlin (including coroutines and flows), Retrofit, Dagger2, and other Jetpack libraries.With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver focused 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 constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All of this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match.In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK.More about the role

• You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Kotlin (including coroutines and flows), Retrofit, Dagger2, Coil, Navigation Components, Room, Unit, Mockito, Turbine, and other Jetpack libraries
• You’ll contribute to our product technical roadmap
• Have a passion for learning and utilising the newest android technologies, including Jetpack Compose.
• You’ll lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhances Sainsbury’s capabilities
• Engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning

More about you

• Possess programming language expertise in one or more languages in our ecosystem, such as Android and Kotlin
• Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering and architectural principles
• Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware
• Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
• Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
• You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver

Responsibilities:We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.Qualifications:We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new – whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business – and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you’ll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We’ve also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You’ll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 08:47:29 GMT

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