Senior Android Engineer

About The Role:As an Android Software Development Engineer, you’ll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon Tesco’s customer facing Android application. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.You’ll be a passionate, pragmatic Android Software Development Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first. You’ll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and mobile development tooling and technologies you’ll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams.You will be responsible for:We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset. You provide mobile perspective and context for technology choices. You’re up to the challenge of device and mobile network limitations, device fragmentation, and other mobile development curve balls. You are motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with new technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You outline paths from prototype to product. You are a technical leader for your team. You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team.Responsibilities:1. **Architectural Leadership:
- Lead the design and implementation of customer-facing features, contributing to the overall system architecture. - Collaborate with product managers and backend teams to design robust and scalable software solutions.2. **Code & Development:
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance, reusable, and reliable code. - Implement new features in production, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices.3. **Quality Assurance:
- Write unit-test code to ensure robustness, usability, and reliability of the Android applications. - Utilize debugging skills to identify and address memory leaks, performance bottlenecks, and other issues.4. **Technology Exploration:
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize the development process.Skills:- Experience in developing Android applications. Kotlin experience is required. Jetpack Compose would be a plus.- Experience working with the likes of Android SDK, Dagger, Gradle, Hilt or similar.- Strong debugging skills, including identifying memory leaks and performance bottlenecks- Familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, different architectural patterns, and their testability.- Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms.- Understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability.- Experience working in an agile environment and project management tools like Jira.