Senior Android Engineer

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food delivery platform in London is seeking a Senior Android Engineer. This role focuses on building new functionalities within a cross-functional team, requiring extensive experience with Kotlin and strong collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Android architecture and a passion for innovation, contributing to an inclusive culture that values diversity.

Benefits

Supportive culture

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Kotlin, including integration and unit testing.
• Proven experience integrating with server-side APIs.
• Strong understanding of Android architecture and Dependency Injection.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams and Product Managers to define product features.
• Deliver high-quality software that meets team expectations.
• Manage timelines and communicate progress transparently.

Skills

Kotlin

Microservices architecture

Android architecture

Jetpack Compose

CI/CD pipelines

Agile methodology

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

As a Senior Android Engineer in the Retail Operational Excellence domain, you will join a dynamic polyglot team primarily focused on building new functionalities as part of the wider Grocery and Retail domain, comprising several cross-functional teams. You will be collaborating with multiple product and engineering teams around the world, to help unlock new opportunities for customers and partners to improve their experience when ordering groceries.

Your role will be pivotal in fostering communication and collaboration. You will work closely with product owners, front-end engineers on web and mobile, as well as other backend engineers. Together, you will design and implement new features, enhance existing ones, boost performance, streamline platforms, and develop robust and scalable backend solutions that serve our extensive customer base.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Product Definition: Collaborate with engineering teams and Product Managers in workshops to contribute significantly to defining new product features.
• Technical Ownership: Consistently deliver high-quality software that meets team best practices and expectations.
• Project Management: Take complete ownership of components you develop, managing timelines and transparently communicating progress towards wider team and organizational goals.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Share your progress and ideas with your team, and contribute to the growth of the Android guild by sharing new development practices, patterns, and standards.
• Inner Source Model Contributions: As a Trusted Contributor, you'll play a vital role in contributing to other teams’ repos to integrate new features into their codebase.

What will you bring to the table?

We're looking for a collaborative, proactive, flexible, and detail-oriented individual with a passion for innovation. Your technical toolkit should include:

• Extensive experience with Kotlin, including integration and unit testing.
• Proven experience integrating with server-side APIs within a Microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding and experience with Android architecture (multi-modules, Dependency Injection, MVVM).
• Proficiency in building user interfaces with Jetpack Compose.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• A solid understanding of developing software using isolated and reusable components.
• A keen eye for code design, prioritising efficiency and readability.
• Knowledge and experience with experimentation and A/B testing.
• Comfortable working within an Agile methodology.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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