Senior Android Engineer

The Inside Job; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Funded healthcare

25 days holiday + birthday

Contributory pension

Flexible benefits package

Employee discount

Wellbeing support

Enhanced family leave

Life assurance

Onsite gym & lunch facilities

EV charging points

Job summary

Gymshark is seeking an experienced Android engineer to lead mobile development from our Solihull HQ. You will deliver high-quality, scalable Android applications, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural alignment and value delivery.

The role is hybrid with a minimum of three days on site. Strong Kotlin and Jetpack Compose skills are essential, with experience in MVVM/Clean Architecture and a customer-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery of Android applications according to the sprint backlog.
• Expert in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Ensure solutions deliver genuine value to users.
• Coordinating and instrumenting the overarching solution design during discovery.
• Performing testing against a given solution before delivery.
• Defining and tracking Engineering/Quality KPIs with the Lead engineer to ensure delivery is class-leading.

Responsibilities

• Lead Android development and mentor junior engineers.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to meet sprint goals and ensure successful sprints.
• Ensure security, financial, commercial and business requirements are considered.
• Demonstrate work to stakeholders with clear, non-technical language.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and process improvements.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Android

Job description

OVERVIEW:

Working in the Mobile Engineering team, this role exists to set the bar for creating quality, scalable digital solutions for Gymshark and its customers, with a focus on the mobile products.

This is a hybrid position, working at our Solihull HQ for a minimum of 3 days per week.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

LEADERSHIP:

• Mentorsnew starters and less Senior team members in the development of their roles
• Coordinatesdesign workshops & ensuring all engineers contribute
• Prepares for situations or discussions in advance where requested
• Takes accountability for their contribution towards the success of a given situation or discussion
• Proactively brings formed decisions to Mobile Leads to reinforce their ideas to ensure they are on the right track
• Steps in to move situations or discussions forward when they start to stall
• Respects the input of people in other roles to their work and conversations
• Actively fosters collaboration with peers in the team in the interest of quality and efficiency
• Considers team goals when prioritising and making decisions
• Makes a point of inviting input from more junior members of the team, and of creating opportunities for them to get involved
• Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions
• Holds themselves accountable for decisions and outcomes
• Identifies and appropriately escalates perceived knowledge gaps of other team members and the team itself
• Actively fosters collaboration with peers across teams in the interest of knowledge-sharing and development

DELIVERY:

• Works collaboratively with Engineering colleagues and Leads to meet sprint goals, and ensure sprints are successful
• Ensures that Security, Financial, Commercial and Business requirementsare considered whendiscoveringand sizing work.
• Insists on understanding customer value in their work
• Ensures tasks are prioritised correctly by making data-led decisions where possible, and by ensuring that dependencies are noted
• Collaborates with product owners to ensure that expectations are managed, delivering as required as well as helping to agree reasonable timescales for delivering on key outcomes
• Takesaccountability for the work meeting Engineering standards and team-level Definitions of Doneand Definitions of Ready
• Identifies the need to collaborate with peers and other teams as necessary to understand and work towards outcomes
• Presents on the work delivered within an iteration to key stakeholders, clearly demoing the value, in language that non-technical stakeholders can understand
• Champions the continuous improvement of the team (including quality, process, teamwork, but not limited to these things) through retrospectives and other appropriate channels
• Breaks stories down effectively, ensuring that stories are small by design and that each story delivers value
• Challenges bloat and scope creep in favour of swift value delivery

CULTURE:

• Confidently opens and leads discussions within the team
• Provides honest and candid feedback when requested, taking care to include constructive criticism
• Openly gives recognition of individuals to the team and peers
• Uses 10% time to increase knowledge and capability in industry-relevant technologies and practices. Demos how 10% time has been used & actively prompts others to use theirs effectively & consistently
• Shares knowledge across teams through suitable channels (blogs, lightning talks, demos, workshops)
• Plays an active and leading role in all Scrum ceremonies in order to drive forward progression in sprints

CRAFT:

• An expert in writing clean and readable Object Oriented code
• Knows the latest and most complex language features and makes the best use of encapsulation and mutability.
• Has mastered the full knowledge of one platform, has a deep understanding of the other
• Owns and maintains the design and implementation of software architecture components by applying SOLID principles
• Utilise Clean Architecture, modularisation, and MVVM to maintain a clean separation of concerns across the codebase
• Drives unit test coverage expectations, creating test doubles, influencing others to adopt / use TDD
• Has a very good understanding of advanced Git commands
• Has a full understanding of CI process and tools
• Good knowledge of external tools which can be used to complete RCA of issues.
• Autonomously creates new documentation for processes, features and best practices
• Collaborates with the Design team in creating and maintaining a design system
• Considers security implications as part of day-to-day work and can address issues raised by a security audit

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• Hands-on delivery ofAndroidapplicationsaccording to the sprint backlog, often involving end-to-end leadership for a given feature or project
• Expert in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Ensure solutions are implemented that deliver genuine value to their users
• Coordinating and instrumenting the overarching solution design, in accordance with architectural vision and development strategy during the discovery phase of new projects
• Performing a suitable degree of testing against a given solution before delivery
• Raising technical constraints & dependencies to the Product Owner to align for the best solutionDefining and tracking Engineering/Quality KPIs in collaboration with the Lead engineer to ensure delivery is consistent and class-leading

Preferred Skills:

• Experience of Kotlin Multi Platform is desirable

Closing Date: 26th May 2026

BELONGING AT GYMSHARK.

Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email [e-mail].

ABOUT US.

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

THE PERKS.

Standard benefits include:

• Performance-based Bonus opportunity
• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme – including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
• EV charge points available

Note: The bonus program and benefits have certain eligibility requirements. Gymshark reserves the right to amend these programs in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.