Senior Android Engineer

Compass; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass is seeking an experienced Android engineer to help build a platform that makes the home buying or selling experience delightful. You will be a technical leader within your team, collaborating with Product and Design to take ideas to production with high autonomy and ownership.

You will distill product requirements into actionable work, mentor junior engineers, and drive architectural decisions that improve performance, modularity, and operability across services.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin.
• Experience leading projects from planning to release with team mentorship.
• Master CS fundamentals and Android design patterns.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies and RESTful services.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of Android features with autonomy.
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce engineering best practices.
• Perform code reviews and maintain high test coverage.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to shape the roadmap.
• Drive modularization and scalable codebase improvements.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Jetpack Compose

Kotlin Multiplatform

REST APIs

Scrum/Agile

Mentoring

Architecture & Design

Code Review & Testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS in CS or equivalent

Tools

Android Studio

Gradle

Git

CI/CD

Kotlin Compiler

Job description

• We are looking for an experienced Android engineer to help Compass build a platform that makes the home buying or selling experience delightful
• You will be one of the technical leaders in your immediate team
• You will work with other engineers and your Product and Design counterparts to take projects from idea to done with a high degree of autonomy and ownership
• You will be responsible for understanding Product requirements and the customer problems they are aiming to solve, distilling them into manageable subparts that can be divided across other engineers on the project
• During a project’s execution, you will act as a leader ensuring any technical questions and trade offs are considered pragmatically, with a well-reasoned and understood solution being executed upon
• You will guide more junior engineers with technical problems, ensuring that they follow best practices from an engineering and operational excellence perspective
• Your influence won’t end once a project ships: you will be relied upon by Product and Design to give an engineering perspective on how we can iteratively improve a product to better benefit our customers
• Outside of product-driven projects, you will work with other engineers to determine how to push our platform forward, devising engineering-led initiatives that ensure we can work quickly and efficiently while maintaining a high standard of operational excellence
• You will also act as a mentor for more junior engineers, helping them grow from both a technical and career perspective
• Work in a startup-like environment building agile products and services
• Collaborate closely with engineers on your team, engineers on other teams, as well as your product and design counterparts to successfully launch projects which solve real-world customer problems
• Act as a strategic partner to Product and Design, using technical insights to influence the product roadmap and proactively suggesting architectural changes that enable new categories of user experiences
• Guide the team to make technical trade offs necessary to bring product initiatives to fruition, weighing different approaches and arriving to a recommended solution, detailing its pros and cons
• Independently define, decompose, and lead delivery of complex projects, may lead other engineers
• Modularization and Architecture. Architect and lead the transition toward a highly modularized codebase to improve build speeds and team fungibility, ensuring our architecture scales with our growing engineering organization
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, and write high quality tests
• Have a strong stance and advocate for efficient, scalable, and extensible approaches that solve technical problems in a manner that stands the test of time
• Hold yourself and the team to a high standard of code quality and operational rigor, ensuring that code is well-tested, and your systems have appropriate monitoring, alerting, and runbooks implemented
• Become the subject matter expert for one or more services in your domain
• Create clear and concise documentation (diagrams, service descriptions, decisions, runbooks)
• Identify and remove bottlenecks to address inefficiencies in the developer experience
• Oversee and mentor junior engineers on the team, building their technical skills and ensuring that they understand best practices around engineering and operational excellence

Experience leading the development of a project from planning to release, dispatching work among a team, mentoring and guiding junior engineersMaster Computer Science fundamentals and Android design patterns and best practicesExperience with Scrum/Agile development methodologiesExcellent verbal and written communication skillsExperience integrating with RESTful server-side servicesBS in CS or equivalent practical experience9+ years of professional Android development experience using Kotlin and shipping apps to the Play StoreA sheer eye for design and attention to detail, the products you build should not merely be functional but should take in context and anticipate our customer’s needs in a beautiful wayExperience with AI toolsPassion about mentoring and helping more junior engineers to grow3+ years of experience with modern Kotlin development practices, such as Jetpack Compose and Flow. Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is a plus but not mandatoryAbility to collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders to implement solutions which surprise and delight our customers