Senior Android Engineer — Hybrid Role with AI Tools

John Lewis Partnership; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

John Lewis Partnership in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead Android development within a cross-functional Agile team. You will collaborate with iOS engineers, analysts, and designers on customer-facing projects, delivering high-quality mobile solutions.

You will shape development strategy, provide technical assurance on complex IT projects, and support continuous learning and adoption of new technologies.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Native Mobile Development in Android (Kotlin and Java).
• Accessibility best practice.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with generative AI tools and techniques to enhance development and productivity.
• Experience with Kotlin Multi Platform (KMP).
• Demonstrable experience in TDD, pair programming.
• Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban.
• REST API development and/or consumption.
• Deep understanding of MVVM and MVP.

Responsibilities

• You will work as a senior software engineer specialising in Android development within a cross-functional Agile development team.
• You’ll be working collaboratively with other Android Engineers as well as iOS engineers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, Designers and UX specialists on customer-facing projects.
• You will have responsibility for development approach, provide technical assurance on complex IT projects and support shaping of new projects.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Java

CI/CD

TDD

Agile/Scrum

MVVM/MVP

AI tools for development

Tools

Postman

Charles/Proxyman

Bitrise/Gitlab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

John Lewis Partnership in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead Android development within a cross-functional Agile team. You will collaborate with iOS engineers, analysts, and designers on customer-facing projects, delivering high-quality mobile solutions.

You will shape development strategy, provide technical assurance on complex IT projects, and support continuous learning and adoption of new technologies.