Senior Android Mobile Engineer

Gymshark; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fitness technology company in Solihull is seeking a Senior Engineer to develop innovative mobile applications. The role offers a hybrid working model, where the candidate will work collaboratively with engineering teams, focusing on Kotlin for Android solutions. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in mobile solutions delivery and a passion for continuous improvement. Join us to push technical boundaries in lifestyle and fitness.

Benefits

Competitive bonus

Private medical insurance or healthcare cash plan

25 days holiday plus birthday and bank holidays

Flexible working culture

Employer pension contributions up to 7%

Life assurance

50% Gymshark discount

Generous family leave package

Free monthly massages

On-site parking

Qualifications

• Proven ability to ensure solutions deliver genuine value to users.
• Experience coordinating solution designs during project discovery phases.
• Ability to define and track engineering KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Creating scalable digital solutions for mobile products.
• Developing features in the Android app using Kotlin.
• Collaborating with colleagues on successful sprint goals.
• Championing continuous team improvement.

Skills

Mobile solutions delivery

Kotlin

Database building

Solution implementation

Testing solutions

Engineering/Quality KPIs tracking

Job description

OVERVIEW:

Gymshark Engineering is rapidly expanding, you could be our next Developer! Do you consider yourself an exceptional Android Developer? We’re looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team and work on innovative cross functional applications that serve our global customer base.

Do you have a passion for feeling good and being your best version of yourself? Do you want to push technical boundaries that contributes to lifestyle and fitness? Are you overflowing with ideas that you’d love to share and bring to life? Perhaps you enjoy practicing knowledge transfer and collaboration?

Gymshark is the place for you.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Creating quality, scalable digital solutions for Gymshark and its customers, with a focus on the mobile products
• Utilising your knowledge and experience with Kotlin to develop and create features and functionality in Android app
• Working collaboratively with Engineering colleagues to meet sprint goals, and ensure sprints are successful
• Collaborating with the Delivery Team to ensure that features and products are delivered on time and as planned
• Setting engineering standards and spear heading team-level Definitions of Done
• Presenting on the work delivered within an iteration to key stakeholders, clearly demoing the value in language that non-technical stakeholders can understand
• Championing the continuous improvement of the team
• Championing continuous improvement

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential Criteria:

• Active delivery of Mobile solutions
• Competent in Android coding languages; Kotlin
• Ability to build database through enhancement, installation and optimisation
• Proven ability to 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
• Defining and tracking Engineering/Quality KPIs in collaboration with the Lead engineer to ensure delivery is consistent and class-leading

PLEASE NOTE: This is a hybrid role and would require the successful candidate to attend at least 3 days a week in GSHQ, Solihull, UK.

CLOSING DATE: Friday 19th July 2024

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.

Competitive ‘Win Together, Lose Together’ Bonus
???? Choice of Private Medical Insurance or Healthcare Cash Plan, paid for by us!
25 days holidays + your birthday and all the Bank Holidays which can be substituted and taken whenever you want.
A truly Flexible Working Culture
A collaborative, creative and inspiring working environment
Employer pension contributions up to 7%
Life Assurance at four times your basic salary
50% Gymshark Discount
Gymshark Gift Card for each year of service
Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
Great Training and Learning Resources
Choice of hardware and access to the best software
Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
Very Generous Family Leave package – we support you extending your family
Refuel - Healthy fresh food at GSHQ
️️ Lifting Club (LC) Gym Membership
Free monthly massages
Beauty and Barber facilities
Free on-site parking

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