Senior Android Platform Engineer - DDS UI Foundations

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Learning opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

Tesco Senior Android Engineer needed to help evolve Tesco’s DDS for Android, building reusable UI foundations and clear APIs. You’ll work with design, accessibility, product engineering, and DDS peers to ensure consistency and scalable implementations across platforms.

You’ll translate design intents into production components, improve tooling and documentation, support teams on migration and onboarding, and maintain high test coverage with strong accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Translate DDS design intent, tokens, component states, and interaction guidance into production-ready Android implementation.
• Improve developer experience for consuming teams through documentation, examples, onboarding, contribution guidance, support, and migration tooling.
• Collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and platform peers to keep DDS implementation aligned across iOS, Android, React Native, and Web.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly where they improve quality, speed, consistency, or developer self-service.
• Help make DDS documentation and component metadata more useful to humans and AI agents through MCP-ready context, examples, and clear constraints.
• Lead through senior engineering craft: architectural judgment, code review, mentoring, pragmatic delivery, technical clarity, and high-quality communication.
• Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly
• Learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
• Varied and exciting projects to play a part in - there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Design systems

Accessibility

Job description

Tesco Senior Android Engineer needed to help evolve Tesco’s DDS for Android, building reusable UI foundations and clear APIs. You’ll work with design, accessibility, product engineering, and DDS peers to ensure consistency and scalable implementations across platforms.

You’ll translate design intents into production components, improve tooling and documentation, support teams on migration and onboarding, and maintain high test coverage with strong accessibility.