Senior Android Platform Engineer - Design Systems

Tesco UK; Digswell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Learning opportunities

Learning culture

Varied projects

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance the Digital Design System (DDS) implementation for Android. You will build reusable UI components, improve tooling and documentation, and support consuming teams across Tesco’s digital estate.

You’ll collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and DDS peers to ensure consistent, scalable Android experiences, while mentoring and driving high-quality delivery and onboarding improvements.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and evolve Tesco DDS platform components for Android, with clear APIs, strong test coverage, accessibility support, and release discipline.
• 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.
• 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.

Job description

Tesco is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to advance the Digital Design System (DDS) implementation for Android. You will build reusable UI components, improve tooling and documentation, and support consuming teams across Tesco’s digital estate.

You’ll collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and DDS peers to ensure consistent, scalable Android experiences, while mentoring and driving high-quality delivery and onboarding improvements.