engineer London, England
Job description
As an Engineer (Android), you'll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating trameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions.
In the role, you'll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Kotlin (including coroutines and flows), Retrofit, Dagger, and other Jetpack libraries.
With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you'll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver focused outcomes that support our customers. we use a varietv of tech here and vou need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques.
We'd also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You'll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in vour team. contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.
We're a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK's largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All of this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match.
In an inclusive, agile environment, you'll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you'll get to see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK.
More about the role
- You'll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Kotlin (Including coroutines and flows), Retrofit, Dagger, Coil, Navigation components. Room. Unit. Mockito. urbine. and other Jetpack libraries
- You contribute to our product technical roadmap
- Have a passion for learning and utilising the newest android technologies, including Jetpack Compose.
- You'll lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhances Sainsbury's capabilities
- Engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning
More about you
- Possess programming language expertise in one or more languages in our ecosystem, such as Android and Kotlin
- Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering and architectural principles
- Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware
- SEIT-drive and constantly striving to improve vour team, division and peers
- Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
- A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles
- A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech
- Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver
As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you'll get:
- Colleague discount across our multi-brands - Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
