Senior Android Engineer

Location: Hybrid; primarily working from home in the UK and London or Bracknell offices, with office attendance roughly once a week and additional visits as required.

Salary: £52,000–£77,000 per year. Additional night premium of £5.25 per hour applies to work between 22:00 and 06:00.

Company

hirify.global is the UK’s largest employee-owned business, operating the John Lewis and Waitrose retail brands and investing in omnichannel ecommerce, mobile applications, cloud platforms, and machine learning.

What you will do

• Develop customer-facing Android applications as a senior software engineer within a cross-functional Agile team.
• Define development approaches and provide technical assurance for complex IT projects.
• Collaborate with Android and iOS engineers, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, Designers, and User Experience specialists.
• Help shape new projects and support the professional development of less experienced software engineers.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders and continuously improve engineering skills and practices.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in native Android mobile development using Kotlin and Java.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with generative AI tools and techniques for development and productivity.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform, TDD, and pair programming.
• Experience with Agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience developing and/or consuming REST APIs.
• Deep understanding of MVVM and MVP.

Nice to have

• Postman or similar tools; Charles, Proxyman, or similar tools.
• Bitrise or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Swift/iOS, GraphQL, microservice architectures, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Understanding of UX principles, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling such as React, Redux, and Webpack.
• Server-side development experience with Java or Kotlin.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent contract with 35 hours per week.
• Hybrid working with home working in the UK and regular office collaboration.
• Support and resources for ongoing learning and professional development.
• Employee-owned Partnership with shared responsibility, inclusive working practices, and support for work-life balance.
• Flexible or compressed hours, job sharing, and shorter-hour contracts may be available where possible.
• Some roles may require pre-employment vetting, including DBS or financial probity checks.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV followed by application questions.
• Successful applicants proceed through a recruiter screening call, technical assessment, and two interview rounds.
• Applicants can request adjustments to support the recruitment process.