What’s the role about?

As the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer, E-Commerce is a key part of Our Business - we run two of the busiest websites in the UK, driving a significant proportion of our sales. Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from E-Commerce functionality to Machine Learning.

Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us. We support our Engineers to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies.

This role is known internally as Product Engineer (PL6).

What you’ll be doing?

This is an opportunity to work as a Software Engineer specialising in Android development on a cross-functional Agile development team. You’ll typically be working collaboratively with other highly skilled Android Engineers as well as iOS engineers,  BAs, Testers, Web Designers and User Experience specialists on challenging customer-facing projects.

As a Senior Engineer you will have responsibility for the development approach and provide technical assurance on complex IT projects. You will also use your knowledge of software engineering to support shaping of new projects and support the professional development of less experienced software engineers. You will work with a diverse range of technical and non-technical stakeholders which will require excellent communication skills.

There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you.

Learning new skills is extremely important to us. You would be expected to constantly improve your engineering skills and keep up to date with the latest technologies and techniques. In return for your  commitment you will receive the support and resources needed to achieve your learning goals. 

What you’ll already have:

• Native Mobile Development in Android (Kotlin and Java)

• Knowledge and experience to support and migrate older Java Android code

• Accessibility best practice

• Knowledge of common design patterns such as MVVM, IoC, MVP

• Automation of unit and functional testing of Android applications

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

• TDD, pair programming.

• Trunk, Branching, Code reviews, Pull requests

• Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban

• REST API development and/or consumption

What else you could bring:

• Specific knowledge of MVVM and MVP (this is what is in use atm)

• Postman or similar tools

• Charles/Proxyman or similar tools

• Bitrise/Gitlab CI

• You will be working closely with the iOS development teams, and will also work with our website and microservice teams as such any experience in the following areas may also be helpful, but is not required or expected:

• Swift/iOS

• GraphQL

• Microservice Architectures

• Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as  AWS, GCP or Azure

• Understanding of UX principles

• HTML, CSS, and related web technologies

• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as Reactjs, Redux, Webpack

• Any Server side development languages such as Java

Where will you be working?

We have a blended hybrid approach of working from our offices and a remote UK location. You should plan to be working remotely for approximately 60% of the month. However in practice, time in the office is a decision made within your team, and may mean that you do not come into the office for weeks or months at a time, unless you choose to.