Software Development Engineer III

As an Android Software Development Engineer, youll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon Tescos customer facing Android application. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.

Youll be a passionate, pragmatic Android Software Development Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first. Youll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and mobile development tooling and technologies youll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams.

You will be responsible for

We love to work with smart people who have a strong sense of ownership and strong engineering mindset. You provide mobile perspective and context for technology choices. Youre up to the challenge of device and mobile network limitations, device fragmentation, and other mobile development curve balls. You are motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with new technologies to rapidly produce prototypes. You outline paths from prototype to product. You are a technical leader for your team. You contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices on your team.

You will need

We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will likely have made open source contributions and have a Github account. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies.

We expect to see some or all of the following:

Experience architecting complex mobile applications

9+ years of commercial software development experience in Java/Kotlin

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Firm understanding of software development principles, capabilities and limitations of mobile platforms

Passion for mobile development. We would love to hear about apps youve developed.

Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API endpoints

Strong experience and understanding of industry standard mobile accessibility

Experience in full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance

Exposure to the DevOps model

Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD

A strong team player with the ability to influence and lead stakeholders when necessary

Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production

Android, Kotlin