Senior Android Engineer

Salary: £54,000 - 57,000 per year

Requirements:

• Hands-on delivery of Android applications according to the sprint backlog, often involving end-to-end leadership for a given feature or project
• Expert in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Ensure solutions are implemented that deliver genuine value to our users
• Coordinate and instrument the overarching solution design in accordance with architectural vision and development strategy during the discovery phase of new projects
• Perform a suitable degree of testing against a given solution before delivery
• Raise technical constraints and dependencies to the Product Owner to align for the best solution
• Define and track Engineering and Quality KPIs in collaboration with the Lead Engineer to ensure delivery is consistent and class-leading
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Mentor new starters and less senior team members in the development of their roles
• Coordinate design workshops and ensure all engineers contribute
• Prepare for situations or discussions in advance where requested
• Take accountability for your contribution towards the success of a given situation or discussion
• Proactively bring formed decisions to Mobile Leads to reinforce ideas and ensure alignment
• Step in to move situations or discussions forward when they start to stall
• Respect the input of people in other roles in your work and conversations
• Actively foster collaboration with peers in the team in the interest of quality and efficiency
• Consider team goals when prioritising and making decisions
• Invite input from more junior members of the team and create opportunities for them to get involved
• Strive to be objective and reflect on your own biases when making decisions
• Hold yourself accountable for decisions and outcomes
• Identify and appropriately escalate perceived knowledge gaps of other team members and the team itself
• Actively foster collaboration with peers across teams in the interest of knowledge-sharing and development
• Work collaboratively with Engineering colleagues and Leads to meet sprint goals and ensure sprints are successful
• Ensure that Security, Financial, Commercial and Business requirements are considered when discovering and sizing work
• Insist on understanding customer value in your work
• Ensure tasks are prioritised correctly by making data-led decisions where possible and by ensuring that dependencies are noted
• Collaborate with product owners to ensure expectations are managed, delivering as required and helping to agree reasonable timescales for key outcomes
• Take accountability for work meeting Engineering standards and team-level Definitions of Done and Definitions of Ready
• Identify the need to collaborate with peers and other teams as necessary to understand and work towards outcomes
• Present on the work delivered within an iteration to key stakeholders, clearly demoing the value in language that non-technical stakeholders can understand
• Champion the continuous improvement of the team through retrospectives and other appropriate channels
• Break stories down effectively, ensuring stories are small by design and each story delivers value
• Challenge bloat and scope creep in favour of swift value delivery
• Confidently open and lead discussions within the team
• Provide honest and candid feedback when requested, taking care to include constructive criticism
• Openly give recognition of individuals to the team and peers
• Use 10% time to increase knowledge and capability in industry-relevant technologies and practices, and demo how it has been used
• Actively prompt others to use their 10% time effectively and consistently
• Share knowledge across teams through blogs, lightning talks, demos, and workshops
• Play an active and leading role in all Scrum ceremonies in order to drive forward progression in sprints
• Write clean and readable object-oriented code
• Use the latest and most complex language features, making the best use of encapsulation and mutability
• Have mastered the full knowledge of one platform and have a deep understanding of the other
• Own and maintain the design and implementation of software architecture components by applying SOLID principles
• Use Clean Architecture, modularisation, and MVVM to maintain a clean separation of concerns across the codebase
• Drive unit test coverage expectations, create test doubles, and influence others to adopt and use TDD
• Have a very good understanding of advanced Git commands
• Have a full understanding of CI processes and tools
• Have good knowledge of external tools that can be used to complete RCA of issues
• Autonomously create new documentation for processes, features, and best practices
• Collaborate with the Design team in creating and maintaining a design system
• Consider security implications as part of day-to-day work and address issues raised by a security audit

Technologies:

• Android
• Git
• Support
• Kotlin
• LESS
• Mobile
• MVVM
• Product Owner
• Security
• Swift
• TDD

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We are hiring for our Mobile Engineering team to set the bar for creating quality, scalable digital solutions for Gymshark and our customers, with a focus on mobile products. This is a hybrid position based at our Solihull HQ for a minimum of 3 days per week. We are committed to belonging and inclusion, and we are an equal opportunities employer that strives to be inclusive in all aspects of employment and to provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. We are here to unite the conditioning community and give people the tools they need to go further, go faster, and be stronger. Our team is growing rapidly around the world, and we offer a range of perks including performance-based bonus opportunity, funded healthcare, 25 days holiday plus your birthday and bank holidays, pension, flexible benefits, employee discount, wellbeing support, enhanced family leave, life assurance, and office-location-specific benefits such as gym membership, onsite lunch provision, coffee bars, and EV charge points.

last updated 36 week of 2026