IT & Software

Senior Android Engineer

Gymshark

Solihull · West Midlands · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role, you lead the Android mobile program to deliver quality, scalable digital experiences for Gymshark and its customers. You work closely with cross-functional teams to align architecture, quality, and delivery against sprint goals. You’ll mentor peers, drive design decisions, and champion continuous improvement. Your impact spans code quality, architecture, and collaboration that accelerates value delivery in a fast-growing company.

Pay / Benefits
  • Performance-based bonus
  • Funded healthcare
  • 25 days holiday + birthday and holidays
  • Contributory pension
  • Flexible benefits including EV and tech schemes
  • Employee discount and long service awards
Responsibilities
  • Mentor new starters and junior teammates, guiding their growth
  • Coordinate design workshops and ensure engineering contributions align
  • Prepare for discussions and take accountability for outcomes
  • Bring decisions to Mobile Leads and push discussions forward
  • Foster collaboration and value-driven decision-making within the team
  • Invite input from junior members and create meaningful opportunities for involvement
  • Work with peers across teams for knowledge sharing and better outcomes
  • Deliver with engineering standards, DoR/DoD, and data-led prioritisation
  • Demo completed work to stakeholders in accessible language
  • Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and process enhancements
  • Break down stories into small, valuable increments and curb scope creep
  • Lead discussions confidently and provide candid feedback
  • Utilise 10% time to enhance industry-relevant knowledge and share learnings
  • Contribute to and maintain a design system with Design team
  • Consider security implications in daily work and respond to audits
Key requirements
  • Hands-on Android delivery in sprints with end-to-end feature leadership
  • Expert in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
  • Delivers user-value-driven solutions
  • Architectural oversight during discovery and solution design
  • Ability to perform sufficient testing before delivery
  • Raising constraints and dependencies to Product Owner for optimal outcomes
  • Defining and tracking Engineering/Quality KPIs with Lead engineer
  • Collaborative and open to input from others
  • Strong communication for non-technical stakeholders
  • Accountability and bias awareness in decision-making
  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Android app development

Reference: WJ-747_30141569

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