As a Senior Engineer (Android), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, applying architectural and engineering principles to define and deliver technology that will better customer experiences, improve efficiency and reduce business costs, helping us to lower prices. With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver outcomes that support our customers.
We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer-centric mindset and a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, and mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.
We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All of this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match.
In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK.
More about the role
1. You’ll guide, support, and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge, ideas & mentorship
2. You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance app using technologies such as Kotlin and the latest Jetpack frameworks
3. Develop within a codebase utilising technologies such as Kotlin (including coroutines and flows), Retrofit, Dagger2, Coil, Navigation Components, Room, Unit, Mockito, Turbine, and other Jetpack libraries
4. Have a passion for learning and utilising the newest android technologies, including Jetpack Compose.
5. You’ll work in a cross-platform team, working on our Android app but have the opportunity to learn and work with our other technologies
6. You’ll contribute to the entire product development lifecycle, from roadmap, to delivery, to potential decommissioning too
7. You’ll help to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and your product
8. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that highly values empathy and team spirit
9. You’ll work to develop a highly tested and well architected projects
More about you
10. You excel at both coaching and mentoring other developers around you, and can adapt your style to suit the individual
11. You are an expert in writing great quality Kotlin code with Strong knowledge of architectural patterns (MVVM, Clean architectural) and modern Android development
12. You have proven experience of software design and implementation, testing, security, and CI/CD
13. You’re driven and constantly striving to improve your own knowledge, the team, and the division
14. You’re empathetic and work well with others, and you’re highly collaborative in your ways of working
15. You have experience with agile delivery methodologies.
16. You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle
17. You keep up to date with industry trends and emerging tech
As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:
18. Colleague discount across our multi-brands
19. Time allowed within work hours for personal development
20. Holiday allowance
21. Bonus scheme
22. Pension plan
23. Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).