Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 01 April 2025
Requisition ID: 284845
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.
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.
More about the role:
1. You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Android and Kotlin.
2. You’ll work in a T-shaped way, doing mostly your Android specialism but have the opportunity to drive the overall testing strategy.
3. You’ll contribute to the entire product development lifecycle, from roadmap, to delivery, to potential decommissioning too.
4. You’ll help to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and your product.
5. You’ll lead the design and support of services that enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities.
6. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that highly values empathy and team spirit.
7. You’ll utilise Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming, where appropriate, and provide coaching to more junior engineers on development practices.
8. You’ll work in a lean environment to deliver early and often.
9. You’ll guide, support and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge, ideas & mentorship.
More about you:
1. You possess great expertise in engineering practice, including deep knowledge of engineering and architectural principles.
2. You are an expert in writing great quality Kotlin code for Android.
3. You have proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud services and CI/CD.
4. You’re driven and constantly striving to improve your own knowledge, the team and the division.
5. You’re empathetic and work well with others, and you’re highly collaborative in your ways of working.
6. You are an advocate of agile/lean delivery methodologies.
7. You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle.
8. You keep up to date with industry trends and emerging tech.
9. You excel at both coaching and mentoring other developers around you, and can adapt your style to suit the individual.
10. You can confidently lead complex technical discussions and implementation, and bring the team with you.
As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:
1. Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat.
2. Holiday allowance.
3. Bonus scheme.
4. Pension plan.
5. Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.
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.
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