Golang Job: Senior Engineer

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.

We don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the country. And from the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing shopping experience – like our award-winning Smartshop app. 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.

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, mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

You’ll lead the design and development of large-scale high performance app using technologies such as Kotlin and the latest Jetpack frameworks
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, such as Golang
You’ll contribute to the entire product development lifecycle, from roadmap, to delivery, to potential decommissioning too
You’ll help to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and your product
You’ll be part of a collaborative team that highly values empathy and team spirit
You’ll work to develop a highly tested and well architected projects
You’ll guide, support, and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge, ideas & mentorship

More about you

You are an expert in writing great quality Kotlin code with Strong knowledge of architectural patterns (MVVM, Clean architectural) and modern Android development
You have proven experience of software design and implementation, testing, security, and CI/CD
You’re driven and constantly striving to improve your own knowledge, the team, and the division
You’re empathetic and work well with others, and you’re highly collaborative in your ways of working
You have experience with agile delivery methodologies.
You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle
You keep up to date with industry trends and emerging tech
You excel at both coaching and mentoring other developers around you, and can adapt your style to suit the individual

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat
Holiday allowance
Bonus scheme
Pension plan
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.