Android Developer

Android Developer About the role

Tesco’s Scan As You Shop service is an in‑store experience that lets customers build their basket on a handheld device during their shopping journey so that they can keep a close eye on their budget and skip the queues atcheckout. Since late 2021, we’ve brought the soluti on enti rely in house, and we’re now live in over 800 stores across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with plans to move into Central Europe this year.

The engineering team owns the handset applicati on, which is built on Android OS and consumes data from our Retail Platf orm enterprise APIs, as well as a few diff erent technology components that support the soluti on. All the engineers in the team ulti mately take ownership of both the frontend and backend systems in our remit.

We’re looking for a new team member, preferably with a background in Android development, that can help usevolve and scale our systems as we navigate a wide range of challenges in the context of store technology.

We’re a friendly team that takes collaboration and agility seriously, looking for the right person to help us move into an exciting new chapter!

• Developing high‑quality code that can lead to rapid delivery, following standard methodologies for continuous integration and delivery
• Supporting production systems, resolving incidents, and performing root cause analysis
• Leading discussions on the design of the system and understanding the domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value
• Working efficiently with partners across the organisation to communicate and translate business needs into improvements in the product

• Experience with Kotlin and/or Java
• Experience working in a collaborative team
• A background in Android development (ideally)