Android Engineer

At Ocado Technology, we're an ambitious global company completely transforming the way the world shops with our cutting-edge AI, ML, and robotic technology. With our retail partners spanning the globe, there's a huge amount of growth and opportunity.

The e-commerce stream plays a key role in offering frictionless, convenient, and hyper-personalised shopping experiences for millions of global users across multiple platforms, in different regions, languages, currencies, and more.

Based in our Barcelona office in the heart of the 22@ hub, this amazing community of 27+ nationalities offers an unparalleled culture focused on growth and learning.

The Acquisition cluster in the Order department is part of E-commerce. Armed with a mission to provide a world-class platform that helps bring quality traffic onto OSP, convert visitors into shoppers by fulfilling their needs and expectations, and build shopping habits that encourage customer loyalty and engagement.

As an Android software engineer you will participate in the development of our customer-facing, native Android app, to be used by millions of people all over the world. Each team is cross-functional; comprising Android, iOS, web and backend-focused engineers, working together to deliver features to a high standard.

Mobile engineers work closely with web engineers, backend engineers, Product Managers and UX to ensure feature parity and a consistently high-quality experience across all platforms. Teams leverage industry best-practices like continuous delivery and extensive automated testing, and are given the autonomy to try out new technologies and techniques that support our business and long-term goals. You will work in a modularised project that is continuously improved by every developer. 

You will be given autonomy in how you approach complex problems and will be encouraged to research and seek out innovative solutions. 

Deliver for Today

• Work with your team to deliver valuable contributions of high quality, in the timescales agreed by your team.
• Contribute to the full delivery lifecycle, from idea generation to value validation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce wasted effort.
• Use analysis and diagnostic tools to monitor the operation of your product and be able to communicate your findings.
• Help to build clarity on technical strategy and support its implementation.

Design for Future

• Take into account the business, technical and economic context when making design decisions.
• Look for multiple ways to solve problems and communicate effectively the benefits and drawbacks of each.
• Support other teams to find ways to solve their problems.
• Guide design activities and communicate outcomes effectively.

Execute with Quality

• Ensure that your department’s practices are informed by industry best practice.
• Identify and mitigate risks to delivery, including consistent application of high quality testing.
• Champion security awareness across your department. Implement or direct security related work at the team level as appropriate.
• Make sure your Product’s implementation can be diagnostically analysed, where practical, building in observability, in order to resolve faults and be maintainable.

Leading & Influencing

• Contribute to discussion and influence technical direction.
• Apply good strategic judgement in architectural decision making.
• Share your knowledge and learn from others.
• Help to develop other engineers around you into more capable and experienced people.
• Collaborate with your team to understand the shoppers’ needs and find ways to meet them.

Support

• Deliver solutions to ongoing support queries.
• Reduce manual support through process and/or Product improvement.

Essential

• Strong programming and technical design abilities.
• Extensive experience in the Android environment, developing high-quality applications.
• Proven track record of building production apps using Kotlin.
• Commitment to writing clean, polished, and fully-tested code.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences.
• Prioritize accessibility as a key component in user experience design.
• Excellent collaboration skills for working effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Eager to share knowledge and learn from others to continually expand expertise.

Desirable

• Experience in designing APIs.

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