Senior Android Engineer

The Tech Stack: our ecosystem is 98% Kotlin-based, with a strong commitment to Jetpack Compose, modular project structures, and Clean Architecture principles. What will you actually do?

• Technical Strategy Leadership: Lead the architectural direction and execution of sophisticated features, ensuring every component is scalable and production-ready.

• System Architecture: Engineer resilient solutions for intricate challenges such as background location services, offline data sync, and intelligent routing within Android constraints.

• Engineering Excellence Champion: Identify technical debt early, optimize our multi-module framework, and enhance the development lifecycle through CI/CD and automation.

• Team Elevation: Mentor fellow engineers through coaching and rigorous code reviews, fostering a culture of collaborative knowledge exchange.

• Product Influence: Partner with Product Managers and backend guilds to shape the technical roadmap in alignment with long-term organizational objectives.

• Technical Ownership: Manage the full lifecycle of features, from defining Microservice API contracts to the final UI implementation.

• Problem Solving: Resolve complex engineering hurdles involving background services, data synchronization, and dynamic pathfinding.

• Operational Growth: Drive peer reviews and assist the team in optimizing build performance and CI/CD efficiency. These are some of the key components to the position:

• Product Definition: Collaborate with engineering teams and Product Managers in workshops to contribute significantly to defining new product features.

• Technical Ownership: Consistently deliver high-quality software that meets team best practices and expectations.

• Project Management: Take complete ownership of components you develop, managing timelines and transparently communicating progress towards wider team and organizational goals.

• Cross-Functional Communication: Share your progress and ideas with your team, and contribute to the growth of the iOS guild by sharing new development practices, patterns, and standards.

• Inner Source Model Support: As a Trusted Committer , you'll play a vital role in supporting contributing teams to integrate their features into our codebase.

• Core Competencies: Extensive professional mastery of Kotlin alongside advanced proficiency in Jetpack Compose UI development.
• Architectural Expertise: Comprehensive command of Android structural patterns, including multi-module environments, Dependency Injection, and MVVM principles.
• System Mastery: Expert-level capability in navigating OS-level hurdles such as background service persistence and sophisticated battery optimization strategies.
• Distributed Systems: Demonstrated success interfacing with backend APIs within microservice frameworks, emphasizing the creation of isolated, modular software components.
• Craftsmanship: A dedicated focus on high-quality code design that values operational performance as much as long-term maintainability.
• Technical Leadership: Self-sufficient driver capable of owning the end-to-end execution of vital technical roadmaps within specific workstreams.
• Collaborative Mindset: Enthusiasm for team-based engineering practices, including pair programming, thorough peer reviews, and active mentorship.
• Agility: Thrives in high-velocity, evolving environments where rapid scaling and innovation are the standard.
• Effective Communication: Exceptional verbal and written fluency in the English language.

Then Just Eat might be the place for you. We're a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe. About this role By joining our ranks, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the mobile experience for our global network of couriers! We are searching for proactive individuals with a keen interest in mastering our systems to deliver sophisticated, high-impact solutions., At JET, this is on the menu: Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition. Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging: No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat We're committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day. What else are we delivering? Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.