Kotlin/ Android Developer

hackajob is collaborating with Tesco to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

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 handhelddevice 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 storesacross 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 ourRetail 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!

You will be responsible for

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 intoimprovements in the product

You will need

Experience with Kotlin and/or Java

Experience working in a collaborative team

A background in Android development (ideally)