Android Engineer

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com 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 

As a prospective member of our On-Platform Advertisement team—akin to Google Ads within JET—you will join a dynamic, cross-functional group comprising .NET, web (React/Vue), and iOS specialists. We are currently on the lookout for an Android engineer to enhance our team. Operating across multiple locations, our team is based in offices in London, Bristol, Sofia, Berlin, and Kyiv, offering you the chance to engage in both partner and customer-facing app development.

Your role will be pivotal in fostering communication and collaboration. You will work closely with product owners, delivery managers, UI/UX designers, and both client and server-side engineers. Together, you will brainstorm and implement new features, enhance existing ones, boost performance, streamline platforms, and craft stunning user interfaces for our Android application, which serves our extensive customer base.

Our team operates within the Agile - SCRUM framework, emphasising flexibility, continuous improvement, and high-impact collaboration. We regularly engage in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, which are foundational to our approach in managing projects and driving innovation.

We encourage your professional growth within our company. You will have opportunities to showcase your research findings and innovative ideas. Staying abreast of the latest technologies, you will experiment with new concepts and have the chance to mentor your peers. Your profound knowledge of the Android ecosystem will be crucial in addressing complex technological and architectural challenges 

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from London office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Technology Manager

These are some of the key components to the position: 

Adhere to and help refine the team's standards and processes. Contribute to setting these standards to ensure continuous improvement.

Pursue ongoing personal development by learning from teammates and applying this knowledge to benefit the team and enhance the apps.

Clearly communicate the technical efforts of your team to other engineering groups.

Own the responsibility for your updates from development through to their successful performance in production.

Regularly release updates to the app store (approximately every two weeks) and oversee these changes to ensure they perform well for users.

Play a role in reviewing and approving your team's code changes once automated tests are passed.

Generate and implement creative ideas to improve the apps.

What will you bring to the team?

Proficiency in developing native Android apps using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Experience with integration, unit, and UI tests tailored for Android

Familiarity with architectural patterns such as MVI and MVVM

Strong capability in continuous integration practices and tools for Android environments

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, particularly Git

Skills in writing clean, isolated, and reusable components for software development

Proficient in using RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

Experience in enterprise tools and CI systems used in Android development

Proactivity in sharing and seeking out information

Natural ability for giving and receiving feedback

An understanding of code design for efficiency and readability

Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) is beneficial but not essential

At JET, this is how we play 

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. 

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. 

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.  

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to 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 Takeaway.com. 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. 

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Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now! 

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