Senior Android Engineer

Our Ways of Working Principles:

We believe that most of us do our best work when we work together, but we know that everyone works in different ways, and quite frankly, has other commitments and responsibilities outside of work.

As we further adjust to hybrid working, we want to take what we've learnt from working remotely and keep the flexibility that's enabled us to thrive and keep driving our business forward.

We have some core principles which support us in this:

Do what’s right

Trust & give permission

Delivery matters

We understand ways of working can look different based on your role, team and you as an individual so we are here to support and discuss this with you during the interview process.

Work with us

At Moonpig Group our mission is to help people connect and create moments that matter. We’re an international group made up of three brilliant brands – Moonpig in the UK, Ireland, US and Australia, and Greetz in the Netherlands – with our newest addition Buyagift joining us in 2022.

We were founded with a goal to disrupt the traditional greetings industry. Two decades on, we’re an established leader within the online gifting market, offering a wide range of products to customers across the world.

Moonpig is an iconic brand and innovator, with clear values (read more about our values here!). These values set our teams and our business up for success in an environment that’s fun, supportive and challenging. They’re the glue that binds us together and we think of them as a platform to help us deliver our best work. You have every chance to drive impact here at Moonpig, and most importantly, we genuinely want you!Our architecture is built for scale and flexibility which will allow us to quickly innovate and launch new propositions - coupling that with the wealth of data we have on our customers, the sky's the limit in the world of experimenting with cutting edge ideas.

About the Mobile Android Team

Together, we foster an environment of idea sharing and mutual support, effectively capturing requirements and refining user experiences. Our decision-making is data-driven, with a strong reliance on A/B testing and user feedback to steer our future actions. As a cohesive unit, we take full ownership of every stage in the software development lifecycle, emphasizing teamwork and celebrating collective achievements over individual accomplishments.

About the role

We are looking for someone to join our Mobile Android team as a Senior Android Engineer and embark on a journey of innovation and creativity. In this position, you'll be integral to a collaborative team dedicated to improving the native Android user experience. In this role, you’ll play an important part in implementing new features and building moments of delight for our users with beautiful user interfaces, working seamlessly with product, UX, and the rest of the engineering team to help achieve our goals and deliver for our customers. In addition to delivering key growth work, you’ll also be looking for ways we can improve the Android technical landscape and our ways of working to ensure we’re always delivering value in the best way possible.

About You:

• Committed to writing clean, testable code and enjoy TDD and collaborative programming practices
• Bring a strong sense of what good architecture looks like and can take responsibility for the long-term health of the app codebase.
• Are comfortable owning large pieces of work, whether that be a new flagship feature or a difficult architectural refactoring.
• Can identify opportunities to collaborate with engineers outside of your team and advocate for best engineering practices with the native apps in mind
• Have a solid understanding of reactive programming concepts with RxJava and/or Coroutines.
• Comfortable communicating with stakeholders and colleagues from across the business, providing clarity on technical topics and adjusting your style to suit your audience.
• Understands the responsibility of acting as a mentor to other engineers, guiding them as they develop their skill set and progress their careers.
• You contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by challenging constructively and driving positive change in team processes and technical landscape.

Our Tech:

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• RxJava/Coroutines
• GraphQL
• GitHub (SCM and CI/CD)
• Firebase / Google Analytics

How we get there:

• Kanban
• MVI
• Clean Architecture
• TDD
• Programming

Our Expectations of our Senior Engineers

• Good engineering comes first - You’ll have a great technical knowledge base and the experience to know what works and what doesn’t. We expect you to apply these skills in making the right decisions and applying best practices wherever possible.
• Technical mentoring and leadership - You’ll be collaborative, inclusive, and spread knowledge wherever possible. People will be looking up to you for technical guidance and part of your role will be to help them on that journey. You will also be responsible for creating the right forums to drive engineering principles and practices across all of engineering. You have the autonomy to drive decisions, but it’s your responsibility to ensure everyone is involved.
• Culture and advocacy - You will be supporting a growth culture (e.g. running lunch & learns, brown bags, etc.) as well as advocating the organisation externally through meetups, blogging, hackathons etc. This is important to us as we are all in this together.

Want to hear more? 

Find out more about Moonpig Group and what it has to offer here!

Moonpig’s Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity 

At Moonpig Group, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and caring culture with brilliant people who feel a real sense of belonging. We welcome and celebrate all diverse backgrounds to Moonpig Group, from working parents who need flexibility with their hours to individuals who are neurodiverse and prefer to work a certain way.

We’re proud to have several employee-led committees within our organisation, including the LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity and our EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) Committees.

We’ll continue to push for diversity and that sense of belonging so that all Moonpig Group employees feel safe and comfortable to be their true authentic self at work.