Senior Developer (Android)

Every day, we push beyond expectations to help millions of people save money, at a time when it’s never mattered more. Through MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Quidco and our B2B partnerships we supply products to more than 24 million unique monthly visitors, helping UK households to save billions of pounds a year. Can you tell this is something we’re exceptionally proud of!

Creative, collaborative, ambitious – it’s hard work. But what makes it worth it? Leaving work knowing we’ve made a difference to our customers, users, and to each other.

Put our distinct brands together with our dedicated colleagues and you’ve got a workplace with lots of personality. We’re open-minded, diverse, and love our differences. Everyone plays a part, and comes together to work hard, go beyond, and make sure everyone feels they belong.

Our Technology team is growing, and we're hiring for a Senior Android Developer who can join our mobile engineering collective. Join us to start going beyond comparison.

Insight into the role

Our Android Developers use their creativity and knowledge of user facing technology and passion high-quality execution to inspire everyone they work with to deliver a world class experience to our customers.

Our services are built by highly collaborative teams, jam packed with hard-working product managers, designers and engineers constantly striving for ways to innovate our services and improve our technology platforms and practices. We love pairing, mobbing, TDD, automating, releasing to production multiple times a day via our highly automated build pipelines and everyone working in a collaborative environment.

How You'll Spend Your Day

• Work hands-on through all stages of delivery lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment and maintenance.
• Lead the delivery of features and functionality in your team.
• Facilitate collaboration across the team to analyse and break down complex problems.
• Provide input into the technical strategy for your team.
• Promote best practices and effective ways of working, such as pair and mob programming.
• Encourage security development practices by making sure initiatives are built with security in mind from the start.
• Manage and contribute to maintenance and operational requirements, such as technical debt & maintaining sensible levels of documentation.
• Identify areas for improvement and proactively help drive these initiatives to benefit both the mobile team and wider engineering teams
• Develop and implement new features that deliver value to customers, helping them save money and enhance their experience.
• Collaborate with product and design teams, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation that matches design specs.
• Write clean, maintainable code, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability in a fast-paced environment.
• Debug and fix issues identified by QA or customers, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Review pull requests from other team members, offering feedback and maintaining code quality.
• Stay up to date with the latest Android development trends and contribute to continuous improvement of the codebase.
• With support from your Engineering Manager, identify and pursue opportunities to grow and develop your career.

What value you'll bring to the role

• We’re looking for proven experience in building applications for Android devices with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Good understanding of mobile architecture
• A passion for agile development - we love to ship and deliver value as quickly as possible.
• Focused on delivering high-quality, bug-free code through the use of Espresso frameworks
• Expertise in branching, merging and maintaining a clean, stable codebase through Git and version control
• A good handle on industry standard design principles and patterns

Why switch to us

• Dedicated time for learning & people regularly attend conferences and events

• We're a hybrid organisation, spending 2-days per week in the office to get the best of team collaboration and allowing you to work where you see best.
• Loads of team activities – hack days, social events and community get-togethers. We also bring everyone across all of Product & Technology together at least once a year
• Grow your career with us, supported by our career progression framework as well as having regular opportunities to move around
• An approach to hybrid working designed to get the best of both worlds and beautiful offices with games areas, free food & drinks and more.

What rewards are on offer

• 27 days holiday (rising to 30) + bank holidays

• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced shared parental leave - 6 months paid for both parents
• Digital Doctor on demand
• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year
• Financial coaching
• Mental health platform access

How we'll invest in you

We’re committed to your development. Expect mentorship, training, and opportunities to expand your skill set. Your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses.

Interview process

• A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team

• An interview split into three sections with technical ability questions, a paired programming exercise and behavioural questions

At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates.

Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process, no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs. Unsure what to ask for? We can guide you through available accommodations.

We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know more before applying such as more on hybrid working, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Tom at [email protected]

We believe that success isn’t solely defined by ticking boxes on a skills checklist. We encourage your application, so we can discover your skills and experience that will help you succeed in this role.