Senior Android Engineer – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Overview

In this Senior Android Engineer role, you will build and evolve Tesco’s DDS on Android, creating reusable UI foundations and robust APIs. You will collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and DDS peers to keep experiences consistent across Tesco’s digital estate. You will focus on accessibility, quality, documentation, and developer experience, shaping modern design-to-development workflows. You will work with Figma, MCP integrations, and AI-assisted tools to improve reuse and onboarding. This role offers impact at scale within a cross-functional platform team and opportunities to grow through senior craft leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• Annual bonus up to 20%
• Holiday 25 days + personal day + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Maternity and adoption leave 26 weeks + 13 weeks statutory pay, Paternity leave 6 weeks
• 24/7 virtual GP service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for family wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Create reusable Android components and APIs with strong test coverage
• Improve developer tooling and documentation for DDS Android
• Support consuming teams and shape modern design-to-development workflows
• Utilize Figma, MCP integrations, agentic cloud workflows and AI-assisted tools
• Ensure accessibility, quality, release discipline, and safe migrations across Android implementations
• Collaborate with design, accessibility, product engineering, and platform peers to maintain cross-platform alignment
• Provide architectural judgment, code reviews, mentoring, and clear technical communication

Key requirements

• Build, maintain, and evolve Android DDS platform components with clear APIs and accessibility support
• Translate design intent, tokens, and interaction guidance into production-ready Android implementations
• Improve developer experience with documentation, onboarding, contribution guidance, and migration tooling
• Collaborate across iOS, Android, React Native, and Web to align DDS implementation
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve quality, speed, or self-service
• Lead through senior engineering craft with architectural judgment and high-quality communication
• Relocation and learning opportunities provided by the company
• Demonstrate strong mentoring and pragmatic delivery skills

• collaboration
• mentoring
• technical clarity
• Android development
• design system experience (DDS)
• accessibility support

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