Ocado Technology is building the next-generation grocery ecommerce suite that’s changing the way the world shops

Ocado Group is a technology-led, global, software and robotics platform business, with a strong retail heritage. Ocado has been at the forefront of innovation in the online grocery industry since it was founded in 2000. Its retail business, Ocado.com, is one of the world’s largest online-only supermarkets with over £2,2bn annual revenue and over 795,000 active customers.

The Acquisition cluster in the Order department is part of Ecommerce. Armed with a mission to provide a world-class platform that helps bring quality traffic onto OSP, convert visitors into shoppers by fulfilling their needs and expectations, and build shopping habits that encourage customer loyalty and engagement.

As an Android software engineer you will participate in the development of our customer-facing, native Android app, to be used by millions of people all over the world. Each team is cross-functional; comprising Android, iOS, web and backend-focused engineers, working together to deliver features to a high standard.

Mobile engineers work closely with web engineers, backend engineers, Product Managers and UX to ensure feature parity and a consistently high-quality experience across all platforms. Teams leverage industry best-practices like continuous delivery and extensive automated testing, and are given the autonomy to try out new technologies and techniques that support our business and long-term goals. You will work in a modularised project that is continuously improved by every developer. 

You will be given autonomy in how you approach complex problems and will be encouraged to research and seek out innovative solutions. 

Deliver for Today

• Work with your team to deliver valuable contributions of high quality, in the timescales agreed by your team.
• Contribute to the full delivery lifecycle, from idea generation to value validation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce wasted effort.
• Use analysis and diagnostic tools to monitor the operation of your product and be able to communicate your findings.
• Help to build clarity on technical strategy and support its implementation.

Design for Future

• Take into account the business, technical and economic context when making design decisions.
• Look for multiple ways to solve problems and communicate effectively the benefits and drawbacks of each.
• Support other teams to find ways to solve their problems.
• Guide design activities and communicate outcomes effectively.

Execute with Quality

• Ensure that your department’s practices are informed by industry best practice.
• Identify and mitigate risks to delivery, including consistent application of high quality testing.

• Champion security awareness across your department. Implement or direct security related work at the team level as appropriate.

• Make sure your Product’s implementation can be diagnostically analysed, where practical, building in observability, in order to resolve faults and be maintainable.

 

Leading & Influencing

• Contribute to discussion and influence technical direction.
• Apply good strategic judgement in architectural decision making.
• Share your knowledge and learn from others.
• Help to develop other engineers around you into more capable and experienced people.
• Collaborate with your team to understand the shoppers’ needs and find ways to meet them.

Support

• Deliver solutions to ongoing support queries.
• Reduce manual support through process and/or Product improvement.

Essential

• You have great programming and technical design skills.
• You have an extensive knowledge of the Android environment from developing high-quality apps.
• You have built production apps with Kotlin.
• You take pride in writing polished and fully-tested code.
• You are passionate about great UX.
• You create user experiences with accessibility as a core requirement.
• Your collaboration skills allow you to work effectively alongside a cross-functional team.
• You have a desire to share knowledge and learn from others in order to improve your breadth and depth of knowledge.

Desirable

• You have experience designing APIs.

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