Lead Android Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a Lead Android Engineer to join our Mobile Collective, playing a key role in shaping and scaling Android apps across MoneySavingExpert, Quidco, and MoneySuperMarket.

As a lead, you’ll set technical direction, provide strong engineering leadership, and remain hands-on in delivery. You’ll work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designers, and other Tech Leads to align technology decisions with customer outcomes and business strategy.

We’re an AI-enabled engineering organisation, using tools like GitHub Copilot, Codex and ChatGPT to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.

What you’ll do

• Lead and own technical direction for Android within your domain, influencing architecture and long-term design decisions
• Act as a technical role model, delivering high-quality, production-ready Kotlin code using Jetpack Compose
• Guide teams through complex technical problems, making pragmatic trade-offs and ensuring solutions scale
• Partner with Product and Design to shape solutions early, ensuring strong technical feasibility and customer outcomes
• Drive engineering standards and best practices across Android (architecture, testing, performance, security)
• Embed quality at pace, championing TDD, CI/CD, pairing, and continuous improvement
• Mentor and coach Android engineers, supporting career progression and building a strong engineering culture
• Influence cross-team decisions, collaborating with other mobile and platform leads to ensure consistency and alignment
• Identify and proactively manage technical risk, legacy concerns, and platform health
• Keep the Android platform modern, bringing new ideas, tooling, and approaches into the organisation

What we’re looking for

• Significant experience building and shipping complex Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Proven experience acting in a technical leadership or lead engineer role, with ownership beyond a single team
• Strong knowledge of mobile architecture, scalability, and modern Android development patterns
• Confidence influencing technical decisions and communicating trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for coaching, mentoring, and raising engineering capability across teams
• Experience with Espresso, automated testing strategies, and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable and curious about using AI-assisted development tools to improve quality and productivity
• A collaborative, pragmatic mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

Rewards & benefits

• 27 days holiday (rising to 30) + bank holidays
• Bonus scheme
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution
• Enhanced shared parental leave (6 months paid for both parents)
• Work-from-anywhere scheme (2 weeks per year)
• Mental health support, financial coaching, and more

Location

Manchester Spinningfields | Hybrid: 2 days in the office per week

Contact

Recruiter: Tom Wood - [contact hidden]

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