What’s the role about?

As the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer, E-Commerce is a key part of Our Business - we run two of the busiest websites in the UK, driving a significant proportion of our sales. Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from E-Commerce functionality to Machine Learning.

Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us. We support our Engineers to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies.

Find out more about being a Software Engineer in the Partnership, and the technology we use.

What you’ll be doing?

This is an opportunity to work as a Software Engineer specialising in Android development on a cross-functional Agile development team. You’ll typically be working collaboratively with other highly skilled Android Engineers as well as iOS engineers,  BAs, Testers, Web Designers and User Experience specialists on challenging customer-facing projects.

Learning new skills is extremely important to us. You would be expected to constantly improve your engineering skills and keep up to date with the latest technologies and techniques. In return for your  commitment you will receive the support and resources needed to achieve your learning goals. 

Ideal candidates will have excellent Android Java and Kotlin skills with a track record of working in teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software. Successful candidates will have passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions.

What you’ll already have:

• Native Mobile Development in Android (Kotlin and Java)

• Knowledge and experience to support and migrate older Java Android code

• Accessibility best practice

• Knowledge of common design patterns such as MVVM, IoC, MVP

• Automation of unit and functional testing of Android applications

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

• TDD, pair programming.

• Trunk, Branching, Code reviews, Pull requests

• Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban

• REST API development and/or consumption

What else you could bring:

• Specific knowledge of MVVM and MVP (this is what is in use atm)

• Postman or similar tools

• Charles/Proxyman or similar tools

• Bitrise/Gitlab CI

You will be working closely with the iOS development teams, and will also work with our website and microservice teams as such any experience in the following areas may also be helpful, but is not required or expected:

Swift/iOS

• GraphQL

• Microservice Architectures

• Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as  AWS, GCP or Azure

• Understanding of UX principles

• HTML, CSS, and related web technologies

• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as Reactjs, Redux, Webpack

• Any Server side development languages such as Java

Where will you be working?:

We have opportunities at our John Lewis Head Office in London Victoria. Whilst you will have an office base - we promote a blended approach to working location. In order to maximise the benefits of remote and team working, you will be able to work from either our offices or from a remote location (as long as it is within the UK).  

We'll expect flexibility and will on occasions require you to be in the office. But for this role, it would be reasonable to plan on the basis of a 60/40 remote/office split.  In practice, we aim to maximise flexibility and these decisions will mostly be made locally within your team.