Together with our partner, a prominent online fashion & beauty retailer in Europe, we are looking for a Lead Android Engineer.

This European retailed fulfils more than 200 million orders every year and the volumes are increasing. Whenever a customer experiences their shop the technology is at the scene and behind the scenes - software makes their systems work. Emerging Propositions is a growing multi-disciplinary group of engineers, data scientists, business developers, product designers, and product managers in Helsinki and Berlin, working to inspire each individual customer with meaningful fashion moments beyond transactions in a very personalized way.

As part of the Emerging Propositions teams you will be involved in exciting projects that primarily focus on our customers' experience in the beauty, designer, and pre-owned domains. This Lead Android Engineer role provides a unique opportunity to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team of mobile, web, and backend engineers and shape the next chapter for fashion and lifestyle experience for tens of millions of customers.

• You will be part of an agile cross functional team that builds solutions for Fashion Store applications (Android and iOS) as well as the website.

• Together with the team you will build solutions for customers to socially engage with others: share fashion discoveries and get inspired by others.

• Communicate with various stakeholders to understand the business context, and translate the requirements into technical designs

• Act like an owner by taking up a challenge, work towards reducing ambiguity, and break the work down into manageable tasks for the team.

• Lean on your Android experience and skill set, develop robust, performant and maintainable code.

• Share and develop your expertise with your team to deliver the best user experience to our customers

• Lead another Senior engineer

• You are a passionate Senior Android Engineer who is eager to work with new technologies while trying to challenge yourself and deliver clean, easily maintainable and testable code.

• You have 5+ years of experience working in high performing Teams and can independently drive end-to-end delivery, facilitating technical discussions and complex decision making.

• You have a deep understanding of the Android SDK, industry standard design patterns for Android Apps, and Kotlin as the programming language

• You are familiar with RxJava and the functional programming concepts of Kotlin. Familiarity with Jetpack Compose and Coroutines is a bonus.

• You have a good understanding of how to work with REST services and APIs. Familiarity with GraphQL is a bonus.

• You are knowledgeable about engineering practices that lead to writing well-tested high quality code.

• Big advantage if you have experience leading other engineers in a team.