[Hiring] Android Developer @Snappy Shopper

Role Description

As an experienced Android Developer, you’ll combine strong hands-on Android development with independent technical judgement and ownership.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Design, build and maintain Android features across Snappy Shopper, Order Manager and Snappy Picker.
• Work with other Android developers and wider stakeholders to turn business requirements into clear technical approaches and deliverables.
• Make sound technical decisions, considering architecture, reliability, maintainability and the wider impact of your implementation.
• Take ownership of the quality and completeness of your solutions before they reach review.
• Review other developers’ code and contribute constructively to technical discussions.
• Troubleshoot existing Kotlin and legacy Java code and help resolve complex production issues.
• Work pragmatically, recognising when something needs solving properly now and when improvement is better left for another day.

Qualifications

• Strong modern Kotlin experience, including reviewing other developers’ Kotlin and contributing meaningfully to PR discussions.
• Production experience with Jetpack Compose.
• Strong experience with Coroutines and Flow.
• Hilt, Dagger 2 or Koin experience, with a good understanding of dependency scoping.
• Experience working with multi-module Clean Architecture, where architecture and code-quality standards are enforced through tooling and CI.
• A strong unit-testing habit, using technologies such as JUnit and MockK/Mockito.
• Experience with collaborative development, version control and code review.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Our apps currently ship at minSdk 24–26 and targetSdk 35–36.

Requirements

• Worked with RxJava2, including good disposal discipline.
• Shipped a hardware integration using a vendor SDK, AIDL service, Bluetooth device or partner-app Intent.
• Shipped realtime functionality using WebSockets, including fallback and dead-connection handling.
• Worked with custom Dagger scopes or subcomponents with explicit teardown.
• Exposure to XML/ViewBinding, Room, Crashlytics, payment SDKs, Firebase Remote Config, WorkManager, Bluetooth printing or similar technologies is useful, but isn't essential.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible remote working.
• Ongoing opportunities for learning and development.

Company Description

Snappy Shopper is the UK’s fastest‑growing quick commerce (Q‑commerce) platform powering rapid grocery delivery from local convenience stores. We enable independent retailers and major partners, including SPAR, Nisa, Premier, Co‑op and others, to digitally transform their business by offering same‑day and rapid delivery of food, drink and everyday essentials within as little as 30‑60 minutes.

At Snappy Shopper, we’re committed to innovation, retail empowerment and community impact, helping stores thrive digitally, offering exceptional local convenience to customers, and shaping the future of on‑demand retail in the UK.

We are a UK company with colleagues across the country and offices in Dundee and Edinburgh. This is a fully remote role, with occasional opportunities to connect with colleagues in person.