Lead Android Engineer

Job description
At Team RH, we’re on a mission to make health and wellness achievable, affordable, and accessible for everyone. Based in the North East of England, we’re more than just a health and wellness company – we’re a community. Through our innovative Team RH app, which combines an intuitive food tracker with the option to purchase our flagship Life Plan, we empower people to achieve sustainable fat loss and live healthier, happier lives.

We cut through the noise of other diet companies by focusing on education and honesty, empowering our members with the tools and knowledge they need to truly succeed.

Our Values Keep Us Focused On What Matters
• Courageously Different: We push boundaries and challenge norms.
• Passionately Driven: We’re fully committed to making a real impact.
• Setting the Standard: We hold ourselves to the highest standards, always.
• One Team RH: We’re in it together – employees and members alike.

We’re here to support people in living healthier, happier lives. We’re building a future where wellness is within everyone’s reach. If you’re driven, passionate, and ready to embody our values, come and join us on the journey!

As a Lead Android Engineer at Team RH you’ll be helping to develop would-class digital products in the health & weight loss space. You’ll be working as part of a feature squad alongside product, UX, iOS & back-end developers to bring new features to our members. You’ll also be responsible for supporting our other Android developers, including helping them to grow their skills and ensuring the code base is well-architected.

You’ll also be involved with looking at new technologies and integrations as we broaden our capabilities, and you’ll often get involved with other departments as we support each other’s initiatives, often acting as an intermediary between the developers and those other stakeholders.

Responsibilities
• Take ownership of developing key features, building high quality solutions.
• Ensure that engineering solutions align with the product vision and can be effectively implemented using our chosen technologies.
• Conduct code reviews and give feedback.
• Mentor other software engineers to develop high-quality, scalable and innovative solutions.
• Cultivate a culture of transparent communication and continuous feedback among the engineering team, product team and the Head of Engineering.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to enhance sprint efficiency, ensuring timely delivery and addressing any impediments.
• Acting as a conduit between the developers and the Head of Engineering.
• Assist in roadmap planning, helping to define short-term and mid-term goals for the team based on strategic direction
• Engage in research & experimentation for new technologies & tools and longer term strategies.

Experience & Skills
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Android software development.
• Previous experience in a lead engineer role, ideally in tech scale-ups.
• Knowledge of software architecture, cloud technologies, and modern programming languages (specifically Kotlin and Jetpack Compose).
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, TDD, user stories and BDD, DevOps principles, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub actions, CircleCI).
• Proven ability to optimise team efficiency, balancing both strategic and operational needs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to make decisions and willingness to challenge, validate and qualify your ideas and assumptions, acting in the interests of the business and the user.
• A keen interest in advancements in the field, including new technologies, latest frameworks, new libraries or interesting blog posts.

Hours
• Full-time: 37.5 hours per week.
• Initially, this role will be hybrid between remote-working, and at our Team Valley office.
• Core Hours: Mon –Thurs : 10am–4pm, Friday: 10am–12:30pm
• It is worth noting that we are currently trialling a 4-day-working-week, which we are planning to review and make permanent in the near future.

Benefits
• Free membership to the Team RH app and Life Plan.
• 25 days of holiday + bank holidays.
• Employee discounts on all products.
• Free on-site gym.
• Regular staff socials.
• Opportunities for career progression, training, and personal development.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Smoke-free site.
• Free refreshments on site.
• Monthly 'Magic Moments' programme – a chance to win prizes for embodying our values.
• True Potential pension.
• For some office-based roles, we are currently trialling a 4-day working week and flexible start/finish times with core hours of +am-4pm. This can be discussed at the interview stage.

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