Lead Android Engineer NEW

Manchester, Lancashire
Moneysupermarket Group
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. You’ll help define how Android engineering is done at MONY Group; driving consistency, quality, and long term maintainability across teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.

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.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Team.

Three parts: Technical leadership & system design, collaborative paired programming exercise, behavioural and values based discussion.

OUR COMMITMENT

We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. We’re an inclusive, anti racist, equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups-particularly women and Black, Asian, and ethnic minority candidates. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process.