Senior Android Engineer

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Senior Android Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Engineering Manager

Description

Go City is transforming the way people see and experience the world's greatest destinations.We give our customers total flexibility to choose the experiences, tours and activities they want to visit at incredible savings.

Backed by highly successful Private Equity firm Exponent and headquartered in Covent Garden, London, the business is highly profitable with 3+ million customers globally. We have ambitious plans to leverage these capabilities to drive the business' continued growth. Go City is excited for like-minded, problem-solving individuals to join the team and make their mark on our future.

We listen to our customers, our partners and our team, to help improve our business every day. And that's where you come in! For more information and to explore at our products, visit Gocity.com.

As a Senior Android Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and evolving our Android app - the product that helps customers buy, manage and use their Go City Pass while travelling.

You'll work closely with Engineering and Product to turn ideas into well-designed, scalable solutions. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: from architecture decisions through to shipping high-quality features into production.

You'll also support and mentor others, helping us raise the bar for mobile development across the team.

What the Mobile team is up to

Our Mobile Team owns both the Android and iOS apps, deploying improvements multiple times per month.

We focus on building features independently wherever possible so we can move quickly and reduce complexity.

Right now, we're working on exciting new functionality to create an even smoother and more delightful customer experience while using their pass in-city.

Our Tech StackWe work with modern tools and frameworks, including:

• Kotlin / Jetpack Compose / Coroutines
• Spring Boot
• AWS / Kubernetes
• Elastic Stack / Prometheus / Grafana / JaegerFull stack here: https://stackshare.io/companies/gocity

How We Work

• Native mobile development
• Product-led delivery
• Agile / Scrum ceremonies
• Strong culture of knowledge sharing

Engineering Principles

• High Availability
• Observability
• Performance
• Security
• Testability
• Releasability
• You build it, you run it

Key Responsibilities

• Shape requirements into clear, actionable engineering work
• Lead design, development, testing and deployment of mobile features
• Own architectural decisions and technical standards
• Provide guidance on complex or ambiguous challenges

• Foster an open and supportive team environment
• Contribute actively to ceremonies and technical discussions
• Mentor peers and share knowledge across the team

• Drive work through to completion with high standards
• Champion testing practices and code review excellence

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong professional experience shipping Android apps to production
• Deep understanding of Android architecture and best practices
• Expertise in Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, dependency injection
• Ability to take full ownership of technical delivery
• Passion for clean code, testing, and scalable engineering
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity with creativity and initiative
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers
• Commitment to living our Go City values

Desirable

• Exposure to backend technologies such as Spring Boot

Benefits

• Annual Go City Explorer Pass allowance
• Enhanced pension contributions. (5% employer)
• Life assurance: 4x your base salary
• Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays
• Option to buy additional 5 days annual leave per year
• Upgraded Family Leave
• 1x Community day. Take a day off to give back to the community
• Work from Anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
• Health care cash plan
• Personal Learning Budget & dedicated time for development
• EAP providing access to counselling, finance support, etc.
• Cycle to Work Scheme