Senior Software Engineer - Android

At Too Good To Go, we have an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.

More than 40% of all food produced in the world is wasted and retailers lose between 1-3% of their annual sales due to food waste, all of this waste has a huge impact on the health of our planet, with 10% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food waste.

The Retail Technologies teams at Too Good To Go are working on our new software solution, the Too Good To Go Platform, used directly by Retailers to track and redistribute surplus food seamlessly. This B2B app, connected to our consumer marketplace, helps stores better manage expiry dates by; detecting products that are about to expire, recommending what to do with them, and facilitating their redistribution (via discounting for in-store customers, donations to charities, or sales on the marketplace). This business app is already used by tens of thousands of store employees every day, and soon to be hundreds of thousands by the end of the year in several countries.

We’re more than an app: we are a certified B Corporation with a mission to empower everyone to take action against food waste, so alongside our marketplace app, we create educational tools, explore new business solutions - such as our Retail Technologies offering, and influence legislation to help reduce food waste.

We’re growing fast: Our community of 81 million registered users and 197,000 active partners across 17 countries, have together already prevented 270+ million meals from going to waste - avoiding over 675,000 tonnes of CO2e!

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Android to be a part of our Product Teams that define, build and deliver our product features. Working in a product team means you will work towards specific outcomes with the freedom and responsibility to figure out the best route to achieve them together with the other Engineers and Product members of the Team.

Your mission will be to help refine, design, implement, deliver and maintain various product features. You will be one of several developers, working as part of a multidisciplinary team and will bring your knowledge and expertise to the table.

As a Senior you will actively support your engineering lead in delivering a quality, maintainable and international top-class product, whilst being a role model for less-senior team members, by taking responsibility for problems and using your expertise to identify the right solutions.

The Tech Stack

We have an Android App written in Kotlin using a MVVM Design Pattern. A lot of our UI is written in Jetpack Compose.

Some of the libraries we use

• Room
• Kotlin Coroutines and Flow
• Retrofit
• Glide
• Koin

Our CI/CD runs on GitHub actions and includes Unit Tests, lint checks with Detekt and automatic build on App Center.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features, whilst maintaining and improving existing code for the Retail Technologies Solution
• Release new versions and continuously monitor app performance and detect areas for improvement
• Keeping user experience at the forefront of your work, at all times
• Strive to deliver top-class international products with maximum quality, maintainability and scalability
• "Participate in mentoring, and coaching whilst actively giving and encouraging regular feedback with those around you
• Be an inspirational member of the team, ensuring those around you follow and trust in your actions towards building the best long-term product
• Be responsible by acting as an owner for problems which may arise, unless agreed upon by others, we will count on you to look at the bigger picture, even if this may fall outside of your usual day-to-day
• Think big, we want you to push your limits, and think outside of the box, addressing ways in which we can add scalability to our work
• Simplify things and break down what looks hard into smaller digestible pieces:
• Spread your expertise
• Distribute work
• Automate
• Deliver on commitments and be accountable. This is your chance to #buildalegacy
• Actively participate in your teams’ agile development processes, with a continuous improvement mindset"

The Ideal candidate

• Experience as an Android Developer at a senior level
• Deep knowledge of Android SDK and most standard libraries
• Proficiency in programming in Java, Kotlin or Both
• Natural ability to identify great solutions to ever-arising challenges, and act on them in a timely manner
• Proactive mindset and ability to work well in a team environment
• Experience with building scalable solutions
• Enjoys actively participating in a cross-functional product team
• Takes pride in writing quality code
• Preferably experience with REST API calls
• Relevant degree in software engineering

What we offer

• An opportunity to have a huge impact, knowing what you help design will be used daily by hundreds of thousands of store employees daily, enabling them to save millions of food items per day
• To be an integral member of our defined product teams. We are eager for you to make an impact and contribute to the product scope and development; Your insights are valuable, and we are here to listen
• Work-life balance is important to us! Focus on the job to be done, not the hours spent, there is no need for overtime. On-call duty is not part of the job, but can be additionally agreed upon should you and your manager both wish it. We believe happy environments, create happy employees
• We trust in our employees and encourage an autonomous environment that provides several opportunities for employees to contribute, develop and take ownership of their work in a way that works for them
• To be part of an international company, with over 1,200+ colleagues across 17 countries that are on the same important mission. We are a fun bunch of ~100 colleagues in the Paris office
• We work from the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Our values

• We win together: Food waste is a big beast to fight. We can do it if we win together as Waste Warriors with no ego. We believe in a #oneteam
• We raise the bar: We always push for more. We work smart, smash barriers and elevate one another
• We keep it simple: Our ambitions are bold but our solutions are simple
• We build a legacy: We’re proud of the change we’re driving
• We care: We always look out for each other. Caring is also about the way we do business. We do the right thing

Job Ref: #LI-TC1

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