Android Developer
Strong modern Kotlin and Jetpack Compose experience? Join Snappy and help build and evolve the Android apps powering thousands of convenience stores and their customers across the UK
About Us
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. Customers on our platform typically spend significantly more online than in‑store, helping retailers grow revenue and deepen community engagement.
We’re more than a delivery app, we’re a technology partner for local high streets, providing tools for digital sales, marketing solutions, and integrations that help retailers compete with larger online players.
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.
Our location
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.
About the team
You'll join our Android team, working closely with Product, Engineering and customer-facing colleagues across the business.
Our Android estate is broader than a single consumer app.
Snappy Shopper is our consumer ordering app, built in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines and Flow.
Order Manager receives orders in-store and supports picking, substitutions, refunds, receipt printing and driver assignment.
Snappy Picker is used by store and warehouse teams to scan and pick products and manage gaps and substitutions.
Order Manager and Snappy Picker also mean working with older Kotlin, RxJava2 and XML codebases running on rugged hardware in thousands of stores, often over patchy connectivity and in sessions lasting all day. Here, reliability matters more than pixel polish.
About the role
As an experienced Android Developer, you’ll combine strong hands-on Android development with the 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.
To be successful, you'll have:
We’re looking for someone with strong level of Android capability rather than a checklist of every technology we use.
You’ll bring strong modern Kotlin experience, including reviewing other developers’ Kotlin and contributing meaningfully to PR discussions.
You’ll also have:
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.
We’d also like you to have done at least one of these:
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.
And there are things we don't expect you to know before you arrive. You'll learn our store domain and the hardware behind it, including Sunmi POS devices and scanners, PayPoint terminals, Zebra scanners and Bluetooth label printers.
Who you are
Community: You collaborate well, share knowledge and help others reach better technical solutions.
Be Snappy: You work at pace, adapt to changing priorities and take ownership of delivery.
Breaking Barriers: You use sound technical judgement to solve difficult problems and aren't afraid to constructively challenge an approach when there's a better one.
Craic on: You communicate clearly, build trusted relationships and enjoy working with technical and non-technical colleagues.
What’s in it for you
Joining Snappy as an Android Developer means working on more than another consumer mobile app.
You'll work across modern Compose development and established applications that sit at the heart of day-to-day store operations. You'll encounter interesting challenges around reliability, hardware, payments, realtime communication and applications operating in imperfect real-world conditions.
You'll have autonomy in how you solve problems, the opportunity to influence our Android engineering approach and a team that values good judgement as much as technical knowledge.
We offer a competitive salary, flexible remote working and ongoing opportunities for learning and development.
Applying
We want our recruitment process to give you (and us) a proper opportunity to understand whether the role is the right fit.
Following an initial application review, selected candidates will have an introductory conversation with our Engineering team to discuss your experience, the role and Snappy's Android environment.
Candidates progressing from there will take part in practical technical sessions involving different Android development scenarios and live coding exercises, giving us the opportunity to understand how you approach problems, write and work with code, make technical decisions and respond as requirements or constraints evolve.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to inclusive recruitment.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, we’re only able to contact candidates who are selected to progress to the next stage.
- Department
- Product and Engineering
- Role
- Android Developer
- Locations
- Scotland, England, Wales
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
Wales
Benefits and perks
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Holidays
Your leave entitlement starts at 32 days and increases the longer you’re with us – we love to reward loyalty
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Birthday day off
Take any day off during the week of your birthday to celebrate the occasion -
Paid sick leave
We know no-one plans on getting sick, but believe it’s important you can focus on resting and recuperating when you do -
Paid company parental leave
To let you spend more time getting to know your new addition -
Paid bereavement leave
To support you through some of life’s toughest times -
Paid domestic violence leave
To support you through some of life's most difficult times
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Cycle to work scheme
Save money, stay fit and help save the planet -
Employee Assistance Programme
Confidential external support when facing challenges, whether personal or professional, for you and your family -
Company pension scheme
To help you save for your future -
Referral bonus
Help us grow by referring great talent to Snappy. If we hire them, we pay you £1000. -
Performance-related reward
Depending on your role, you could be eligible for a performance-related bonus or share options
Join a Growing, Impact-Driven Team
We’re a fast-growing scale-up with 130+ colleagues spread across the UK.
Some of our roles are based in our Dundee and Edinburgh offices, some are remote, while some other roles require colleagues to be on the road visiting retailers every day. But wherever you're based, you are enabled to operate at your best and to drive our growth ambitions.
What Does That Mean?
It means working in an environment where:
✅ Everything you do connects back to a bigger purpose—creating a world where technology levels the playing field allowing businesses and their local communities to thrive
✅ You’re empowered to be a ‘growth-hacker’—finding creative, innovative solutions to scale our impact
✅ Leaders lead with empathy—they genuinely care about people, not just numbers
✅ You can learn and grow fast—if you love a challenge and want to be closer to action, this is where you need to be!
✅ Collaboration is key—peer support and cross-team problem-solving are how we win
Your Voice Matters at Snappy
In our fast changing environment, we want you to shape how we grow:
💡 Have an idea? Attend weekly fire-side chat with the CEO or add an idea to our Snappy Suggestions tool—your input informs our priorities
🎤 Got a question? Ask it at our bi-monthly Basecamp (town hall) and get real answers
📚 Want to shape our culture? Join our Social Committee or one of the employee resource groups and help us build a learning mindset
📊 Want to improve Snappy? Complete our engagement survey—we listen and act
At Snappy, you’re not just another employee—you’re part of building something that matters
About Snappy Shopper
🚀 Be part of the future of Q-commerce.
🔗Visit our website or download the Snappy Shopper app and experience the convenience for yourself!