Senior Engineer (Android)

The Senior Engineer is a highly capable and adaptable engineering professional responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable, and maintainable solutions across both software and infrastructure domains.

The role encompasses the full breadth of modern engineering, including application development, cloud and infrastructure engineering, automation, and operational excellence.

This role exists to enable the successful delivery and operation of platforms, services, and environments by applying strong engineering fundamentals, modern practices, and a relentless focus on quality.

The Senior Engineer acts as a technical leader and role model, supporting teams through collaboration, mentoring, and continuous improvement, while remaining hands-on and delivery-focused.

You’ll be regarded as the Subject Matter Expert (SME), and responsible for providing strategic expertise to ensure effective management of the technical and business services for your specialist area. Supporting our solutions, platforms and applications occasionally out of hours

You’ll be responsible for the creation, quality, and adherence of technical and standards documentation and practices to maintain a stable and consistent environment.

You’ll provide a high level of technical knowledge to complete the troubleshooting of and resolution to production incidents or problems to meet our operational IT needs and ensure business as usual services are maintained within agreed SLA’s.

This is a hybrid role, requiring the successful candidate to be based in Coventry or Manchester, with a requirement to be onsite once a month and additional days throughout the quarter for PI Planning and other CIDO events.

Overtime: We’ll require you to be available for out-of-hours support, on a rota basis.

Our benefits include

•            28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme

•            Annual discretionary bonus scheme

•            Personal pension with matched contributions

•            Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here

You’ll have knowledge of systems management procedures in a large commercial and mission-critical environment. Be able to demonstrate capacity planning, performance tuning and proactive monitoring of solutions and have a proactive approach, with a desire to develop and improve processes. You’ll have the ability to work in a fast past and changing environment, whilst being thorough, with good attention to detail and delivering to agreed timescales. You’ll be able to articulate technical knowledge into easy-to-understand terms for all stakeholders and be flexible in your approach to working hours to meet your own objectives and assist colleagues in meeting their objectives.

For this role you’ll need to have:

• Strong knowledge of and related experience within an Android software development environment.
•  Subject matter expert in Kotlin / Google play store / Jetpack compose / MVVM architecture / Core routines and Continuous integration/deployment
• Experience with iOS development using Swift UI/UI Kit and Xcode. iOS lifecycle development.
• Strong engineering fundamentals applicable to both software and infrastructure disciplines.
• Experience working across cloud and infrastructure concepts and \ or alongside application development.
• Ability to think holistically about systems, balancing functionality, reliability, security, and cost.

Attitude & Mindset (Critical to Success)

• Raises standards through example, improving quality, automation, and reliability.
• Contributes positively to team culture, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously develops personal skills while helping others grow.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes.
• Open to change and experimentation, with a willingness to challenge the status quo constructively.

Experience in these areas would be helpful:

• Exposure to modern delivery models (Agile, DevOps-oriented teams).
• Experience contributing to platform, environment, or shared service engineering.
• Familiarity with operational practices such as monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Full time – 35hrs

In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.

Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.                                                                          

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.