Associate Android Engineer

📍Manchester or London – Remote-first with occasional team days/socials | 💰Competitive Salary + Benefits

About the role

We’re on the lookout for an enthusiastic Associate Android Engineer to join our team at Moonpig! As a junior member of the Android squad, you'll bring fresh ideas and curiosity to the table while developing your skills through hands-on experience, close collaboration, and mentoring from experienced engineers.

This role is perfect for someone who’s at the start of their engineering career—whether you’re a recent grad, a bootcamp alum, or someone who’s built their skills through self-learning. You’ll have the chance to work on real features that make a real difference to our customers, while growing into a long-term, impactful member of the Moonpig tech team.

Our expectations of our Associate Software Engineers:

• A curious mind. You understand how the work you are doing fits into the wider organisational goals and how you can use data to stay focussed on the team objective.
• Growth mindset. You challenge yourself to learn new things, to understand where your strengths and weaknesses are and reach out to others when necessary to learn from their own experiences.
• Communication and Collaboration. You communicate the status of your work clearly and effectively and actively contribute in scoping sessions, working with peers to define the best implementation gaining knowledge and experience in the process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Pair with fellow Android engineers to develop and maintain features for the Moonpig app
• Learn by doing—fix bugs, build new features, and spike concepts to explore new ideas
• Collaborate with product, design, and other tech teams to deliver top-notch user experiences
• Contribute to team rituals like stand-ups, retros, and workshops
• Continuously improve the app’s performance and scalability with guidance from the team

About You:

• Some hands-on exposure to Android development written in Kotlin (through personal projects, uni, or bootcamps)
• Interest in a TDD approach and writing quality code
• A strong growth mindset and a desire to keep learning
• Comfortable asking questions and working in a supportive team environment
• Experience with object-oriented programming and an understanding of its principles
• Great communication skills and team spirit

Nice to have (but not essential):

• Familiarity with Jetpack Compose, RxJava, Coroutines, or Flow
• Knowledge of version control tools like Git
• Experience working in agile teams

Our Tech Environment:

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose (with some legacy XML)
• RxJava (being phased out), Coroutines & Flow
• Firebase
• MVI architecture
• GitHub (CI/CD)
• Jira

How we get there:

• We’re product-led and customer-focused
• We favour pair programming and collaborative problem solving
• We use a Kanban approach to keep priorities clear and progress flowing
• We value curiosity, clear communication, and learning from each other
• We take our work seriously—but not ourselves! 🎉