Engineer - Android Mobile Application & Delivery Platforms

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities to have impact across the group and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

The Opportunity

As an Android Mobile Engineer, you will own the development lifecycle, scalability, and "developer experience" of our core native Android application. You will bridge the gap between feature development (building well-tested, high-quality code) and Operations (ensuring 99.9% uptime, performance, and compliance across a massive customer and device base). Your goal is to treat our mobile application and its delivery pipelines as a product: ensuring it is easy to consume via modern, clean architecture, inherently secure, and integrated seamlessly with critical platforms like Omnissa.

What you’ll do

• App Architecture & Roadmap: Contribute to the "Golden Path" for Android application development. Decide when to deprecate older frameworks and how to transition teams to modern, idiomatic Android development.
• Developer Tooling as Product: Partner with Mobile Apps Development teams to ensure the mobile development environment (SDKs, build systems, dependency management) is "consumable" via Woolworths’ automation tooling. You aren't just delivering code; you are delivering an automated, stable delivery service.
• Mobile CI/CD Orchestration: Own Azure CI/CD pipelines that handle automated builds, comprehensive testing, code signing, and deployment orchestration to the Google Play Store and internal channels. This is a key component of your pipeline experience.
• Security & Compliance: Translate complex regulatory requirements and security best practices (e.g. data encryption) into actionable engineering backlogs for automated remediation.
• Operational Excellence: Use Woolworths current reporting & monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk) to derive product insights. Identify "noisy" segments of the mobile platform and prioritise engineering fixes to reduce operational "toil" (crashes, performance regressions).

What you’ll bring

• Experience: 7+ years in Software Engineering, with at least 2–3 years in a Mobile Product Environment role focusing on native Android platforms or mobile delivery platforms.
• Degree in Computing Science or equivalent; Certifications such as Associate Android Developer or Professional Google Cloud DevOps Engineer are a significant plus.
• Soft Skills: A "consultant" mindset.

Technical Domain Authority

• Android Ecosystem: Deep knowledge of the Android SDK. You must understand the "legacy" enough to migrate it and the "modern" enough to automate it.
• Omnissa Integration: Hands-on experience integrating mobile applications with core enterprise platforms like Omnissa, including API consumption, authentication, and data synchronization.
• The "Pipeline" Mindset: Proven experience moving teams from manual processes ("click-ops") to code-based builds and deployments using mobile CI/CD frameworks (like Azure pipelines).

Product Management Craft

• Stakeholder Management: Experience balancing the conflicting needs of App Devs (who want speed) and Security/Ops (who want stability).
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to use telemetry to justify platform investments (e.g., "Implementing a new state management library will reduce crashes by X and save Y in developer debugging overhead").
• Backlog Governance: Proficiency in JIRA to manage sprints, feature requests, and technical debt.

Security First Philosophy

• Experience with DevSecOps—integrating vulnerability scanning (e.g., static analysis) and policy-as-code into the deployment pipeline so that security is "invisible" to the end user.

What you’ll experience
We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.