Senior Android Engineer, AdTech (m/f/d)
Summary
Senior Android engineer owning the architecture and development of Redcare Pharmacy's Android app with a focus on AdTech/Retail Media: building sponsored products, brands, banners and recommendation placements using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM/MVI and clean architecture, plus improving CI/CD, testing and app performance.
About your tasks:
- Lead the design and development of scalable, maintainable, and high-performing Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVI, and Clean Architecture.
- Define and evolve the Android application architecture, ensuring scalability, modularity, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Drive the adoption and effective use of Jetpack Compose to build modern, declarative, reusable, and responsive user interfaces.
- Design and build reusable mobile components for Retail Media and advertising experiences, including Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, native placements, display banners, and personalized product recommendations.
- Integrate Retail Media placements naturally into product discovery, search, category, product detail, and other commerce journeys, balancing monetization objectives with a high-quality customer experience.
- Collaborate with backend, data, product, and ad server teams on APIs, tracking contracts, campaign metadata, targeting, attribution, and measurement requirements.
- Build flexible and configurable solutions that enable new ad formats, placements, campaigns, and monetization use cases to be introduced efficiently.
- Ensure best practices in modularization, code quality, testing, and performance optimization, define and evolve the app’s architecture, ensuring scalability and long-term maintainability
- Build reusable mobile components for Retail Media experiences, including Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, product recommendations, banners.
- Ensure engineering best practices across modularization, code quality, dependency management, observability, testing, security, and performance optimization.
- Improve CI/CD reliability, build performance, and release processes.
- Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation for architecture decisions, features, and technical processes
- Review and guide critical technical and architectural decisions, contributing to engineering standards and best practices across teams.
- Improve app stability, performance, and overall technical health.
- Reduce technical debt strategically while enabling product teams through platform improvements.
- Implement and evolve feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and A/B testing to validate new customer and advertising experiences through measurable outcomes.
About you:
- Extensive experience in Android development with strong expertise in Kotlin.
- Deep understanding of the Android SDK and modern Android development practices.
- Hands-on experience with: Jetpack Compose
- Coroutines & Flow
- Dependency Injection (Hilt/Dagger)
- REST APIs (Retrofit/OkHttp)
- Strong knowledge of clean architecture principles, design patterns, and modularization
- Experience with testing (JUnit, Espresso, MockK) and writing maintainable, testable code
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows
- Proven ability to take ownership of complex projects and deliver high-quality results independently
- Strong focus on performance, scalability, and user experience
- You collaborate effectively across teams and bring strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
- Experience working in Retail Media, AdTech, MarTech large-scale e-commerce platforms.
About your benefits:
In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:
- Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
- Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of Likeminded if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
- Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
- Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
- Personal development: Grow! We support and encourage your individual development through various in- and external trainings.
- And many more :)