Android Engineer

Job description

About Us algo1 is reinventing one of the world’s most familiar experiences: the in-store grocery trip. We are building an AI-native product that understands each shopper, responds to their context in real time and makes an everyday experience less stressful, more personal and more engaging. We are backed by leading investors and founded by experienced entrepreneurs in company building, retail data and shopper analytics. They have brought together frontier AI researchers and engineers, product and strategy leaders, and senior operators from major UK and US grocery businesses. The people joining now will have a genuine opportunity to shape the product, the engineering culture, and what algo1 becomes. The Role You will report to our Head of Android, Kiril, and work closely with product, design, backend and edge AI specialists to build the consumer-facing product through which millions of shoppers could experience algo1. This is native Kotlin development on our own application, running on a known device inside live grocery stores. That creates a distinctive set of engineering challenges around performance, reliability, lifecycle management and resilience in a demanding physical environment. We are AI-native in how we build. Every engineer has access to frontier coding tools and our own development harness. We expect you to use them thoughtfully to move faster and tackle more ambitious work, while remaining fully accountable for the quality of what reaches shoppers. What You’ll Own Shopper-facing features end to end. Take substantial Android features from the first product conversation through implementation, release and iteration in stores. On-device intelligence. Connect our edge AI capabilities to the shopper experience, turning machine-learning outputs into interactions that feel genuinely useful. Performance and reliability. Improve latency, stability, lifecycle behaviour and resilience on a controlled device operating in a live retail environment. The evolution of the codebase. Help establish the architecture, patterns and engineering standards that will support the product as it grows. Product judgement. Work closely with product and design to turn complex AI capabilities into interactions that feel fast, intuitive and personal. Production performance. Monitor released features, investigate problems and improve the experience using technical evidence and…