OVERVIEW:

Working in the Mobile Engineering team, this role exists to set the bar for creating quality, scalable digital solutions for Gymshark and its customers, with a focus on the mobile products.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

LEADERSHIP

Mentors new starters and less Senior team members in the development of their roles
Coordinates design workshops & ensuring all engineers contribute
Prepares for situations or discussions in advance where requested
Takes accountability for their contribution towards the success of a given situation or discussion
Proactively brings formed decisions to Mobile Leads to reinforce their ideas to ensure they are on the right track
Steps in to move situations or discussions forward when they start to stall
Respects the input of people in other roles to their work and conversations
Actively fosters collaboration with peers in the team in the interest of quality and efficiency
Considers team goals when prioritising and making decisions
Makes a point of inviting input from more junior members of the team, and of creating opportunities for them to get involved
Strives to be objective and reflects on their own biases when making decisions
Holds themselves accountable for decisions and outcomes
Identifies and appropriately escalates perceived knowledge gaps of other team members and the team itself
Actively fosters collaboration with peers across teams in the interest of knowledge-sharing and development

DELIVERY

Works collaboratively with Engineering colleagues and Leads to meet sprint goals, and ensure sprints are successful
Ensures that Security, Financial, Commercial and Business requirements are considered when discovering and sizing work.
Insists on understanding customer value in their work
Ensures tasks are prioritised correctly by making data-led decisions where possible, and by ensuring that dependencies are noted
Collaborates with product owners to ensure that expectations are managed, delivering as required as well as helping to agree reasonable timescales for delivering on key outcomes
Takes accountability for the work meeting Engineering standards and team-level Definitions of Done and Definitions of Ready
Identifies the need to collaborate with peers and other teams as necessary to understand and work towards outcomes
Presents on the work delivered within an iteration to key stakeholders, clearly demoing the value, in language that non-technical stakeholders can understand
Champions the continuous improvement of the team (including quality, process, teamwork, but not limited to these things) through retrospectives and other appropriate channels
Breaks stories down effectively, ensuring that stories are small by design and that each story delivers value
Challenges bloat and scope creep in favour of swift value delivery

CULTURE

Confidently opens and leads discussions within the team
Provides honest and candid feedback when requested, taking care to include constructive criticism
Openly gives recognition of individuals to the team and peers
Uses 10% time to increase knowledge and capability in industry-relevant technologies and practices. Demos how 10% time has been used & actively prompts others to use theirs effectively & consistently
Shares knowledge across teams through suitable channels (blogs, lightning talks, demos, workshops)
Plays an active and leading role in all Scrum ceremonies in order to drive forward progression in sprints

CRAFT

An expert in writing clean and readable Object Oriented code
Knows the latest and most complex language features and makes the best use of encapsulation and mutability.
Has mastered the full knowledge of one platform, has a deep understanding of the other
Owns and maintains the design and implementation of software architecture components by applying SOLID principles
Utilise Clean Architecture, modularisation, and MVVM to maintain a clean separation of concerns across the codebase
Drives unit test coverage expectations, creating test doubles, influencing others to adopt / use TDD
Has a very good understanding of advanced Git commands
Has a full understanding of CI process and tools
Good knowledge of external tools which can be used to complete RCA of issues.
Autonomously creates new documentation for processes, features and best practices
Collaborates with the Design team in creating and maintaining a design system
Considers security implications as part of day-to-day work and can address issues raised by a security audit

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

Essential

Criteria:

Hands-on delivery of Android applications according to the sprint backlog, often involving end-to-end leadership for a given feature or project
Expert in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Ensure solutions are implemented that deliver genuine value to their users
Coordinating and instrumenting the overarching solution design, in accordance with architectural vision and development strategy during the discovery phase of new projects
Performing a suitable degree of testing against a given solution before delivery
Raising technical constraints & dependencies to the Product Owner to align for the best solution
Defining and tracking Engineering/Quality KPIs in collaboration with the Lead engineer to ensure delivery is consistent and class-leading

Preferred Skills

Experience of Kotlin Multi Platform is desirable

Closing Date: 26th May 2026

BELONGING AT GYMSHARK.

Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email talent@gymshark.com.

ABOUT US.

We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them. It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.

THE PERKS.

Standard benefits include:

Performance-based Bonus opportunity
Funded Healthcare benefit
25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays
Contributory Employer pension scheme
Flexible benefits programme – including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
Access to High Street cashback and discounts
Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
Enhanced Family Leave package
Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
EV charge points available

Note: The bonus program and benefits have certain eligibility requirements. Gymshark reserves the right to amend these programs in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.