
Android Engineer at Trainline (London, United Kingdom)
Trainline· London, United Kingdom·
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About us
At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels. Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet. We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel. Introducing our Mobile team 👋 Our Mobile team are the people who build the travel companion in your pocket. They own the mobile app that allows you to travel smart and the buy-flow process that helps you get there. You will be an Android specialist in one of our many cross functional product teams. Our squads are paired up to company level 'Strategic Themes' which set the tone for the kind of product roadmap the squad will primarily be working on delivering. Key technologies include: Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, Dagger, SOLID principles with a huge focus on quality and clean code.
As an Engineer at Trainline, you will... 🚄
- Be a part of a cross-functional team that will contribute to the design and implementation of our software in the product for Android users.
- Appreciate the value of agile and of engineering practices, and solid, clean code.
- Be actively involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle.
- Work closely with the team and Product to help drive & deliver roadmaps.
- Help to build and deliver software using Agile practices (SCRUM, two weeks iterations), continuous integration and pair programming.
- Be delivering new functionalities and features, using the best tools and techniques for the job.
We'd love to hear from you if you... 🔍
- Have good working experience with Kotlin
- Are enthusiastic for a great user experience
- Have a passion for continuous delivery
- Have experience working with Git
- Have solid grasp of Design Patterns, SOLID & Clean Code Principles, CI/CD...
- Basic understanding of AI structured skills as Trainline has skills for creating components, maintaining quality, speeding up work
More information: Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy. Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:
- 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
- ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
- 🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
- ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated. Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!
Why work at Trainline
- Culture & Values: Four core values — “Think Big,” “Own It,” “Travel Together,” “Do Good” — shape culture. Emphasis on innovation, accountability, inclusion, and positive environmental impact.
- Flexible/Hybrid Work: Hybrid policy requiring 60% minimum in-office over 12-week period; plus a 28-day “Work from Abroad” policy per year.
- Benefits: 25 days annual leave + 2 extra days over festive period + option to buy 3 extra days; Bupa health & dental cover; gym discount; Employee Assistance Programme; income protection; global share incentive plan; Perkbox discounts; enhanced parental leave; fertility and parental bereavement coaching.
- Diversity & Inclusion: 55+ nationalities, c.990 employees. Active employee-led networks: Women in Leadership, Gender Equality Network, Ethnic Diversity Network, Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+), Sunflower (accessibility), Parents & Carers.
- Career Development: Personal learning budget; digital learning platform (Learning Express); workshops and development programmes; internal mobility encouraged; transparent pay bands; promotion windows twice a year (~10% of employees promoted annually).
- Office Locations: Modern offices in London (HQ), Edinburgh, Barcelona (tech hub with sunny terrace), Milan, Paris. Perks include free breakfast, pool tables, event spaces, stocked drinks fridges, and outdoor BBQs in some locations.
- Impact: Opportunity to work on a platform with 125M+ monthly visits, driving modal shift and reducing carbon emissions.