Senior Android Engineer - £75k - £90k

💻 London HQ (core office days = Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

💵 £75K-£90K + stock options

About August

August is the world’s first all-in-one rental app, built for both Landlords and Tenants. www.augustapp.com

We serve the 2.65 million Landlords in the UK, alongside the 14 million people living in rented accommodation, with a simple, powerful app which brings together everything they need: rent payments, issue reporting, document sharing, reminders, and more, all in one cohesive experience.

Our mission is to revolutionise renting and reshape our industry for the better. We aim to make renting easier for both Landlords and Tenants; fostering stronger relationships through our cutting-edge technology which centralises management, automates processes, and takes the stress out of renting. Imagine us as the Revolut or Monzo of our industry - a game-changer in the world of renting.

We’re backed by leading UK investors, led by ex-hedge fund professionals with significant investments in companies such as Onfido, Glassdoor, and more.

Context

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate Senior Android Developer to join our small and dynamic team. We like independent self-starters who can work well in a team as well as unassisted and who enjoy the setup of an early-stage startup. In this fast-paced environment, we’re looking for someone who can confidently apply their judgement and expertise to achieve a great customer experience. 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

·      Lead the Android development, making key choices regarding the application architecture, libraries and code style

·      Manage the release lifecycle of the Android app on the Play Store

·      Promote good practices and processes within the scrum team

·      A keen eye for design, and a desire to build a beautiful native experience

·      Being involved in UX decisions related to Android-specific designs

·      Be part of a Scrum team working on a high paced weekly sprint, but with most days are meeting-free to allow for your best work.

·      Help around setting up the best CI/CD environment possible

Skills required

·      Android Development - Proficient in developing native Android applications using Kotlin and the Android SDK.

·      Jetpack Compose - Experienced in building modern user interfaces with Jetpack Compose, including understanding of Material Design 3.

·      Kotlin Coroutines - Understanding of asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines for network calls and background tasks and StateFlow for working with state

·      Navigation - Experience with navigation libraries like Jetpack Navigation to manage application flow.

·      Dependency Management - Familiarity with Gradle and managing dependencies using Gradle library catalogue

·      Testing - Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks like JUnit, Espresso, and MockK.

·      Networking - Knowledge of making network calls using libraries like Ktor

·      Persistence - Familiarity with Jetpack Datastore

·      Dependency Injection - Experience with dependency injection frameworks like Koin.

·      Firebase - Experience integrating services like Crashlytics, Analytics, and Performance Monitoring.

Bonus skills

·      Start up experience 

·      Fintech experience - Experience working with Open Banking libraries. 

·      Serialisation - Experience with data serialisation libraries like kotlinx-serialisation.

·      Security - Knowledge of Android security best practices.

·      Libraries - Familiarity with additional libraries like Coil (image loading), Timber (logging).

What we offer

·      The opportunity to take ownership and be a key driver of value in a high-growth startup

·      Passionate, talented colleagues across disciplines

·      Collaborative work environment 

·      Accelerated learning and career development and broad exposure to business building

·      Focus days - every week has days with no meetings

·      Competitive salary

·      Share options (final scheme subject to Board approval)

·      25 days annual leave plus bank holidays