Job Title - Senior Android Developer

Location - London, UK

Job Type- Full Time

• We’re looking for a product-aware, senior Android engineer with a passion for great UI and UX as well as an understanding of the need for tested and resilient code.
• You’ll be working on a private banking app that allows our clients to effectively manage their banking needs and your work will shape the way that they interact with their finances.
• Collaborating across various disciplines, you’ll test theories that will ultimately make a significant difference to our customers.
• Our app is written in Kotlin, utilising the MVVM clean architecture and as we gradually migrate to Jetpack Compose for all new journeys and features, you’ll help us utilise industry standard tools and technologies.

What you'll do

As an Android Principal Engineer, you’ll be leading the Android development team, managing technical resources within and across the function. As such, you’ll be making sure that suitable technologies and systems are employed to ensure that the solutions developed are efficient and flexible enough to deliver the required functionality.

You’ll be able to coach others and lead by example, ensuring that your team works in the most efficient and collaborative way. You’ll also be comfortable liaising with other discipline leads and stakeholders to help them understand the possibilities for any requirement.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Influencing our approach to mobile development and delivery, ensuring that we utilise the most suitable architectures while effectively interfacing with other connected banking services and APIs.
• Following and promoting Agile processes while working in, and with, squads of Android engineers, iOS engineers, back-end engineers, product owners, business analysts, solution architects, and quality assurance engineers.
• Developing relationships with key stakeholders and management to support the understanding of businesses requirements and helping to define how they can be met.
• Writing efficient code and unit tests using the latest tools and techniques.
• Attending weekly meetings to discuss tools, techniques, and problems, and working together to improve our processes and codebase.

The skills you'll need:

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience as a senior Android developer and you’ll understand, and be able to implement, computer science principles and best-practices. Along with strong leadership skills and experience operating in a matrix managed environment, you’ll have the ability to work with ambiguity and identify and define the exact solution when needed.

You’ll have worked on at least one app on the play store and you’ll understand how apps are built and distributed via google play store/firebase. Ideally, you’ll have specifically worked on a banking app before, and understand how to implement best-practices in security to keep customer data safe.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Significant experience building Android apps.
• Up-to-date knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack compose and the drive to stay abreast of the latest features.
• A deep understanding of Architecture pattens such as Clean Architecture and MVVM.
• A deep understanding of design patterns such as Structural, Creational and Behavioural, together with their application.
• Knowledge on writing unit test cases.
• Hands on experience using advanced concepts such as Pagination and Asynchronous programming.
• Experience with Non-Functional aspects of Android app development such as Security, Performance, Analytics, logging, etc.
• A good Understanding of the Accessibility framework and its implementation specifics.
• A deep understanding of Android Studio instruments to identify and resolve critical issues related to memory leaks and diagnose crashes.
• Experience working with dependency management frameworks such as gradle, android artifacts, version catalogs etc.
• A thorough understanding of any Source Code Management tools, the code review lifecycle, and merge conflict resolution tactics.
• A thorough understanding of CI/CD, ideally using GitLab, and an understanding of how to build and maintain pipelines.
• A product mindset and the desire to produce positive customer outcomes.
• A passion for delivering high-quality user experiences that offer intuitive journeys to achieve user goals.
• Confidence to discuss and promote your thoughts and ideas to people at all levels.
• Experience of working in a Scrum team utilising Agile best practices.

The following are not essential but will be an added advantage:

• Knowledge on any UML based design tools.
• Hands on experience with functional programming and advance Kotlin.
• Experience in complex integrations with APNS, SSO and Associated Domains.
• Awareness about branching and release strategies.
• Awareness about app distribution mechanisms and approaches.