Mobile Android Principal Engineer - Permanent

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Working Model

Highly Competitive Market Rate Salary on offer

Paritas is working with a leading Retail banking client who is looking to bring a Principal Mobile Android Engineer to their team based out of their london offices.

What you'll do

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust. You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with significant experience in Android software engineering, software design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.

Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in leading and supporting software development Scrum teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Strong skills in developing Mobile applications using Kotlin, Java and Jetpack Compose
• Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development (TDD) and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
• A background of working with code repositories like GitLab, bug tracking tools and wikis