Senior Mobile Engineer - Android

Job Title: Senior Mobile Engineer - Android

Salary:  £78,849 - £96,371 pa.

Location:  London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the office per week

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. Together, we’re here to help Britain prosper – putting the ever-evolving needs of our customers at the heart of everything we do, as they move through their financial life with us.

Across our Consumer Platforms we’ve achieved so much in recent years, building our strong brands into thriving ones, the UK’s biggest digital bank and the widest branch network. Our multi-service, multi-brand offer is a unique strength, and we will work hard to ensure our brands continue to grow and succeed.

The way our customers want to deal with us is continuing to change, and they are telling us they need more from us. They need a seamless digital experience, with personalised products and services at their fingertips.

Are you passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems? Can you Build strong relationships and work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations.  Across our Engineering teams, we’re creating new opportunities and products to improve customer experiences for years to come.

We’re always looking for good Software Engineers!  You’ll be taken through a centralised application, technical testing, and interviewing process, then if successful offered one of our available roles depending on your chosen location.
 

Unfortunately we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

What do we need to see from applicants? 
  

We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered we’ll need to see evidence of the following in your CV: 

Essential: 

• Excellent knowledge of Kotlin / Java 

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices 

• Professional hands-on experience and working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android phones and tablets 

Desirable: 

• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks and benchmarking and optimisation 

• Unit, UI and Snapshot Testing 

• Solid understanding of software architecture (MVVM), design patterns (SOLID, DRY) and best practices (specifically Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines) 

• In-depth knowledge and experience of interacting with RESTful APIs 

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers 

• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change. 

• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD). 

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills 

• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring. 

Here’s how you’ll make a difference: 

• Collaborating across the Bank to ensure seamless integration of Android applications with other systems 

• Having an excellent understanding of Agile software development and supporting continuous improvement of your team 

• Contribute to levelling up how we design, build and operate mobile native software as scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community 

• Technically mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, through code reviews and design documents 

About working for us 

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms 

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. 

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance 

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?  Apply today and find out more. 

Please note, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.