Join us as an Android Principal Engineer
- 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.
- We're offering this role at vice president level
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 with Up-to-date knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack compose and the drive to stay abreast of the latest features.
- A deep understanding of Architecture patterns such as Clean Architecture and MVVM and design patterns. 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, Accessibility, logging, etc.
- Experience working with dependency management frameworks such as gradle, android artefacts, version catalogues etc.
- A thorough understanding of any Source Code Management tools, CI/CD pipelines, the code review lifecycle, and merge conflict resolution tactics.
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
04/03/2025
Top Skills
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
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