Senior Android Engineer

Salary: £97,200 – £121,200 per year

Senior Android Engineer Job Details:

Our client is committed to Help Britain Prosper and become the best bank for customers. As part of this, they redefining their digital capability, providing customers with simpler, continuous interactions across online, mobile and branches. their digital platforms (public website, mobile & tablet app, and internet banking website) are where the majority of customer and colleague interactions with the bank take place. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the introduction of public API’s, growing numbers of devices to access them from and evolving operating systems.

They are now looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join their team.

The team

The team is passionate about their shared passion for delivering new features for customers across their brands in the mobile space. The Retail Lab mobile teams are part of the Retail Transformation directorate and are fully agile teams that strive for excellence. Joining their team, you’ll have opportunities to participate in internal Hackathons, coding challenges and bi-weekly platform meetings and be a member of a great engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

Who you are?

A self- motivated Senior Android Engineer proficient in Android mobile development. You have technical know-how from crafting, developing, and producing mobile components and services, stakeholder management working closely with strategy and UX/UI Design teams to architect, design and implement solutions and you love mentoring and educating less experienced developers.

Senior Android Engineer Skills required:

• Professional working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Awesome knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks and benchmarking and optimisation
• Proficient in Google’s Android design principles, interface guidelines and code versioning tools, such as Git
• Our client is looking for hands-on experience of continuous delivery across areas such as code reviewing; understanding of basic App architectures (i.e. MVP) and you’ll be confident with best practices libraries (Dagger2, RxAndroid, Retrofit, Butterknife)

Nice to have:

• Cloud message APIs and push notifications
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web design as well as knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services
• MVVM architecture, Android Architecture Components

What you’ll get from the role as a Senior Android Engineer

You’ll be working with like-minded team members, and you’ll also be able to grow your own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities. Did you know our client offer agile working patters from working 1-2 days per week from home, full-time, part-time, job share or flexible work schedules, for example start and finish times, or compressed hours!

What you’ll get in return:

Salary and Benefits package: Competitive base salary, plus excellent benefits including a 4% flex cash pot to spend on benefits (or take as cash), generous employer pension contribution up to 15%, 30 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, discretionary variable annual performance bonus and private medical health cover, share schemes and access to staff discounts!

Together you’ll make a difference. Our client is invested in your continual development. That’s why they’ve fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing!

How to Apply:

If you meet the above criteria for the Senior Android Engineer role, please respond to this with an up-to-date copy of your CV, quoting both the reference number and title for the job/s you are interested in. Our office hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday through to Friday. You may not hear from us straight away due to the level of applications we receive every day. We can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position.

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