Senior Software Engineer - Android

Senior Software Engineer - Android

Locations: London

Time Type: Full time

Posted On: Posted Yesterday

Job Requisition ID: 115608

End Date: Thursday 03 October 2024

Salary Range: £78,849 - £118,274

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary:

We're looking for Senior Android Product Engineers to join our Mass Affluent Digital Experience (MADE) lab in London. Mass Affluent is the segment of customers with between £50,000 and £5 million in investable assets. We have close to three million Mass Affluent customers, and we are working hard to create greenfield personalised and tailored offerings to ensure a beautiful banking experience.

What do we need to see from applicants?

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 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 at 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'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

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

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

About Us

For over 320 years we've been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. With us, you'll be helping Britain prosper.

You'll be part of an ever-changing industry, playing a key role in shaping the financial services of the future whilst supporting our customers' changing needs.