Android Software Engineer

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for an Android Software Engineer. As the Android Software Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

What we are looking for

An Android Software Engineer for PEC will have broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

We would be looking for the following

• Excellent Native Mobile Development in Android (Kotlin)
• Extensive experience of JavaScript
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as Reactjs, Redux, Webpack.
• Commanding grasp of HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Experience on Front-End test automation
• Familiarity with server-side REST APIs and JSON
• Working with the Strategy and UX/UI Design teams as well as customer organizations to architect, design, and implement solutions.
• You're excited by the changing Android landscape, and care deeply about learning new technologies and patterns

It would be great if you also had

• Creating and managing frameworks in a modular codebase
• Knowledge of unit testing using Quick/Nimble
• Experience of reviewing other developers’ code
• Experience with scripting languages, e.g. ruby
• PromiseKit, Jenkins, Fastlane

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office.