Lead Android Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking a Lead Android Software Engineer for its Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform. This role involves leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality customer-driven software, while coaching and developing junior engineers. Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills in Kotlin, experience with Android Studio, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams. The role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams & projects.
• Ability to deliver high-quality applications at scale.
• Good communication skills across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a self-organized engineering team to develop software features.
• Ensure software operates as intended through efficient project lifecycle management.
• Mentor junior engineers and help them grow.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Kotlin

Knowledge of Git

Experience with Android Studio

Understanding of Jetpack Compose

Familiarity with Junit and Espresso

Experience with TDD and BDD

Job description

JOB TITLE: Lead Android Software Engineer

LOCATION(S): London or Bristol

SALARY: London - £104,686 - £125,000 Bristol - £90,440 - £110,000

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our London office

On-call Required

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a Lead Android Software Engineer. You'll be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model.

You'll work to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the engineering teams. Working in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended.

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

About You

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.

• Proven experience in leading software engineering teams & projects within large, distributed systems.

• A capable technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.

• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.

• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What you'll need

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Kotlin and modern toolsets like Git, Android Studio, Junit, Espresso and GitHub.

• Solid knowledge on software architecture patterns.

• Strong knowledge in Jetpack Compose

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.

• You're able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

• You're an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD

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. 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!