Senior Android Engineer

American Express; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Amex Flex (Hybrid Work Model)

Retirement Savings Plan

Parental Leave & Nursing Mothers Rooms

24/7 Mental Health Counselling

Wellness Centers & Health Living programs

Paid Time Off

Career, Training and Learning

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Mid-Senior level Senior Android Engineer to join their team. This full-time role focuses on architecting, designing, and building an Android travel mobile app. The ideal candidate will have experience in mobile application development, strong knowledge of relevant tools and technologies, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. Company benefits include a hybrid work model, retirement savings plan, and numerous wellness programs.

Qualifications

• Experience in writing high-quality code for mobile applications.
• Ability to set up development environments and infrastructure.
• Strong performance analysis and optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and build the Android travel mobile app.
• Lead reviews of colleague’s work and mentor junior team members.
• Monitor system performance and improve software quality.

Skills

Writing & Deleting code

Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI

Finding and fixing bugs

Performance Analysis and Optimization

Dealing with legacy code

Unit & Integration Tests

Working in a globally distributed team

Self-starting and good at time management

Designing solutions for open ended problems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jetpack Compose

REST APIs

OkHttp

Kotlin

RxJava

Job description

Join to apply for the Senior Android Engineer role at American Express

American Express entered the travel agency business in 1915, and today is one of the world’s largest luxury travel and lifestyle service networks. The Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) business provides exclusive access, differentiated value, extraordinary service, and unrivalled expertise to Card Members seeking leisure or business travel, as well as a variety of lifestyle services. The Global Digital Customer Experience is a strategic focus area for growth within Travel and Lifestyle Services and there is significant continuing investment to transform and optimize our digital proposition and capabilities. American Express Travel Online not only drives direct revenue and cost savings but also plays an important role in overall Card product engagement, loyalty and satisfaction.

How you will make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to architect, design and build the Android travel mobile app.

Software Development

• Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.
• Writes and delivery high quality code
• Leads review of colleague’s work
• Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.
• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.
• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components
• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership

• Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.
• Mentors and coaches junior team members
• Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.

Relevant experience and skills

• Writing & Deleting code
• Build tools like Gradle, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI
• Finding and fixing bugs
• Performance Analysis and Optimization
• Dealing with legacy code
• Unit & Integration Tests
• Working in a globally distributed team
• Self-starting and good at time management
• Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore.
• Designing solutions for open ended problems
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Relevant technologies that you may encounter on our team

• Jetpack Compose
• REST APIs
• OkHttp
• RAML API Documentation
• Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow
• RxJava
• GitHub Actions
• Circle CI
• Test Fakes
• WireMock

Company Benefits

• Amex Flex (Hybrid Work Model) – providing greater flexibility to colleagues
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Parental Leave & Nursing Mothers Rooms
• Backup and In-home Child and Elder Care
• 24/7 Mental Health Counselling
• Wellness Centers & Health Living programs
• Paid Time Off
• 100% Global Pay Equity
• Career, Training and Learning – American Express Leadership Program, LinkedIn Learning, American Express & Harvard Leadership Program
• Exclusive Deals and Discounts

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering