Senior Android Software Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Gildersome; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Leeds seeks a Senior Android Software Engineer to work within the Segments & Propositions Team. This role involves collaborating across the bank to ensure seamless integration of Android applications and mentoring colleagues. The ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge of Kotlin and experience in agile development. This position offers a hybrid working model and comes with a generous benefits package including up to 15% pension contribution and 30 days of holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Kotlin.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK and UI design principles.
• Professional experience in designing mobile experiences.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem.
• Experience with unit, UI, and snapshot testing.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to ensure seamless integration of Android applications.
• Support continuous improvement of Agile software development within the team.
• Contribute to design, build, and operation of mobile software.
• Mentor colleagues and provide constructive feedback.

Skills

Kotlin

Android SDK

Android UI design principles

Mobile experience design

Unit Testing

RESTful APIs

Agile development

Tools

Git

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Android Software Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000 per annum

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office.

About this opportunity

We're looking for Senior Android Software Engineers to join our Segments & Propositions Team in Leeds. Segments & Propositions 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 offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers' fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll do

• Collaborate across the Bank to ensure seamless integration of Android applications with other systems

• Have 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 as 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

What you'll need

• Excellent knowledge of Kotlin

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

• Professional hands-on experience and working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android phones and tablets

• 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

• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).

Any experience of these would be really useful

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers

• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.

• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring

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 are disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits package

• 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!