Software Engineer - Android

Bjss; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech consultancy is looking for an Android Developer to join their team in Edinburgh. The role involves building an enterprise mobile platform using Kotlin and collaborating in an Agile environment. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in Android development, knowledge of RESTful APIs, and familiarity with continuous integration practices. The company offers flexible benefits, health and wellbeing support, and a collaborative working culture.

Benefits

Flexible benefits allowance

Industry leading health and wellbeing plan

Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Training opportunities

GymFlex gym membership programme

Qualifications

• Proven Android development in a production context.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and offline storage.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Help build an enterprise mobile platform within various sectors.
• Experiment with the latest tools and technologies.
• Work confidently with version control systems.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

RESTful APIs

Git

Agile environment

Job description

About Us

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

About the Role

We love to experiment with the latest tools, technologies and techniques to improve how we deliver our solutions, and we want you to help us build an enterprise mobile platform within a variety of sectors.

About You

• Proven Android development in a production context (Kotlin)
• Understanding how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Experience with offline storage, threading and performance tuning
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Confident working with version control systems (Git)
• Strong appreciation of OO Design Patterns, Unit Testing and TDD practices
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Experience with continuous integration
• Experience working within an Agile environment
• Azure cloud knowledge

Some of the Perks

• Flexible benefits allowance – you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts – we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back – the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join– quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get togethers
• GymFlex gym membership programme