Android Software Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
Android Software Engineering Lead
£118420
Lloyds Banking Group, Tollcross, City of Edinburgh
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 2 days ago, 25 Sep | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 559c37d38afc4755b260937bc1e30d87
Full Job Description
- Primarily, you'll focus on the hands-on implementation of the labs mobile application features. We're looking to be number one in the UK banking market and have a range of exciting developments that you'll be central to implementing.
- You'll spend most of your time being a technical hands-on developer and act as an authority developing in Kotlin and Java, utilising the Android SDK and Jetpack Compose.
- Act as a technical authority in your area! You'll help mentor and coach upcoming to mid-level engineers, but you won't have formal line management responsibilities.
- Work as part of a self-organised engineering team, collaborating with solution architects & UI/UX designers to deliver mobile app features that delight all our customers through their ease and immediacy.
- Be a technical specialist and authority in your field, representing both the Digital Card & Ways to Pay Lab and the wider Everyday Banking Platform.
- You'll work closely 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 and innovate, aiming for engineering excellence at every opportunity.
Significant experience as a Senior Android Engineer and a passion to remain hands on technical. - Excellent programming skills with a deep working knowledge of Kotlin and Java, utilising the Android SDK and Jetpack Compose along with fantastic knowledge of the open-source Android eco-system.
- Diverse technical experience and a proven track record to deliver high quality mobile customer experiences across variable screen sizes and Android versions, you can act as an authority on best practice Android app architecture, principles and patterns.
- Experience mentoring staff up to senior engineering level. This is not a formal line management role, however as a senior management level technical specialist we would like you to be comfortable guiding and mentoring.
- You're an advocate for quality and can support the team using approaches such as CI/CD best practice, pair programming, secure coding, TDD and BDD Desirable:
- Working in the public cloud domain at scale, utilising hosted CI/CD pipeline and integrating the Android app with public cloud APIs.
- In terms of personal qualities you'll want to be effective communicator and comfortable working across diverse teams., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital banking franchise, with over 18 million app active customers across our three main brands - Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland. The Everyday Banking Platform plays a central role in supporting our customers through their savings & current accounts, as well as providing a market leading digital customer experience for servicing their debit and credit cards. We're on a transformation journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!, Our focus is to ensure that 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. We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. 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.
Salary & Benefits: £86,964 to £118,420 per annum (experience AND location dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.