Android Developer – Inside IR35

A Global Private bank in the UK provides transactional banking services to their clients, the majority of which are payments (domestic and international). The current platform in which they do this is called 2g (2nd generation) and this is over 10 years old. 2g was replaced by GSP and GSP was replaced by banking 2.0.
                                                                       
What you will be doing:
 

  • Proactive collaboration in the project team to help develop the product using your experience to help guide the team through the whole development lifecycle
  • Hands on with Planning, estimating, contributing to the architecture, coding, development
  • Refactoring and continuous improvements of the code bases is vital.
  • Focus on SW quality and delivering quality throughout the whole process
  • Ensuring that technical decisions and information is communicated thorough the global team
  • Taking responsibility of releases and contributing to the ongoing support of the live apps.
  • Keen to collaborate with others, and you’ll give thought about how software fits into the bigger picture
  • Experienced in Continuous Delivery practices and how they affect product quality and delivery
  • Experienced with a range of agile practices and understand how and why they work
  • We promote a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.
  • Have strong experience building highly productive teams of technically talented engineers
  • Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets

What you will bring to the role:

  • Solid experience in Mobile Engineering
  • Hands on experience on using Kotlin to develop Android App
  • Experience as a technical expert on the Android platform and competency with industry standard libraries
  • Should have a good eye for design, should be able to implement latest Material Design components and animations
  • Have experience in Dagger2, Rxjava2, Retrofit2, familiar with third party lib integration
  • Very good with UI and Core Architectural Design patterns
  • Solid experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso
  • Experience with source code versioning tools, specifically Github
  • Familiar with security concept and integration is must, like https, cert pinning, encryption and decryption and data protection
  • Deep experience working on a team of Android engineers building and maintaining large scale apps, or apps that you have built personally
  • We promote a DevOps culture so you will need to look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.
  • You should be comfortable with pair programming.
  • Credibility and ability to influence stakeholders convincingly with well-considered logic.
  • Knowledge of agile project management with cross functional teams, using Jira and Confluence.

Hybrid Working