Job description
End Date
Thursday 03 October 2024

Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303

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Hybrid Working

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer - Android

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the office per week

SALARY: £68,202 - £90,936 pa. dependant on experience

About this opportunity

We’re looking for Senior Android Product Engineers to join our Mass Affluent Digital Experience (MADE) lab in Leeds.

Mass Affluent 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.

What do we need to see from applicants?

We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered we’ll need to see evidence of the following in your CV:

Essential:
• Excellent knowledge of Kotlin / Java
• 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

Desirable:
• 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
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers
• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.
• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• Experience of technical guidance and mentoring.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
• Collaborating across the Bank to ensure seamless integration of Android applications with other systems
• Having 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

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.

We were one of the first major 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Please note, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.