Overview:

The goal of the Mobile Service is to design, develop and maintain Client of mobile and microservice applications.

As part of this role you will be expected to provide technical leadership across all aspects of the software delivery life cycle and all applications that the mobile service supports.

The successful candidate will be a senior engineer with a wealth of Mobile app development experience including the ability to provide coaching and mentoring for junior developer sand will have an operations mindset to enable the buildout of robust, secure and maintainable applications.

Responsibilities:

• Management of conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment
• Working with business analysts, and user experience designers to ensure requirements are clear whilst offering technical input into the requirements process
• Working with Principal Engineers on the design for any feature or application that the mobile service supports
• Active participation in all aspects of the software delivery life cycle and associated agile activities that the team undertake
• Coaching and mentoring of other engineers to uplift service capability and cross-skill individuals over time
• Continuous review, identification and improvement of engineering processes, practices and tooling
• Perform code reviews and provide timely and constructive feedback
• Participate in feature estimation from early ideation to delivery phases
• Technical design and coding of all mobile applications and microservices
• Working with a quality mindset to ensure applications are robust and appropriate code coverage is maintained and improved over time
• Continuous technical uplift and knowledge sharing with others including presentations to internal colleagues and external meet-ups/conferences

Requirements:

• Experience across the full software delivery life cycle (planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance)
• Agile software development and management methods and ability to excel within a fast-paced environment
• A solid technical background as a Mobile engineer with seasoned React Native experience and Kotlin/Java or Swift/Objective-C
• Experience working with diverse teams from development, testing, security, architecture, infrastructure to business and management
• Experience with build management tools including continuous integration and delivery practices and tools (Gradle, Jenkins)
• Experience with continuous test automation tooling (Perfecto, Applitools)
• Software design and delivery with UX and accessibility front of mind
• Experience with latest development methodologies and tooling
• Development experience using common IDE and source systems (Android Studio, Git)
• Writing unit and functional automation tests (Junit, Roboelectric, Espresso)
• Release and configuration management practices including parallel development (tagging/branching strategies), managing multiple versions and third party library dependency management
• Experience with repository artifact management (Artifactory)
• Knowledge of code quality analysis tools (coverage, duplication, complexity, dependency analysis and standards)

Soft skill:

• Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as good interpersonal and organisational skills
• Strong delivery focus with an active approach to quality
• Working with key stakeholders and the wider mobile service team
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting & documentation skills
• Able to work under pressure and self-manage tasks
• Enthusiasm for technology and solving problems
• Leadership qualities and skills