Senior Android Engineer

Salary: £68,202 - £75,780 + excellent rewards package

Location: Bristol

Hours: Full - time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help! We're looking for experienced Senior Android Engineers (mobile engineer) to join our team.

Lloyds Banking Group is changing. We're continuing our extensive transformation Programme, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team where you'll impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows.

As part of this, we're redefining our digital capability, providing customers with simpler, continuous interactions across online, mobile and branches.

Our digital platforms (public website, mobile & tablet app, and internet banking website) are where the majority of customer and colleague interactions with the bank take place. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the introduction of public API's, growing numbers of devices to access them from and evolving operating systems.

We're passionate about our shared passion for delivering new features for customers across our brands in the mobile space. The Retail Lab mobile teams are part of the Retail Transformation directorate and are fully agile teams that strive for excellence.

Joining our team, you'll have opportunities to participate in internal Hackathons, coding challenges and bi-weekly platform meetings and be a member of a great engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

What minimum background experience and skills we're looking for:

A self- motivated Senior Android Engineers highly proficient in Android mobile development. You have technical know-how from crafting, developing, and producing mobile components and services, stakeholder management working closely with strategy and UX/UI Design teams to architect, design and implement solutions and you love mentoring and educating less experienced developers.

What we need from you:

• Professional hands-on experience and working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Fantastic knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks and benchmarking and optimisation.
• Proficient in Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines and code versioning tools, such as Git.

We're looking for hands-on experience of continuous delivery across areas such as:

• Modularisation.
• Jetpack Compose.
• Coroutines.
• SOLID principles with Clean Code Architecture.
• MVVM and MVI Architecture.
• Unit Test.

It would also be great if you had experience working with any of the below:

Gradle DSL, Kotlin DSL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web design as well as knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services.

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team?

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

Apply today and find out more.