Android Lead Developer

Job Description

We are searching for an experienced Android development lead to work in a product centric role to help us on our mission of striving to make investing easier for all.

We like winning awards, and we want you to help delight our users by creating award winning apps.

You will put users at the forefront of the way you think and be passionate about great user experience and user interface design.

You will be able to deliver tested, resilient, and performant code against a fast-paced environment. Your role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission by developing, shaping, and iterating our customer facing Android applications.

What does the job involve?

• Lead and engage a strong Android development team to push our mobile platform forward to the next level.
• Support on improving our modularised/frameworks between our internal Android development projects.
• Understand and improve our CI/CD pipelines from development through to release.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code and beautiful products.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code.
• Ensure and strive for the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
• Help build improved collaboration between our iOS and Android development teams.
• Work collaboratively alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of infrastructure.
• Ensure that all duties are carried out with the aim of protecting customers and improving customer experience.
• Supporting and enabling the business to achieve its regulatory requirements, including consumer duty.

Competence, Knowledge and Skills

• Strong commercial experience in native mobile development.
• Experience in developing consumer facing, high-performance Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK and all of its components.
• Understanding of design patterns & SOLID principles.
• Strong knowledge with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
• Understanding of Android design principles and interface guidelines.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 528,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to …