Android Software Engineering Lead

Location: Edinburgh or London (2 days per week in office and rest from home)

Salary & Benefits: £86,964 to £118,420 per annum (experience AND location dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, flexible benefits package, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

The opportunity;

A great opportunity has arisen for an Android Software Engineering Lead in the Everyday Banking Platform in Lloyds Banking Group, where you'll have the chance to craft digital journeys that excite all our customers through their ease and immediacy.

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital banking franchise, with over 18 million app active customers across our three main brands - Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland. The Everyday Banking Platform plays a central role in supporting our customers through their savings & current accounts, as well as providing a market leading digital customer experience for servicing their debit and credit cards. We’re on a transformation journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!

What you’ll do;

• Primarily, you'll focus on the hands-on implementation of the labs mobile application features. We’re looking to be number one in the UK banking market and have a range of exciting developments that you’ll be central to implementing.
• You’ll spend most of your time being a technical hands-on developer and act as an authority developing in Kotlin and Java, utilising the Android SDK and Jetpack Compose. 
• Act as a technical authority in your area! You’ll help mentor and coach upcoming to mid-level engineers, but you won’t have formal line management responsibilities.
• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team, collaborating with solution architects & UI/UX designers to deliver mobile app features that delight all our customers through their ease and immediacy.
• Be a technical specialist and authority in your field, representing both the Digital Card & Ways to Pay Lab and the wider Everyday Banking Platform.
• You’ll work closely with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence and innovate, aiming for engineering excellence at every opportunity.

What we’re looking for in your application;

• Significant experience as a Senior Android Engineer and a passion to remain hands on technical.
• Excellent programming skills with a deep working knowledge of Kotlin and Java, utilising the Android SDK and Jetpack Compose along with fantastic knowledge of the open-source Android eco-system.
• Diverse technical experience and a proven track record to deliver high quality mobile customer experiences across variable screen sizes and Android versions, you can act as an authority on best practice Android app architecture, principles and patterns.
• Experience mentoring staff up to senior engineering level. This is not a formal line management role, however as a senior management level technical specialist we would like you to be comfortable guiding and mentoring.
• You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team using approaches such as CI/CD best practice, pair programming, secure coding, TDD and BDD

Desirable:

• Working in the public cloud domain at scale, utilising hosted CI/CD pipeline and integrating the Android app with public cloud APIs.
• In terms of personal qualities you’ll want to be effective communicator and comfortable working across diverse teams.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that 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 organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.