Android Lead Engineer

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Android Lead Engineer
Salary: £100,657 - £118,420
Location: London
Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels.

What you’ll do

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.

• Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers as appropriate.

• Work 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 positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

What you'll need

• A capable technical leader, who takes ownership of design and delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.

• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Kotlin and modern toolsets
  like Git, Android Studio, JUnit, Espresso and Jenkins

• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.

• You’re able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.

• You’re an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as CI/CD best practice, Pair Programming, TDD and BDD

What you’ll get to learn (any previous experience would be advantageous)

• Working in the public cloud domain at scale, primarily with GCP

• Solving real world problems and being comfortable working in a complex regulated environment

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

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.