Senior Software Engineer - Android

Description & Requirements

Senior Android Engineer




The Role

• This role will be focused on helping us deliver excellent customer experiences for our Android banking and insurance customers.
• As a senior engineer, we'd be looking to you to lead feature builds and technical proofs of concepts, help advise on industry best practices, use your experience to assist in design and discovery phases and ultimately enhance our engineering team.
• Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
• Senior engineers are the lynchpin of our teams, working closely with junior engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer-term technology goals.

What we are looking for

• An individual keen to get involved. We expect everyone to get involved in the design and support of our customer journeys. Our teams perform best when we collaborate, and we rely on our senior engineers to help us make the correct decision.
• A passionate and knowledgeable engineer to share their experience. We know the journey of every engineer is different, so we encourage our senior engineers to actively mentor and support our junior engineers in their own journey.

Minimum requirements

• At least 3+ years of commercial experience
• Building new features, integrating SDKs, and assisting with diagnostic issues.
• Good knowledge of OOP
• Proficient in Kotlin / Java
• Dagger2
• Coroutines
• MVVM
• LiveData
• Flows ( optional )
• Unit and UI Testing
• Jetpack Compose ( optional )
• Navigation Component ( optional but strongly preferred )
• C.I. / C.D.
• Agile / Scrum
• SOLID principles
• Design patterns
• Integrating against RESTful APIs
• Resource control (Git)
• Experience with various SDKs / libraries

Our Purpose

The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it's an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that's changing the face of banking for our customers.

We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.

Requisition description

D&I statement - We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance.

Our colleagues are working remotely. Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our 'new normal' and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring for our wider team. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!