Senior Android Engineer

  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Aug 16, 2023
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Java

Job Description

End Date
Sunday 20 August 2023

Salary Range
£66,861 - £100,292

We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary
Job Title: Senior Android Engineer
Salary: £66,861 to £100,292 depending on experience
Location(s): Bristol, Birmingham or Leeds
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity:
Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!

A great opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing And Engagement Platform for a Senior Android Engineer to work with an amazing team building propositions for the bank s retail Digital banking channel.

As an Android Engineer you ll have opportunities to help drive a great engineering culture, building great code and be a member of a wider engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Android Engineer

SALARY: £66,861.00 - £80,290.00 GBP

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!

A great opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing And Engagement Platform for a Senior Android Engineer to work with an amazing team building propositions for the bank s retail Digital banking channel.

As an Android Engineer you ll have opportunities to help drive a great engineering culture, building great code and be a member of a wider engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

Here s where you ll make a difference:

We re looking for a self- motivated Senior Android Engineer, proficient in Android mobile development. You ll 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 ll love mentoring and educating less experienced developers.

Security is at the heart of everything we do at LBG, and our Engineers contribute to building a secure culture. It ll feature as a key part of your role - having a secure mindset to provide strong and resilient business solutions that safeguard our business and customers from security threats.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you ll need -

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing!

You ll be someone who can contribute to the technical leadership team's work of driving the technology and future of the platform. 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.

We re looking for a great candidate who can demonstrate:
  • Professional 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
  • Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
  • Awesome 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 code reviewing; understanding of basic App architectures (i.e. MVP) and you ll be confident with best practices libraries (Dagger2, RxAndroid, Retrofit, Butterknife).

And any experience of these would be really useful.
  • Cloud message APIs and push notifications
  • HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web design as well as knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services
  • MVVM architecture, Android Architecture Components
  • Experience with Agile principles and methodologies and usage of related tools - JIRA and Confluence


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


Want to do amazing work, that s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

Join our journey.

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.