Android Engineering Lead

Job Description

We’re Atom bank

The bank that’s leading the fintech charge!

We’re not like the rest. We’re true innovators, and we’re redefining what a bank should be. Ours is a bank for today and the future, a mobile-first bank. Forget the stuffy branches, with Atom you can bank whenever, wherever, faster, and simpler.

Could you be the next innovator to join us?

This role can be remote first, however as this is a leadership role there is an expectation to attend our office monthly.

What will your ‘typical’ day look like… (there’s no two days the same in Atom):

Atom’s Technology team is made up of: Engineering, Delivery, Change, Service Management, Security & Architecture. These capabilities are distributed across multiple cross-functional product teams known as Value Streams. They design, develop and deliver a customer journey that is secure, performant and user-friendly, ensuring we remain a leader in the fintech space.

Engineering can be further broken down into Test, Platform, Frontend and Backend disciplines. Android development is recognised as a sub-discipline of Frontend Engineering, with a well-established community of engineers. This role will be activity managed within the Enterprise Value Stream and coached by the Head of Engineering. In this role you’ll be both a technical expert and an outstanding coach. You’ll provide coaching and technical leadership to Android Engineers working across different delivery teams and represent a point of consistency and consultancy for Android development in Atom.

This role will be split 50/50 between coaching & hands on coding and will have the autonomy to shape Android Engineering within Atom, whilst ensuring the technical roadmap is maintained. It will also focus on modularization as we look to improve the delivery of new products and be involved in high level technical discussions.

You will also:

• Identify and champion best practices for Android development.
• Arrange regular Android meetings and track actions.
• Create and maintain Android roadmaps.
• Where appropriate, setup and monitor a mentoring hierarchy for the Android Engineers.
• Create and maintain a list of training resources relating to the Android estate
• Work with Android Engineers to define coding standards and best practices.
• Facilitate the maintenance of Android documentation.
• Support the establishment and refinement of release processes for Android codebases.
• Participate in hiring processes and prep the onboarding of new Android Engineers.
• Maintain oversight of Atom’s Android Banking Application, acting as a consultant for multiple Value Streams
• Facilitate an effective merge request process for the Android codebase(s).
• Be responsible for core/major dependency updates that impact on multiple value streams.
• Lead technical discussion, drawing on the expertise of other areas to make stack-wide decisions.
• Be a point of contact for incident investigation and resolution.
• Ensure that all developed components have the appropriate level of quality and governance (version control, documentation, unit testing, secure development).
• Work closely with third parties to facilitate integration and smoke testing.
• Lead the construction of proof of concepts and evaluate their effectiveness using data.
• Where agreed, participate in out of hours support.

What do we need from you?

• Strong working knowledge of Kotlin
• Experience of Jetpack Compose
• Knowledge of coaching best practices
• A holistic understanding of Mobile App Engineering including modularization experience
• Considerable development experience including contribution to solution design and technical documentation production.
• Conversant with SOLID and OOP principles and Software Design Patterns, BDD and TDD.
• Experience of UX Development including responsive designs and accessibility, RESTful API integration, securing applications and secure messaging.
• Clear communicator both written and verbally
• Experience of working closely with third parties and external systems providers

What you’ll get from us:

• Flexible Hybrid & Remote working.
• 4-day work week
• Annual Share Option – performance-related
• Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input)
• ‘All About Me’ fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development
• 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life Insurance & Critical illness cover
• Electrical Vehicle Scheme