Senior Android Engineer

Job Description

What will your ‘typical’ day look like? Different that’s for sure…

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 Savings Value Stream and coached by the Android Engineering Lead.

As a Senior Android Engineer at Atom, you’ll be responsible for developing cutting-edge mobile applications using Kotlin and provide technical steer for the team design activities. You’ll continually provide detailed technical input across the development lifecycle and be a key contributor to the Android team activities and point of contact for app releases. You’ll work on a variety of features, from designing intuitive user interfaces to optimizing app performance and collaborate with a talented team of engineers, contribute to technical decisions, and lead initiatives to improve our development processes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write high quality, performant and secure code.
• Take ownership of a variety of items, including complex features and dependency updates.
• Collaborate with other Android Engineers on large, high impact tasks.
• Design and develop data models/structures, API integrations and fundamental application framework
• Proactively identify the technical impact of product delivery.
• Contribute to technical design and ensure associated artefacts are documented to agreed standards.
• Be a point of contact for incident investigation and resolution.
• Provide technical input in value stream meetings, including planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Contribute to the design of the Android roadmap.
• Conduct personal research and contribute to proof of concepts.
• Where required, mentor less experienced engineers.
• Where agreed, participate in out of hours support.

What do we need from you?

• A significant understanding of Android development, including associated tooling and frameworks.
• Strong working knowledge of Kotlin.
• A holistic understanding of Mobile App Engineering.
• Conversant with SOLID and OOP principles and Software Design Patterns as approaches
• Experience of RESTful API integration, securing applications and secure messaging using a variety of methods
• Clear communicator both written and verbally
• Strong experience with Android Studio, Git, and CI/CD processes
• Strong knowledge of Android libraries and APIs
• Experience writing unit and UI tests using Mockito/Mockk and Espresso
• Strong knowledge of dependency injection and app modularisation.
• Experience with working with shared codebase with other developers.

What you’ll get from us?

• Flexible hybrid working (Newcastle from September)
• Salary up to £45,000
• 4-day work week
• Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input – you can put in more)
• ‘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
• Electric Vehicle Scheme