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 £60,000
• 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

PLEASE NOTE: You must have the legal right to work in the UK to apply for this role as Atom is unable to support Visa Applications/Sponsorship

Atom is an equal opportunities employer. We value you as an individual and therefore disregard race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership and disability in any hiring decisions we make. Atom will always adhere to the Equality Act 2010.

All roles within Atom must adhere to the Conduct Rules as set out by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

As part of Atom bank’s commitment to the FCA’s Consumer Duty, Atom will, take all reasonable steps to avoid causing foreseeable harm to customers, take all reasonable steps to enable customers to pursue their financial objectives and act in good faith.