Lead Software Engineer/Developer (Android)

Job Title: Lead Android Software Engineer/Developer. 

Salary & Benefits: £70,900 to £86,600 per annum, plus benefits listed below. 

Hybrid working: Two days per week in the office and three days working from home. 

Flexibility Works: We're extremely flexible employers, offering a range of options to suit your lifestyle including flexible hours, flex-summer holidays, flex-bank holidays, great parental support and a real focus on finding work-life balance! We trust our colleagues to work in a manner that suits their circumstances and personal commitments. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the everchanging needs of our 26 million customers. We're embracing collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for an Android Engineer.  
 
Here’s where you’ll make a difference: 
 
You have a can-do attitude coupled with an interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills and are willing to learn are highly motivated with a passion for working with people.  You’ll work in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You’ll also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. 

Additionally, you’ll: 

• Own and continually improve upon our Messaging Android entry points and integration of Mobile SDK with a 3rd Party. 

• Contribute to the Android chapter and help it address more complex problems that require new approaches to be introduced. 

• Coach and help develop more junior members of the team, including other data scientists, graduates and apprentices. 

About you 

• Strong experience with Android frameworks, multi-module architecture, dependency injection (e.g., Dagger/Hilt), and asynchronous programming (e.g., Coroutines). 

• Proven track record in performance tuning, memory management, and debugging for Android applications at scale. 

• Integration of external 3rd party SDKs in Android. 

• Solid grasp of architecture patterns (MVVM/MVI, Clean Architecture) and modularization strategies for large codebases. 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with team members across different departments and engineers from 3rd party SaaS provider. 

• Proficient in Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines and code versioning tools, such as Git. 

• Experience in unit testing, UI testing, and familiarity with mobile testing, including frameworks like JUnit. 

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%. 

• An annual performance-related bonus. 

• 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 

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. 

We'd love to hear from you!