Android Engineer

JOB TITLE: Android Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: 35 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

We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime (Fraud and Financial Crime).

We’re seeking a talented Android Engineer to join our team. You’ll be responsible for designing and developing personalised and tailored offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience that protect our customers falling into scam and fraud. You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework and within Group standards and appetite while managing the full software development process within an agile environment.

What will I be doing?

• Collaborating across the Bank to ensure seamless integration of Android applications with other systems

• Having an excellent understanding of Agile software development and supporting continuous improvement of your team

• Contribute to levelling up how we design, build and operate mobile native software as scale within the Bank through the wider engineering community

• Technically mentor and develop your colleagues, providing clear and constructive feedback, through code reviews and design documents

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Excellent knowledge of Kotlin / Java

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

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

• Professional hands-on experience and working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android phones and tablets

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks and benchmarking and optimisation

• Unit, UI and Snapshot Testing

• Solid understanding of software architecture (MVVM), design patterns (SOLID, DRY) and best practices (specifically Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines)

• In-depth knowledge and experience of interacting with RESTful APIs

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive outcomes for customers

• A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.

• Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD).

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 underrepresented 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 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.