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Senior Android Engineer

Consumer Servicing & Engagement – MADE Lab

Location: London based, hybrid working with 2 days per week in the London Wall office (near Bank, Moorgate, St Paul's stations)

Salary & Benefits: £77,301 to £85,890 base salary based on experience and grade, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We offer flexible working hours, to give you a good work life balance, agile working practices and are a very family friendly company.

Lloyds Banking Group:

Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods.

LBG Labs:

A Lab is a made of one or many teams who work together on key projects to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. Typically, a Lab has a solid focus on problem solving in an agile environment where engineers are creating innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us.

Why we’re doing this?

We're committed to Help Britain Prosper and become the best bank for customers. As part of this, we're redefining our digital capability, providing customers with simpler, continuous interactions across online, mobile and branches. Our digital platforms (public website, mobile & tablet app, and internet banking website) are where the majority of customer and colleague interactions with the bank take place. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the introduction of public API's, growing numbers of devices to access them from and evolving operating systems.

The team:

We’re passionate about our shared passion for delivering new features for customers across our brands in the mobile space. The Consumer Servicing & Engagement platform mobile engineers work in fully agile teams that strive for excellence. Joining our team, you’ll have opportunities to participate in internal Hackathons, coding challenges and bi-weekly platform meetings and be a member of a great engineering community passionate about sharing knowledge and learning.

About You:

A self- motivated Senior Android Engineer proficient in Android mobile development. You have technical know-how from crafting, developing, and producing mobile components and services, stakeholder management working closely with strategy and UX/UI Design teams to architect, design and implement solutions and you love mentoring and educating less experienced developers.

Required:

• Professional working knowledge in designing a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android

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

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

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

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

We’re looking for hands-on experience of continuous delivery across areas such as code reviewing; understanding of basic App architectures (i.e. MVP) and you’ll be confident with best practices libraries (Dagger2, RxAndroid, Retrofit, Butterknife).

Nice to have:

• Cloud message APIs and push notifications

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive web design as well as knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services

• MVVM architecture, Android Architecture Components

What’s in it for you?

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, promotes equal opportunity, and provides opportunities for flexible working in a collaborative environment.

We will provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that takes a strong focus on equal opportunity and supports career progression on all levels. Enhancing your personal and professional development is something that is very important to us, and we will work with you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. We want you to learn, grow & develop to become the best possible version of yourself.

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided suitable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, Together We Make It Possible!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.