Business Function
Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Technology, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.
About the role
We're hiring experienced Android Engineers to join our banking mobile app team. You'll build new features, keep the app fast and stable, and help grow junior engineers through mentoring and code reviews. This is a hands-on engineering role.
Responsibilities
Design, build and ship new features for a hybrid banking app
Profile and optimise app performance and memory usage
Apply security best practices in day-to-day development
Write clean, tested and maintainable code
Review code and mentor junior engineers
Work closely with product, design, QA and web teams in an Agile setup
Take features from development through CI/CD to Play Store release
Requirements
A track record of shipping and maintaining production apps on Google Play
Strong skills in Kotlin and Java
Solid understanding of the Android SDK and component lifecycles
UI development with both Jetpack Compose and XML Views
Reactive programming with RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines/Flow
Architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVP and Clean Architecture
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Dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger, Hilt or Koin
Networking with Retrofit/OkHttp and REST APIs
Local data storage with Room / SQLite
Experience building and optimising hybrid apps, including communication protocols between native and web layers
Multi-module Gradle builds
Performance optimisation: finding and fixing memory leaks, profiling, and improving app startup time, ANRs and UI jank
Security best practices: secure storage (Android Keystore), certificate pinning, code obfuscation (R8/ProGuard) and OWASP mobile security guidelines
Unit and UI testing with JUnit, Mockito/MockK and Espresso
Git, CI/CD pipelines and the Play Store release process
Crash and performance monitoring tools
Experience reviewing code and mentoring junior engineers
Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional teams
Location
DBS @ UE Biz Hub
Job
Technology
Schedule
Regular
Employee Status
Full time
