Senior Software Engineer, Android

Job Description Summary

As a senior software engineer, you are a core team member on whom the team relies to consistently deliver high quality solutions. You take

ownership to help the team reach their goals, including actively sharing knowledge and providing feedback. You can identify and initiate activities to address improvement areas within the team. With a mature view on technical governance you have a long term perspective of the team's components and applications.

Key accountabilities

• Develops high quality code using the most appropriate techniques e.g. design patterns
• Designs solutions to meet the requirements (business and tech). Able to challenge and proactively suggest improvement to requirements
• Contributes to best practice, pro-actively looks to improve status quo e.g. can the team improve logging, performance testing etc.
• Focused and engaged in team commitments, takes ownership to help the team reach their goals
• Constructively critique solutions and code of peers
• Actively seeks to automate where relevant with a shift left mindset (catch bugs early during development)
• Follows and implements good practices in quality assurance (e.g. BDD, TDD)
• Confidently makes decisions affecting the team

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• Can work independently and writes high quality code using appropriate techniques creating performant solutions
• You have experience working with different systems and architectures which you can draw on to contribute to the solutions in your team.
• Ability to code review, give and receive feedback
• Ability to break down technical GAP documents/requirements into deliverable work items
• Experienced with automating to improve efficiency and catch defects early
• Good communication skills to work with team and stakeholders
• Understanding and adoption of good practices such as TDD, BDD
• Experienced in incident management
• Experienced in writing, executing and analyzing performance tests
• Ability to effectively represent the team in stakeholder discussions using domain concepts and language
• Understanding of risk assessment and impact analysis
• Good grasp of secure development
• Experienced in working with agile practices and able to suggest improvements to the team's process
• Maintain the team's CI/CD pipelines
• Use appropriate code analysis tools to improve code quality and security