Android Technical Lead

The Company:

A leading financial institution based in Melbourne CBD are looking for an Android Tech Lead to join their team on a permanent basis.

This thriving company offers a supportive and flexible work culture, ongoing personal development opportunities and the chance to work on innovative products.

Remote working initially, with a view to spending 1-2 days a week in the office in the near future.

The Role:

As part of this role you will be expected to provide technical leadership across all aspects of the software delivery life cycle and all applications that the mobile service supports.

You’ll provide guidance and support to mid and senior team members, safeguard the code base and making sure the team are compliant.

They are currently changing form Java to Kotlin. This person will have excellent tech radar, and be able to suggest updates and changes to the tech stack that will benefit the team in the future.

You’ll work closely with solution designers, business analysts, product owners, user experience designers, quality engineers and engineering managers within an agile delivery environment to create great applications.

Responsibilities:

• Management of conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment
• Establish a team strategy and lead the team to implement towards this target state, continually improving our Development and Continuous Integration capabilities
• Working with business analysts, and user experience designers to ensure requirements are clear whilst offering technical input into the requirements process
• Working with solution designers to provide input into the design for any feature or application that the mobile service supports
• Active participation in all aspects of the software delivery life cycle and associated agile activities that the team undertake
• Coaching and mentoring of other engineers to uplift service capability and cross-skill individuals over time
• Continuous review, identification and improvement of engineering processes, practices and tooling
• Perform code reviews and provide timely and constructive feedback
• Participate in feature estimation from early ideation to delivery phases
• Technical design and coding of all mobile applications and microservices
• Working with a quality mindset to ensure applications are robust and appropriate code coverage is maintained and improved over time
• Continuous technical uplift and knowledge sharing with others including presentations to internal colleagues and external meet-ups/conferences

General skills:

• Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal and organisational skills
• Strong delivery focus with an active approach to quality
• Working with key stakeholders and the wider mobile service team
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting & documentation skills
• Able to work under pressure and self-manage tasks
• Enthusiasm for technology and solving problems
• Leadership qualities and skills

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Experience across the full software delivery life cycle (planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance)
• Agile software development and management methods and ability to excel within a fast-paced environment
• A solid technical background as an engineer within Android mobile development (Java, Kotlin)
• Experience working with diverse teams from development, testing, security, architecture, infrastructure to business and management
• Experience with build management tools including continuous integration and delivery practices and tools (Gradle, Jenkins)
• Experience with continuous test automation tooling (Perfecto, Applitools)
• Software design and delivery with UX and accessibility front of mind
• Experience with latest development methodologies and tooling
• Development experience using common IDE and source systems (Android Studio, Git)
• Writing unit and functional automation tests (Junit, Roboelectric, Espresso)
• Release and configuration management practices including parallel development (tagging/branching strategies), managing multiple versions and third party library dependency management
• Experience with repository artifact management (Artifactory)
• Knowledge of code quality analysis tools (coverage, duplication, complexity, dependency analysis and standards)

Desirable technical skills & experience:

• Experience working as an engineer within one or more alternate mobile application development technologies (Objective-C, Swift, React Native)
• Experience working as an engineer within one or more backend technologies, RESTful JSON APIs and microservices
• Experience with Query Languages for APIs (GraphQL)
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and managed services (AWS)

Benefits:

• High level of autonomy
• Work with the latest technology
• Work in a supportive, collaborative environment
• Be supported in your career development path and receive ongoing training
• Flexible working
• Healthy work/life balance

For more information, please apply now or email jcorner@welovesalt.com

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.