Senior Android Engineer

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. We're passionate about our shared passion for delivering new features for customers across our brands in the mobile space. The Retail Lab mobile teams are part of the Retail Transformation directorate and are 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., Architecture & Development:

• Design, implement, and maintain core Android libraries, frameworks, and tools used across the company's Android applications.
• Development of scalable, reliable, and efficient code that enables the platform to evolve and support new features.
Platform Optimization & Performance:
• Analyse and optimize performance for the Android platform to ensure low memory usage, high responsiveness, and smooth user experiences.
• Conduct rigorous code and design reviews, ensuring high standards in terms of code quality, maintainability, and performance.
Tooling & Infrastructure:
• Build and maintain internal tooling, libraries, and components that improve developer productivity and application quality.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines to streamline testing, debugging, and deployment processes, ensuring fast and reliable releases.
Research & Innovation:
• Stay current with the latest Android SDK, tools, and industry trends; evaluate and integrate new technologies as appropriate to enhance the platform.
• Experiment with and promote innovative solutions to improve user experience and overall app quality on Android devices.
  
  We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help! We're looking for experienced Senior Android Engineers (mobile engineer) to join our team. If you're a self- motivated Senior Android Engineer and highly proficient in Android mobile development, then this is the role for you!, Platform Expertise: Strong experience with Android frameworks, multi-module architecture, dependency injection (e.g., Dagger/Hilt), and asynchronous programming (e.g., Coroutines).
• Performance Optimization: Proven track record in performance tuning, memory management, and debugging for Android applications at scale.
• Architecture & Design: Solid grasp of architecture patterns (MVVM/MVI, Clean Architecture) and modularization strategies for large codebases.
• Collaboration Skills: Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with team members across different departments.
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git, GitHub/GitLab.
• Testing Practices: Experience in unit testing, UI testing, and familiarity with testing frameworks like JUnit, Espresso, and Robolectric.
Just so you know, we will be asking you to complete a technical task during the interview process. We hope you find it fun, interesting and challenging.

Why Lloyds Banking Group Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too. What you'll need We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing!, 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.

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 under-represented 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.
• Generous holiday allowance, 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.