Senior Flutter Developer

The successful candidate will provide expert level hands on Flutter design and development across multiple systems in the Digital Engineering area with specific responsibility to ensure that solutions are designed to meet the business and customer needs, matching expectations for quality and reliability.You will participate in the delivery and implementation of both in-house and external solutions via Agile delivery to ensure solutions are compliant with the design and development standards and are fit-for-purpose. Your responsibility will be to support the achievement of team service level targets by owning the completion of all assigned work requests, including testing, quality checking and delivering all assigned tasks within the agreed time-scales. You will maximise the business' potential of BT/EE apps and sites as the most efficient sales and service channel. This will be demonstrated through efficiency and quality of coding and in harnessing new internet and app technologies. What you'll be doing

• Leading the software engineers in your agile squad and working with wider stakeholders in delivering FE journeys to BT and EE's customers
• Driving the technical standards, culture and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider business
• Working with the wider engineering community within and outside of BT to contribute to our front-end frameworks and tooling
• Hands on development of FE code in React, NextJS, GraphQL and other frameworks
• Code reviews for the squads output
• Day to day line management, Recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the front-end squad engineers, helping build both their careers and BT's front-end capability
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles
• Working with the Product Owners, Architecture and test from across the group on solution architecture for your squads deliveries
• Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities
• Defining the monitoring strategy and inlife support for your team's journeys including being part of an oncall rota
• Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant
• Representing BT within the wider tech community helping communicate your own and the departments achievements
Skills
• Write code from an approved requirement and design in accordance with the expected delivery timeframe and associated quality standards
• Write unit tests and other automated tests
• Peer review software written by team members
• Contribute to tribe improvement initiatives
• Contribute to tribe ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, demo, retrospective)
• Drive forward items from the tribe improvement initiatives
• Contribute to technical direction and strategy of the tribe
• Contribute to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions
• Investigation and resolution of production incidents
• Deliver tooling improvements for the delivery pipeline
• Technical design of solutions to business requirements
• Engage / influence the roadmap of our vendors' products
• Contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups
  
  Experience of working within a true 'DevOps' environment, involving automated testing, continuous delivery practices and a high level of collaboration
• Experience of using Jenkins and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket
• Experience of a range of relevant technical languages from Dart (Flutter), Objective C and Swift (iOS), to Android (Java) and Kotlin development.
• Software design and development experience integrated with web services. Experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.
• Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming etc.
• Have a good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and supporting technologies.
• Experience you would be expected to have
• Have 3 or more years commercial knowledge / experience of at least one of Flutter, iOS or Android development, and ideally some knowledge of Flutter. We are currently transitioning to Flutter as our strategic technology for App development, but relevant experience in Native iOS or Android development and willingness to learn Flutter would be acceptable.
• Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team.
• Good communication skills - written and verbal
• Ability to contribute to ongoing process improvement activities in the team and look for ways to make a difference.
• Communication of complicated technical requirements to the business leaders and project teams in non-technical language.
• Communication of technical requirements within project teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to engineer solutions to business requirements.
• Good interpersonal and teamworking skills.
• Ability to manage their own time and assist others to meet sprint commitments in terms of functionality delivered
Our leadership standards Looking in: Leading inclusively and Safely I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity. Owning outcomes I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation. Looking out: Delivering for the customer I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business. Commercially savvy I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making. Looking to the future: Growth mindset I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.


• Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance
• Direct share scheme
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as 'My EV'