ANDROID MOBILE ENGINEER

Company: Freetrade

  • London
  • Software Engineering
  • Mid-level
  • Individual Contributor
  • November 09, 2024
  • Annual Salary: GBP 50,000
  • London
  • Software Engineering
  • Mid-level
  • Individual Contributor
  • November 09, 2024
  • Annual Salary: GBP 50,000

🤖 Finny's Job Summary:

Freetrade in London is seeking an Android Mobile Engineer to join their team. The role involves developing new features, ensuring high app performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining code quality. The ideal candidate has 2-3 years of experience with mobile app development, strong problem-solving skills, and knowledge of Android tools.

Job Description

Android Mobile Engineer
London

At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings, but for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach. We’re here to change that.

We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives to help us on our mission to demystify investing. Our goal is to help our customers achieve better long-term financial outcomes.

In 2024, we’ll be focusing on making our business cash flow profitable. We’ll also be radically improving our product for our core customer base. In the UK, we now have over 1.6 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.

The Freetrade Android mobile application provides the functionality for customers to access investment opportunities across the financial markets in the UK, US and EU. 

We are looking for an Android mobile engineer to join our team at Freetrade.

The role requires someone with a good understanding of the Android mobile platform, ability to problem solve, and passion to improve their skills and deliver within a highly collaborative team.  

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with knowledgeable and experienced mobile engineers across both iOS and Android platforms, that will help develop your abilities.

You will work on implementing new features as well as ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction by assisting in handling customer queries and feedback. In collaboration with design, product and QA teams you will craft new user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will...

  • Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade Android app. Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including backend, design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features. 
  • Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
  • Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues

You have...

  • Typically around 2-3 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
  • Strong ability to problem solve and passion about improving your skills and knowledge
  • Good understanding of mobile architectural patterns, such as MVVM or MVI
  • Experience in using industry-standard tools for Android development, such as Kotlin, Dagger, Jetpack libraries
  • Experience of using reactive libraries, such as coroutines or Rx
  • Good understanding of Android frameworks development, with either an imperative or declarative approach
  • Familiarity with using APIs to connect Android applications to backend services.
  • Started to develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines.
  • Working understanding of using code versioning tools (such as Git).
  • Appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).