Android Engineer at Sterling Bank

We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:

Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
An experienced Android Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable mobile applications.

We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.

Our Android app toolset

You'll get to work with industry standard tools and technologies and help us define what great looks like for Android engineers.

Our app is almost 100% Kotlin, built using MVP (Model View Presenter). Our app is modularised by product feature and consists of beautiful unconventional XML inflated layouts.

We use a mix of RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines, Retrofit and OkHttp for API calls and Dagger2 for dependency injection. We use Room for persistence, and Repositories for interacting with them.

# **About the role**

What will you be doing as our Backend Engineer?

You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.

Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including NodeJs, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Redis. As an Android Engineer you will:

• Design and build advanced, scalable applications for the Android platform
• Work with the Product and Design teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them pragmatic and effective technical solutions
• Integrate with our backend services (JSON, REST, etc.) to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users
• Own end-to-end product modules/features from requirement to going live
• Design and review code, troubleshoot and act as a consultant to team members on technical matters
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

You should apply if:

• you love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
• you deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
• you understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• you’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
• you are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
• you're proud about your craft and want to apply your skills building a product that will bring value to thousands of users.

Qualifications & Characteristics

• 2+ years experience with full life cycle Android application development and publishing Android apps in the play store.
• Worked on apps which support multiple Android devices.
• Knowledge about Kotlin, collections, algorithms and well-known application frameworks.
• Understanding of interactive application development paradigm under Android, memory management, file I/O, network programming, concurrency and multi-threading.
• Good understanding of design patterns, the latest framework and technical, including RxAndroid, Kotlin Coroutines, Lambda expressions and dependency injection.
• Experience in working with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Experience with testing frameworks, including Robolectric and Espresso is a plus.

Logistics

Our main office is in Marina Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.

# What the hiring process looks like... typically

• a take-home technical test which usually lasts for a week.
• an on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
• a short meeting with our head of engineering.

You'll be given an offer if you can pass these three stages.

We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to this process, or have other restrictions. If any of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer an alternative *please* let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of circumstances.