Role:
Graduate Application Developer
Salary: £25,000-£30,000 per annum
Location: Tadcaster
Benefits:
1. Competitive salary + a performance-based incentive paid quarterly.
2. Hybrid working: Offering flexibility and a great work-life balance.
3. Generous holiday allowance: 23 days holiday + bank holidays + an additional ‘Celebration Day’! You can also buy or sell holiday days to suit your needs.
4. Amazing core benefits: Life assurance, access to the award-winning app with GP appointments, counselling, and more, plus exclusive retail discounts.
5. Personalised additional benefits: Tailor your benefits to your needs with a flexible benefits scheme. Receive a ‘Flex Pot’ to spend on additional benefits like Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Annual Gym Memberships, Critical Illness Cover, Increased Pension Contributions, Annual Travel Insurance, and more. Many options include coverage for your partner and children too!
6. Free refreshments: Enjoy complimentary on-tap soft drinks and premium hot drinks.
7. Development opportunities: In-house training, and support to pursue external qualifications and apprenticeships.
Are you:
8. Looking for an IT graduate skilled in Java and app architecture with demos built in GitHub looking for an App Developer role that’s out of the ordinary?
9. Interested in joining a growing team of specialists who support their colleagues and clients?
10. Working in IT/App Development and looking for your next career move?
11. Someone who enjoys challenges and will join a growing IT team driving the business forward, working with internal/external stakeholders, driving simplicity while providing solutions?
Your typical day as an Application Developer:
In this newly created role, you’ll be at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and modernising an in-house field service application, ensuring it delivers a seamless and intuitive user experience that meets the evolving needs of the business and users. Collaborating closely with the development team, you’ll leverage your expertise in Java, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM architecture, and the HILT Library to build and optimise the application for robustness, scalability, and performance.
Your daily responsibilities will include troubleshooting issues, developing new features, and refactoring code to maintain the application’s high quality. You’ll be monitoring performance, analysing user feedback, and integrating new technologies to enhance functionality and usability. Implementing best practices and optimising code will be key as you work to keep our app at the cutting edge.
In addition to hands-on development, you’ll contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, and compliance efforts, ensuring that their processes uphold industry standards and prioritise data security and privacy. Your role is critical in driving continuous innovation and improvement in the mobile app development, empowering the team to deliver high-quality solutions that contribute to the success and satisfaction of their users and stakeholders. Working alongside passionate colleagues, you’ll help ensure that their app not only meets but exceeds expectations, aligning with our mission through exceptional service and technology.
The successful candidate:
Essential:
12. Our client is open to graduates with a related IT degree looking for their first role, experienced in Java, application architecture ideally with demos in GitHub
13. Experience in application development
14. Proficiency in Java programming language
15. Understanding of Android app development principles and practices
16. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
17. Effective communication and teamwork abilities
18. Ability to stay updated with emerging technologies and trends in the Android ecosystem
Advantageous:
19. Proficiency in Kotlin programming language
20. Familiarity with Jetpack Compose for UI development
21. Knowledge of MVVM architecture and its implementation in Android applications
22. Understanding of the HILT Library for dependency injection
23. Experience with Microsoft Azure servers and services
24. Proficiency in managing and optimizing SQL Server databases
25. Knowledge of Azure SQL Database management and performance tuning
26. Ability to debug and optimise code for performance and scalability
27. Experience with performance profiling and optimisation techniques
28. Prior experience with maintaining and modernising in-house built applications