Job Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Mobile App Engineer to join our growing engineering team. The role holder will use their software engineering skills and experience to build features, solve bugs, address technical debt; bring a strategic lens to team operating processes and tooling to improve how we work and ultimately deliver valuable, high quality software to our customers. What you'll be doing
1. Building clean, maintainable features and resolving end-to-end issues with an understanding of different possible approaches, to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes to our customers as effectively as we can.
2. Ensuring that the solutions developed and deployed are fit for purpose, provide appropriate business value, adhere to quality standards and align to standard engineering practices.
3. Understanding and contributing to the strategy for the management of technical debt within the team to ensure that Legal & General’s systems are secure, resilient and reliable.
4. Analysing and defining test approaches and strategies within your team so that the customer experience is of the highest quality – with an emphasis security, usability and accessibility.
5. Conducting and participating in code reviews with an emphasis on both functional and non-functional requirements, considering, performance, resiliency, maintainability and security, to ensure that we build consistently high-quality software for our customers.
6. Enthusiastically promoting inspection and adaptation to improve team effectiveness & happiness, supporting changes to enhance processes and culture, to ensure that the team stays happy, productive, efficient.
7. Building a culture of mutual respect, collaboration and engagement within the team, coaching, mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers to develop and grow their skills.
8. Undertaking continuous research on relevant application technologies and identify and implement opportunities to incorporate those into the application as appropriate. Sharing your research and learning in developer forums.
9. Helping your team to ensure that all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s principles on the Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly policy.
Qualifications
10. React Native -
11. JavaScript/TypeScript
12. REST based microservice development, JVM Spring or Node.js
13. Strong understanding of mobile application architecture best practices (e.g. MVP, MVVM, Flux)
14. GraphQL, AWS Cloud Services, Docker
15. Hands on experience developing native Android or iOS apps
16. Strong understanding of clean code and clean architecture concepts (e.g. SOLID, Onion)
17. Strong understanding of at least one layered backend application architecture (e.g. three tier, hexagonal, onion)
18. Excellent knowledge of test driven development and testing pyramid
19. Scrum, Git / Git Flow, CI/CD
20. Excellent communication skills and good English spoken and written skills
21. Experience of writing large, well-optimised and maintainable software features
22. Experience of analysing, debugging and solving highly complex problems
23. Experience of participating and providing actionable feedback in effective code reviews
24. Experience of considering all of the relevant factors when deciding a technical approach
Additional InformationLegal & General is a leading financial services organisation, named in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future. We’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you. Share this article