Mobile AVP Software Engineer
Barclays · Posted Nov 5
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff8–12 years₹35.0L–₹55.0L yearly100+ applicants
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About the role
Barclays is expanding its digital landscape and mobile customer experiences with a dedicated Android mobile team. The role focuses on Android engineering using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern architectural patterns to accelerate digital initiatives and reduce delivery bottlenecks. The engineer will build modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls and release automation while collaborating with product, design, architecture, security, platform and QA teams.
What you will do
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Build modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls and release automation.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owner, UX Designer, Solution Architect, Security, Platform and QA teams to deliver integrated digital solutions.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, governance and regulatory requirements.
- Support cross-platform initiatives through working knowledge of iOS development principles and mobile ecosystem standards.
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
- Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong Android development experience with expert knowledge of Kotlin and experience supporting legacy Java codebases.
- Android SDK, Android Studio & Jetpack Components.
- Experience building modern Android applications using (XML and Jetpack Compose, Navigation Component and Compose Navigation, Architectural patterns (MVVM, MVP), Kotlin Coroutines and Flows and Dependency Injection (Hilt / Dagger)).
- Strong understanding of- Android lifecycle management, state handling and side-effect management, notifications and permissions.
- Experience with networking technologies such as Retrofit and OkHttp.
- Strong knowledge of- Gradle, Modularisation strategies, Build optimisation.
- Experience with automated testing using (JUnit, Mockito and/or MockK, Compose UI Testing).
- Experience with: CI/CD pipelines, ideally Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, Snyk
- GitFlow and Trunk-Based Development
- Android App Bundles (AABs) and release processes
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Firebase, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of application architecture, dependency management, and maintainable code design.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in Android mobile development.
Preferred qualifications
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan
Group Chief Executive
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Anna Cross
Group Finance Director
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Alistair Currie
Group Chief Operating Officer
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