Mobile AVP Software Engineer
Barclays · Posted Nov 5
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff7+ years₹35.0L–₹55.0L yearly100+ applicants
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About the role
Barclays is building a dedicated Mobile team with Android expertise to support growing demand for mobile customer experiences and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. The team develops modern Android applications, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and secure release processes. This role will design, develop, and improve software, collaborate with product, UX, architecture, security, platform, and QA teams, and ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance requirements.
What you will do
- To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
- 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
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
- They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required 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.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- 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.
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.
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in Android mobile development.
- 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.
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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