Jobs at Asos – Lead Android Engineer

Job Description:

Our Technology team pioneer incredible solutions that change the way our millions of customers can access fashion. We believe that fashion can make you look, feel and be the best version of you and it’s this feeling of empowerment that we want our ASOSers to experience while working with us.

Our Mobile Team is looking for a Lead Android Engineer to help push our application to new heights. You will be working closely with the wider technical teams to deliver a 5* rated application.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review designs and journeys with Product Owners and UX/UI specialists
• Knows how to coach and motivate their team
• Works with other engineering leads to share best practice
• Knows how to guide their team to continually improve
• Work with other developers to write software based on backlog items
• Promotes excellent engineering practices
• Has experience of recruitment and reviews
• Work with our Product Owners and Platform Leads to understand business requirements
• Has solid experience in Android development
• Work with our Solution Architects to ensure the solution delivers the required quality and adheres to best practice and understand impact to wider ASOS eco-system
• Understands and can guide others in engineering principles and design patterns
• Work with testers to ensure they are engaged and ready to test the software at the right time in the development cycle
• Has an excellent of understanding of agile practices
• Provides technical leadership to their team

Job Requirements:

• Experience in TDD and testing suites (e.g. Robotium, Espresso, …)
• Strong experience with fragments and techniques for building apps that support different layouts for smartphones and tablets
• Experience with ADB and Gradle
• Know RxJava / reactive programming
• Experience in writing custom UI components and libraries
• Understanding of some server-¬side technology and REST API development
• Great understanding of memory management and optimisation techniques
• Experience with all the usual stuff (multi-threading, integration with REST APIs, view animations, custom transitions)
• You are a passionate Android developer that is up to date with the latest Android News from Google as well as building projects in your spare time.
• Are proficient with Kotlin
• Experience in writing home screen widgets
• Proven Android Development experience with consumer facing apps
• Experience with Git

Job Details:

Company: Asos

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Manchester, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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