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Each month, Barclays delivers hundreds of changes to its mobile banking applications and supporting services. This role works closely with delivery teams to review, merge, build, and release changes to Android mobile banking applications from across the bank, ensuring they are delivered in a secure, high-quality, and repeatable manner. The Android Software Release Engineer will help ensure that frequent change is delivered safely and reliably, while maintaining strong engineering standards, release controls, and compliance with Android platform requirements.
Job Responsibility:
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
Requirements:
Good level of Android application development competency, including a solid understanding of how Android applications are built, packaged, and signed
Awareness of the requirements and constraints for delivering applications to the Google Play Store, including build variants, versioning, and release processes
Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and enhancing build pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab Pipelines
Strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle, from source control through build, test, and release
Nice to have:
Good understanding of mobile release governance, including artefact versioning, dependency management, and promotion of builds across environments
Well organised, with strong attention to detail
Ability to manage multiple work requests and adjust priorities as needed