Lead Android Developer Job at 360 Resourcing Solutions (London)

Job Description

The Lead Android developer will be responsible for the strategic leadership of technical excellence in the field of Android application development. The role is tasked with ensuring the planning, scoping and delivery of Android client projects to the highest quality. The Lead Android Developer brings passion for innovation, process, and technology to the agency and its client projects. Strong leadership and communication skills are required as the role includes pitching to clients and client management. The Lead Android Developer drives for excellence by continually assessing and optimising relevant development methodologies and approaches to maintain the agency’s production of best-in-class work.

Job Responsibility

Contributing to scoping, planning and estimating sessions to build products as per agreed specification on time and on budget
Responsible for producing detailed technical documentation including pitch responses, technical write ups and solutions documents
Ensuring that changes in scope are well communicated and planned for
Responsible for mentoring other team members
Early identification (and mitigation) of risk where required
Supporting the troubleshooting of live project issues out of hours when required
Assisting the Director of Technology by providing ownership and leadership on projects with minimal oversight
Promoting the cause of Android Development within the agency via presentations and demos
Contributing to the refinement of in-house development processes and best practices including departmental standards
Always looking to deliver cost savings and process optimisation through the ongoing search for an improved and value oriented management toolset
Direct line management of the Android development team to include roles & responsibilities, expectation setting to achieve effective planning, running and delivering projects
Supporting the team through guidance, training, example-setting, motivation, troubleshooting assistance, feedback and project oversight
Educates and mentors staff ensuring that the team follows agreed development related company processes & procedures
Conducting the staff appraisal process
Supporting the hiring process of new team members
Responsible for implementing key strategies to reduce technical debt within the codebases and ensuring that these strategies are followed by more junior members of the team
Technical authority for all major architectural decisions within the codebases with a view to improving longevity and ongoing maintainability

Requirements

Extensive skills and experience
Worked as a Lead or in a Senior capacity for a minimum of two years
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Ability to independently manage and lead meetings, workshops and project playbacks to senior stakeholders
Excellent attention to detail
Forward planning and strategic thinker
Calm under pressure and ability to lead others in the same manner
Able to clearly present the relative merits and associated risks of any proposed
Expert knowledge of video on demand technologies and workflows, including an understanding of streaming technologies & protocols and player technologies (including advert insertion)
A keen focus on producing clean, well documented and robust code
An expert understanding of code versioning using git
Strong experience of software testing practices and principles, including unit testing
A good working understanding of the concepts of continuous delivery pipelines and their implementation
Experienced with evaluating and integrating 3rd party libraries as per project requirements
Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflow tooling e.g code completion, code validation

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