Lead Software Engineer- Android- Nutmeg

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to Nutmeg for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing. Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company within the International Consumer Bank – Chase division offering award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 250,000 investors in the UK. We built the business from scratch, with constant innovation a core part of our ethos since the beginning. We aim to provide clients with the best digital investing experience, ensuring digital security and customer satisfaction – meaning you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference.

As a mobile engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Nutmeg, you will be part of a team with great ambitions. We aim to build a top-in-market suite of mobile and web apps to provide the best investment experience for our clients. Our mobile team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We’re looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about building quality software that has a big impact in a rapidly changing environment. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product team to understand user’s needs and follow an Agile SDLC to develop and deliver product features to the native Android Nutmeg application.
• Take ownership of tasks from the estimation stage right through until the release stage and post production.
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve existing or newly-identified prioritised defects.
• Write tests for all code you deliver and adhere to best practices/standards, ensuring high-quality code.
• Take ownership of, or assist others with, bi-weekly releases and associated processes.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring high code quality and continuous development and learning for yourself and your colleagues.
• Be someone who enjoys knowledge sharing, who is keen to attend and participate in some of the many skill share sessions we regularly hold in the iOS team and across the wider Engineering department.
• Propose/contribute/collaborate on Technical Initiatives - improving and evolving the existing codebase and toolset.
• Be keen to ensure that we focus on solving the essence of the problem rather than merely dealing with the symptoms.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• English working proficiency is a must, you will be working with the team in London.
• Commercial experience on native Android mobile application development using Android studio.
• Good Knowledge of object-oriented programming with Kotlin, Java.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of basic software principles like SOLID.
• Experience writing unit tests using JUnit or Kotest or any modern framework.
• Experience working with Multimodule code using CLEAN architecture.
• Experience with the MVVM and MVP design pattern and other relevant architecture patterns.
• Experience with Dependency injection pattern using Dagger or any other framework.
• Experience with best practices in mobile design (UI design guidelines, Multi-threading, Asynchronous operations etc).
• Good knowledge of core Android libraries and frameworks like Compose, Coroutines, Flows, RxJava, Retrofit, Security.
• Experience with Android application deployment (testing, approval, publishing to Play store).
• Experience with automated CI/CD processes and tools (we use Bitrise/Jenkins but this is not a pre-requisite).
• Experience with monitoring and alerting in order to maintain a production application.
• Good understanding of REST and what it means to work with APIs.
• Experience with Git flow.
• Good communication skills, you can work well within a delivery team and manage interactions with other parts of the organisation, such as Product and Operations.
• Curious about new ways of working and open to different approaches and ideas.
• Proactive and willing to help others put forward ideas.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills - nice to haves

• Experience writing Instrumentation tests using Espresso, Compose Tests, UI Automator or other framework.
• Experience building or working with Design Systems (UI Development, White-labelling).
• Experience with modularisation and dependency injection.
• Appreciation for Accessibility and understanding of how to meet Accessibility requirements.
• Understanding of Mobile Application Security considerations.
• Experience with React Native with feature flagging and A/B testing methodologies.
• Experience in the FinTech sector.
• Show us your Github/Stack Overflow/app portfolio!

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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