Android Software Engineer

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa: UK: Gloucester

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Location: Bristol Filton Office

Working Pattern: Hybrid – 3 days onsite

What You’ll Be Doing:

This role will involve taking ownership of small software applications and stakeholder relationships. Due to the sensitivity of the work, limited context can be provided. However, this role will offer a variety of engaging activities, including:

• Software development across multiple Android applications
• Requirements elicitation
• Design tasks
• Engagement with user representatives for target systems
• Collaboration with system integrators across multiple platforms

This role would be ideal for a mid-level Android Engineer with strong interpersonal skills.

Essential Skills:

• Experience working directly with customers and end users
• Professional experience writing applications in Java or Kotlin
• A good understanding of Modern Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Able to obtain security clearance

Nice to haves:

• Experience eliciting user requirements
• Experience working with System Integration teams
• Professional experience writing Android applications
• Experience developing Android applications with Modern App Architecture
• Experience developing Android applications with Jetpack Compose

The Team:

For this role, you will work within a large project (approx. 50 people). Across the project, there is a large range of skill sets including Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers and Product Owners. The projects include a number of smaller agile development teams (approx. 4-8 people). This role will also involve the individual working closely with external engineering teams.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers an employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence:

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.