Lead Android Application Developer in London

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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions' Avigilon Alta Video brings Cloud video security systems to the next level. Alta's cloud-based video surveillance solution offers industry leading full AI video analytics and exceptional operational insights. The Alta Video engineering team injects intelligence into their approach to security and all their solutions. They help organisations see, understand, and act on their surroundings to protect people, business, and reputation in real-time.

Job Description

This role is working on a hybrid basis, with the expectation of working out of our London offices during part of the week. We are looking for a passionate and experienced Lead Android Developer to join our growing team. You will drive the development of our native Android application using Kotlin with Compose. As a Lead Developer, you will be responsible for setting the technical direction and making critical decisions regarding the Android codebase architecture and long-term maintainability. If you care about creating great user experiences, writing solid and maintainable code, and continuously improving existing code, then you are the person we are looking for!

Our apps incorporate a wide range of interesting and technically challenging features that you will help to shape and improve:

• Rendering high resolution video in a performance critical environment via WebRTC.
• Working with large volumes of data in a performant way.
• Designing and implementing new UI components.
• Investigating and improving performance and scalability as new features are added.

At Avigilon Alta, you will make a defining contribution to the development of our products, by:

• Writing high-quality code with creativity and passion.
• Conceptualising, designing and following up on implementation of new functionality in close collaboration with product management, designers, and frontend and backend developers.
• Improving current work, in regards to processes and tools.
• Staying up to date with the latest developments within design and technology, and suggesting short and long-term solutions.

Although we are looking for someone who wants to focus completely on mobile applications, there is scope for using technologies across the stack, including in web application using Vue and Typescript, and other tools to aid development that are written in Go.

Basic Requirements

We are looking for someone who:

• Has extensive experience working as a Senior software developer.
• Has extensive experience in building native Android applications.
• Has deep expertise with Kotlin.
• Is passionate about writing high-quality code and defining development standards.
• Can demonstrate outstanding technical ability and architectural vision.
• Has experience with modern Android Architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean Architecture).
• Is familiar with Room, Coroutines, and Flow for data persistence and asynchronous operations.
• Is familiar with Jetpack Compose.
• Has familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Wants to design and implement new functionality and collaborate with colleagues who work with product, user experience, and backend.
• Has the experience and confidence to take ownership of the Android codebase, making independent and informed decisions on its architecture and future direction.
• Wants to improve and optimise our application in terms of maintainability, performance, and security - both from customer feedback and using your initiative.
• Loves staying up to date on technology and is happy to suggest short-term and long-term improvements.
• Can suggest new ideas to the team to help us improve the product, and as developers.
• Is proficient in English and a good communicator.

We expect you to be proactive, take ownership of the product and make decisions accordingly. You will have room to explore new technologies and shape development according to your own wishes. We are looking for a team player who enjoys solving complex problems and thrives working autonomously, while not afraid to ask for input and learn from their teammates if they’re stuck.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching and development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement.