Flutter Engineer in London

We have a new opportunity for an experienced Flutter Engineer at Obviously Group Limited, a subsidiary of RWS Holdings. This role has been created to strengthen our capacity and ensure we can continue evolving and enhancing our product suite. The position will play a key part in driving forward the development and progression of our three core applications, ensuring we can deliver new features, improve performance and maintain a modern, scalable front-end experience.

By expanding the team, we’ll be able to accelerate delivery, increase our responsiveness to product needs and ultimately improve overall client satisfaction across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Flutter front-end features across the three Obviously applications, supporting application progression and client satisfaction.
• Translate product, design and client requirements into clear, responsive and accessible user experiences.
• Work closely with product, QA, backend and client-facing colleagues to clarify requirements, manage dependencies and deliver agreed outcomes.
• Contribute actively as a mid-level member of the Front End team, bringing a clear voice, considered opinions and constructive challenge.
• Participate in estimation, planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives, helping the team make pragmatic technical decisions.
• Support peers through code reviews, knowledge sharing and clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understand the commercial impact of delivery choices, balancing speed, quality, maintainability and client priorities.
• Provide realistic estimates and flag risks or blockers early so that scope, cost and timelines can be managed effectively.
• Look for opportunities to reduce rework and technical debt across the application estate.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested Dart/Flutter code in line with team standards and agreed architecture.
• Support release readiness through debugging, testing, performance tuning, documentation and issue resolution.
• Maintain consistency across the three apps, including reusable components, shared patterns and reliable integration with services and APIs.
• Share Flutter and front-end knowledge with colleagues and contribute to team documentation and reusable examples.
• Give and receive feedback openly, using reviews and retrospectives to improve ways of working.
• Take ownership of personal development and stay current with Flutter, mobile and front-end engineering practices.

Skills & Experience

• Solid understanding of Flutter and Dart, including widgets, layouts, state management, navigation and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of front-end application architecture, API integration, responsive UI, accessibility and cross-platform delivery.
• Awareness of agile delivery, version control, testing approaches and release processes for production applications.
• Ability to build polished, performant and maintainable Flutter user interfaces from designs and product requirements.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving and code review skills, with the ability to explain technical choices clearly.
• Confident collaboration skills, including communicating estimates, risks, trade-offs and recommendations.
• Commercial experience as a front-end or Flutter developer at mid-level, contributing to production applications.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary product or engineering team, ideally across more than one app or shared codebase.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with backend APIs, authentication, analytics or other application services.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with Flutter testing, CI/CD pipelines, app store or web release processes, and monitoring production issues.
• Familiarity with design systems, reusable component libraries, accessibility standards or localisation/globalisation considerations.
• Knowledge of native iOS or Android development, common state-management libraries or automated testing frameworks.

Behaviours

• Team player who is proactive, dependable and willing to support colleagues while taking ownership of assigned work.
• Has a voice and an opinion, and can challenge constructively while remaining open to feedback and other perspectives.
• Pragmatic, curious and quality-focused, with a desire to improve products, processes and user outcomes.

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