Senior Mobile Engineer

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Role Description

As a Senior Mobile Engineer (Flutter), you will have strong commercial experience using Flutter across primarily mobile platforms. Ideally with native iOS/Android development experience. You will use your wider technical experience to collaborate with your peers and other teams.

You will be expected to write well designed, testable and efficient code to implement new features and improvements to Allica mobile applications. You will have an architectural approach to your code. Making sure code is scalable, easy to maintain and well thought out. You will share your passion and experience with others and encourage a collaborative culture as well as supporting less experienced team mates to grow and develop.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams, developing our Flutter app and collaborating with other teams
• Plan and prioritise your work, with the appropriate input from others
• Build up a solid understanding of the domain you are working in, and proactively identify and clarify new requirements
• Help run your community of practice, encouraging broad participation
• Use your understanding of Allica and its goals, to identify ways to enhance client relationships & develop new capabilities
• Mentor and support more junior colleagues e.g. through pair programming, answering questions

Personal Attributes & Experience

• Collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders to drive alignment, build trust, and foster engagement across multiple areas.
• Strong Flutter/Dart commercial experience used in applying good design patterns resulting in highly testable code
• Swift/ObjectiveC/Java/Kotlin language skills or experience in a strongly typed modern language.
• Experience with different architectures such as MVVM, MVP, VIP etc. Modularising features and application structure.
• Hands on experience with mobile UI development:
• Collaboration with designers using tools like Figma
• Developing within a design system
• Accessibility/Localisation/Responsive UI
• Extensive experience with:
• Git source control (e.g. git flow, trunk-based development, interactive rebasing)
• Testing frameworks covering Unit, Integration, UI Snapshot (golden) testing
• Code quality and formatting tools
• Working in an Agile environment (following Scrum/KANBAN)
• Collaborating with designers, test engineers and 3rd parties
• A solid understanding of:
• SOLID principles and TDD/BDD
• Continuous integration and setting up of a CI/CD environment
• Assuring quality gates and policies met on pull requests to trunk
• Mobile apps security (networking and certificate pinning, storage, code obfuscation, anti-tamper protections)
• REST APIs and microservices architecture
• Ability and passion for technology in general. Interest in learning new skills outside of their area

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities

• Options for flexible working

• Regular social activities

• Pension contributions

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Private health cover

• Life assurance

• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Don’t tick every box?

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.