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Senior Android Developer

Blink

Blink

Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Oct 21, 2024

Hybrid position: working 3 days a week from our London office

Blink is an employee app for frontline workers. Our award-winning product has industry-leading levels of engagement, with a DAU of 99% – and we've got so much more to achieve. Scalability, automation and precision are at the heart of what we do. We're never shackled down by convention; always open-minded, always moving forward.

💻 What will you be doing?

You will work as part of a world-class team of engineers, designers and testers building the Frontline of the Future. The applications you will help build are used by thousands of customers daily and make a tangible difference in their day-to-day lives.

Responsibilities include:

  • Working on our native Android application and helping them be the best in class.
  • Focusing on delivery; ship code often and responding to customer feedback or issues quickly.
  • Working within a cross-functional team to learn from and help guide the future direction of the Kotlin based Android app.
  • Debugging, bug fixing, profiling and improving application performance.
  • Continuously improving (build) tools and developer experience; automating repetitive tasks, simplifying existing processes and documenting APIs and behaviour.
  • Writing clean, well-documented, testable, maintainable code.

🚀 About you

We're looking for someone who is ambitious and wants to develop in a fast-growing company. The successful candidate will be resourceful, inquisitive and a fast learner. You’ll be able to pick up new concepts quickly and empathise with customer pain points. We’re also looking for:

  • Proficient with Kotlin, common Android Frameworks and using reactive patterns.
  • Strong understanding of mobile databases.
  • Detailed knowledge of architectural patterns and how to apply them.
  • Skilled in writing responsive, accessible, and maintainable UI components.
  • Experience with unit and integration testing, continuous integration and delivery.
  • Examples of published apps you’ve worked on before.

💙 About us

We're a friendly bunch.

Motivated, positive and social; we're all different, but these traits tie us together. We work closely as a team and genuinely value each other's opinions. Most of all, we try and learn as much as we can from one another, through knowledge sharing and healthy debate.

Our diverse backgrounds and interests make our engineering culture unique. We are parents, polyglots (in both spoken and programming languages), cyclists, musicians – and so much more.

💰 What we offer

You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of!

Benefits include:

  • Competitive salary – and equity in the company
  • A quirky, spacious, natural light-filled office in London
  • 25 days a year off (plus public holidays!)
  • Private healthcare, Ride2Work, pension scheme

At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or age.