Senior Android Developer

ABOUT THE PROJECT

In today's digital world, HSBC needs to continuously develop innovative ways of customer interaction with our products and services. We are building new technology and enhancing our existing systems and offerings, to allow us to maximise the benefits of the latest technological advancements and trends.

This role will be within the Third-Party Services team. Third Party Services is focused on identifying and working with some of the most interesting external vendors from around the world to provide cutting edge products to the wider bank and our more than 40 million global customers.

One of our most strategic products is a global digital identity validation & authentication service that provides any market with the ability to verify a person's identity, via an API integration. We partner with a selection of third-party vendors to deliver real time identity and anti-impersonation checks as part of a digital journey.

Our product enables customer to capture their government issued identity document (including passport, driver's license, national ID card) and verifies the document's authenticity. This is then combined with fully digital anti-impersonation check.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES


Proactively collaborate in the project team to help develop the product using your experience to help guide the team through the whole development lifecycle.

Be hands on with Planning, estimating, contributing to the architecture, coding, development.

Refactor and continuously improve the code bases is vital.

Focus on SW quality and delivering quality throughout the whole process.

Ensure that technical decisions and information is communicated thorough the global team.

Take responsibility of releases and contributing to the ongoing support of the live apps.

Look beyond pure programming and get involved with the deployment and operation of the software we build.

Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE REQUIRE

Solid experience in Mobile Engineering.

Hands on experience using Kotlin to develop Android App.

Experience as a technical expert on the Android platform and competency with industry standard libraries with a good eye for design, should be able to implement latest Material Design components and animations.

Experience in Dagger2, Rxjava2, Retrofit2, familiar with third party lib integration.

Very good with UI and Core Architectural Design patterns.

Solid experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso as well as with source code versioning tools, specifically Github.

Familiarity with security concept and integration is must, like https, cert pinning, encryption and decryption and data protection.

Deep experience working on a team of Android engineers building and maintaining large scale apps, or apps that you have built personally.