Junior Android Developer

Our Commitment to DE&I

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

About Moneybox

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.

Job Brief

Moneybox is growing at a rapid pace with more and more people using our app to help save and invest for their future. To support this growth we are looking for an Android Developer to help develop and own parts of the android application.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Junior Android Developer to join our team. Each mission works in a fast paced environment using the Shape Up methodology to ensure we deliver meaningful projects to our customers. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop & release features for the Android application.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data analysts to refine ideas into solutions that our customers love.

• Own area(s) of the application, responsible for all aspects of the product delivery cycle.

• Propose and implement improvements to our application, architecture and delivery pipeline.

• Learn from and influence our fun, passionate and experienced team.

About the stack

• Our app is fully modularised, split into separate features and written using the latest libraries from Android Jetpack.  You will be working on the latest technologies in the Android ecosystem and contribute to how our architecture evolves to enable us to deliver rapidly and reliably to our users.

• Our Architecture is organised into single responsibility layers.  We build new features using Jetpack Compose, Android’s modern UI toolkit.  Our domain layer uses the MVVM design pattern and we use Coroutines and Flows in our data layer.

• We release the app every single week using a release train . So your work is shipped to customers as soon as it’s ready!

Who you are

• Experience in developing Android applications.

• Proficient in Kotlin (or Java) with good programming knowledge.  Preferably with a Computer Science background or equivalent experience.

• Ability to create rich user interfaces with support from other developers. Ensuring user experience & quality is at the forefront of everything you do.

• Good communication and listening skills. Ability to work with relevant stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver features that satisfy customer needs.

• Eager to learn and expand your technical knowledge. Ability to learn by yourself and from others.

Why join

• Work on features used by hundreds of thousands of users, helping people to save and invest for their future!

• Develop using the latest technologies and contribute to our ever evolving project. 1 week out of every 8 to exclusively work on technical improvements and learning.

• Ownership of everything you do. Contribute to the features you develop and feel rewarded for the impact you have on the app.

• Excellent opportunity for career growth and leadership, open and honest progression opportunities. As we grow we want you to grow with us!

• Fun and friendly company culture.  Exposure to all areas of the business, and ability to see the impact of your work on the wider company.

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious business.

• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.

• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.

• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.

• Competitive remuneration package.

• Company shares

• Company pension scheme

• Hybrid working environment

• Home office furniture allowance

• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget

• Private Medical Insurance

• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)

• Cycle to work scheme

• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps

• Enhanced parental pay & leave

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.

This is a hybrid role. Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Working Policy:

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

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