Mobile Developer

About the job

You’ll be joining our mobile development team to help us creating and sharing in the responsibility for the next evolution of the Zombies, Run! app. This will mean collaborating with our engineering teams on: – Improving the user experience and overall quality of our existing apps with an eye for simplicity, accessibility, and maintainability. – Designing, developing and delivering exciting new features. – Expanding internationalisation and localisation support of our apps, bringing them to even wider audiences.

Our Android app has been built entirely using Kotlin as the language, our code is in Github and we use bitrise.io for our CI/CD pipelines.

We expect all team members to:

• Be fluent in English, have strong interpersonal communication skills, and be available on Slack during core work hours (9am-12pm UK time)
• Be able to get up and running with unfamiliar technologies
• Be willing to work on both Android and iOS and participate in code review to help elevate everyone’s programming skills
• Be detail oriented in both design and implementation of product features.

Additional Responsibilities

• Coordinating across Android and iOS to maintain feature and functional parity across platforms.
• Participating in feature design and engineering planning discussions.
• Contributing to the improvement of internal workflows and processes.

About You

You’ll be passionate about software engineering, building sustainable applications, and continually improving our practices and technology. Any exposure to and knowledge of iOS development would be an added bonus and we also have an iOS application built using Swift and SwiftUI.

Please apply for this job if you:

• Have experience writing native, production ready Kotlin code with published apps currently in store.
• Have experience with ReactiveX, observable streams, coroutines or similar.
• Have experience in mobile software internationalisation and localisation.
• Are familiar with any two of our industry standard tools:
  • Android Studio and Kotlin
  • git, and either GitHub or GitLab
  • JIRA, or similar “ticket-based” workload management
  • Bitrise, or similar continuous integration
  • Have a passion and capacity for learning

We are especially keen to hear from applicants who:

• Have some experience with iOS development and Xcode
• Have some experience with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
• Are experienced in UI/UX design and implementation
• Have experience with automated testing
• Are from communities historically underrepresented in tech
• Care about building and maintaining equality and inclusion in our workplace and product