Senior Software Engineer (Mobile)

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Summary

The UK’s fastest growing and largest independent energy supplier is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in mobile application development to join their expanding team.

First Utility is committed to helping customers reduce their energy bills through the use of innovative technology, by offering cheaper tariffs and campaigning for industry change. This opening comes at an exciting stage and offers a fantastic opportunity for you to be part of a team hungry to make a difference.

We are the ‘Growing Business Awards’ Growing Business of the Year 2014 and the only energy company to have been listed in the fast track 100 for four consecutive years

Role overview

This is a key role within the development team building advanced mobile software solutions of our online utilities business.

Projects will cut across a wide set of solution domains including on-line registrations, customer self-serve, single customer view, mediation, rating and billing.

You will be working within a highly agile team, who are tasked with producing cross platform mobile applications for the company’s external and internal customers. These applications are designed to engage the user to interact with the business easily and we are always working towards cutting edge customer experience.

Areas of specific responsibility

- To maintain a strong subject matter expertise, and develop your expertise further through professional development. We give you 12 research days a year to help you on your way, and we look forward to knowledge sharing sessions where you tell us all about what you have learnt.

- Maintain a strong knowledge of popular hybrid technologies (React Native, NativeScript, Appcelerator Titanium would be helpful) and apply these technologies delivering maintainable, production ready code which is highly performant and works well across iOS and Android devices.

- With a good understanding of the importance of standards across a large development team, we expect you to be actively involved in contributing to and making our standards even better.

- We really value the test-driven approach to developing code and strive to ensure that developers fall in love with testing the code they produce.

- Working as part of a team and communicating with other people across the organisation is really important, so you’ll have a mix of great technology skills combined with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

The desirable candidate will have

Essential

- Proven experience in delivering excellent mobile experiences

- Commercial experience in JavaScript or TypeScript hybrid mobile app development

- Good understanding of iOS and Android APIs / SDKs / frameworks

- Strong unit testing experience (Jasmine / Mocha ideal)

- Evidence of responsive mobile design approaches

- Proven experience in writing performant mobile app code

- Experience integrating with JSON / XML web services

- UI/UX development experience

- Knowledge of source control (e.g. Git / SVN)

Desirable

- Web app development experience (using React or other front-end MVC frameworks)

- Mobile app languages - Objective C / Swift / Java

- Node.js

- Experience working with ECMAScript / ES6 and related ES5 compilers i.e. Babel

- Grunt / Gulp

- Automated functional testing experience

- XCTest / UI Automator / Appium / Calabash experience

- Push notification provider experience (Urban Airship)

- Social API (Facebook / Twitter / Google) experience

- Adobe Photoshop for extracting and modifying assets as required

- An eye for design and/or UX would be very advantageous

The role would suit a solid experienced developer who is ready for a new challenge, and is willing to apply the correct technical solution for the required product, and all the implications of investigation, study and application this involves.

The Benefits

As well as a rewarding career, development opportunities and competitive salary, you’ll also enjoy 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), pension, option to purchase childcare vouchers, and become eligible for our staff energy tariff along with other great ad-hoc offers

We believe in putting energy into looking after our teams, so you’ll benefit from BUPA Private Healthcare, cycle to work scheme, a great working environment with relaxation areas to recharge your batteries and free soft drinks available all day. We also have "Fruity Friday" where fresh fruit is available every week for all employees.

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