GSC: Senior Engineer; Mobile - Android

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We are transforming our digital capabilities, driving innovation, delivering products in ever shortening cycles and helping to drive the continuous improvement of our processes, tooling and engineering practices. The Mobile team governs mobile engineering lifecycle activities providing standards, alignment, management oversight and resource allocation in order to fulfil roadmaps, guard highest levels of quality and operate on top of the best-in‑class platform.

• Oversee the entire development lifecycle of Android app projects, including resource management as well as design and lead the development of applications, especially during critical phases, ensure high quality, performance, responsiveness, and security of Android applications.
• Identify bottlenecks in processes and development tasks, review code, and fix bugs as well as maintain code quality, implement automation, organize codebases, and apply upgrades when available.
• Manage both frontend and backend aspects of Android applications and collaborate proactively within the project team, leveraging experience to guide the development lifecycle, participate hands‑on in planning, estimating, architecting, coding, and development, conduct regular refactoring and continuous improvement of codebases.
• Prioritize software quality throughout the entire development process.
• Communicate technical decisions and information effectively across the global team as well as take responsibility for releases and contribute to ongoing support of live apps.
• Consider how software fits into the broader picture and collaborate effectively with others.
• Apply Continuous Delivery practices to enhance product quality and delivery and utilize a range of Agile practices, understanding their purposes and benefits.
• Embrace a Dev Ops culture, engaging beyond programming in deployment and operations, build and lead highly productive teams of skilled engineers and ensure fair outcomes for customers and maintain orderly, transparent financial market operations.

• Proven experience as a senior individual contributor or technical lead in a large‑scale mobile engineering organization with an expert‑level knowledge of Android development and the Android ecosystem.
• Proficiency in Java and Kotlin programming languages with strong experience with Android Studio, Android SDK, and related development tools as well as deep understanding of Android architecture components and Jetpack libraries and expertise in developing and maintaining large‑scale Android applications.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, JSON parsing, and networking in Android as well as experience with dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Dagger, Hilt).
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, Material Design, and custom view development as well as familiarity with reactive programming (e.g., RxJava, Kotlin Coroutines).
• Experience with local data storage solutions (e.g., Room, SQLite) as well as proficiency in unit testing and UI automation testing for Android.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI).
• Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git, understanding of Android security best practices and implementation, experience with performance optimization and memory management in Android and knowledge of Android app publishing process and Google Play Store guidelines.
• Technical skills:
  Mastery of Android SDK, different Android versions, and handling various screen sizes.
• Proficiency in developing custom views and animations:
  Experience with background processing, multi‑threading, and asynchronous programming in Android;
  Knowledge of Android's location and mapping capabilities;
  Familiarity with integrating third‑party libraries and APIs;
  Experience with push notifications and Firebase Cloud…