Senior Flutter Engineer - AJ Bell : Job Details

We are searching for an experienced Senior Flutter Engineer to work in a product centric role to help us on our mission of striving to make investing easier for all. We like winning awards, and we want you to help delight our users by creating award winning apps. You will put users at the forefront of the way you think and be passionate about great user experience and user interface design. You will be able to deliver tested, resilient, and performant code against a fast-paced environment. Your role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission by developing, shaping, and iterating our customer facing Flutter applications.

You will be working on our Dodl product that will help shape the way that people invest to secure their future financial wellbeing.

What does the job involve?

• Lead and own a fast growing and project to push our mobile platform forward to the next level.
• Work with product and design teams to translate designs and wireframes into high quality code and beautiful products.
• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code.
• Bring high standards and technical knowledge to the forefront of our technical roadmap.
• Identify and resolve bugs, performance and security issues.
• Understand and improve our CI/CD pipelines from development through to release.
• Ensure and strive for the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
• Work collaboratively alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of infrastructure.
• Ensure that all duties are carried out with the aim of protecting customers and improving customer experience.

Competence, Knowledge and Skills

• Strong commercial experience in Flutter mobile development.
• Experience in developing consumer facing, high-performance Flutter applications using the latest trends and technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Swift and Kotlin.
• Understanding of architecture principles, design patterns & SOLID principles.
• Strong knowledge with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services.
• Knowledge of the Android & iOS ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
• Experience with stakeholder management and working towards product driven, solutions and features.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

About Us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,450 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

Our perks and benefits

• Starting salary between £65,000 - £80,000 (dependent on experience)
• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service plus a holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan - provided by SimplyHealth
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Professional qualification support
• Talent development programmes
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

Hybrid working

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.