Overview

Position Title: Flutter App Engineer

Company: BT

Location: Thames Ditton, UK

Job Description:

To provide expert level, hands on iOS and Android Application design and development leadership across multiple systems in the Digital Engineering area with specific responsibility to ensure that solutions are designed to meet the business and customer needs, matching expectations for quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

  • Write code from an approved requirement and design in accordance with the expected delivery timeframe and associated quality standards
  • Write unit tests and other automated tests
  • Peer review software written by team members
  • Contribute to tribe improvement initiatives
  • Contribute to tribe ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, demo, retrospective)
  • Drive forward items from the tribe improvement initiatives
  • Contribute to technical direction and strategy of the tribe
  • Coach and mentor junior members of the team
  • Contribute to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions
  • Investigation and resolution of production incidents
  • Deliver tooling improvements for the delivery pipeline
  • Technical design of solutions to business requirements
  • Engage / influence the roadmap of our vendors’ products
  • Contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups
  • Experience of working within a true ‘DevOps’ environment, involving automated testing, continuous delivery practices and a high level of collaboration
  • Experience of using Jenkins and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket
  • Experience of a range of relevant technical languages from Dart (Flutter), Objective C and Swift (iOS), to Android (Java) and Kotlin development.
  • Software design and development experience integrated with web services. Experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.
  • Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming etc.
  • Have a good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and supporting technologies.

Requirements:

  • Have 3 or more years commercial knowledge / experience of at least one of Flutter, iOS or Android development, and ideally some knowledge of Flutter. We are currently transitioning to Flutter as our strategic technology for App development, but relevant experience in Native iOS or Android development and willingness to learn Flutter would be acceptable.
  • Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team.
  • Good communication skills – written and verbal
  • Ability to contribute to ongoing process improvement activities in the team and look for ways to make a difference.
  • Communication of complicated technical requirements to the business leaders and project teams in non-technical language.
  • Communication of technical requirements within project teams.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills to engineer solutions to business requirements.
  • Good interpersonal and teamworking skills.
  • Ability to manage their own time and assist others to meet sprint commitments in terms of functionality delivered

About BT

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