Senior Mobile Software Engineer
Elvie, United Kingdom
Job Description
The position: Senior Mobile Software Engineer - Flutter
Life at Elvie; Meaningful work, Exceptional People
We're Elvie. We create smart products, new solutions, and a fair few taboo-busting conversations while we’re at it. Founded by Tania Boler in 2013, we develop extraordinary innovations designed to improve women’s lives. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
At Elvie, you’ll be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
Find out more about life at Elvie here.
We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
- We make an impact: We’re mission-driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems.
- We’re fearless innovators: We are passionate, curious, and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation.
- We’re in it together: we fail and learn fast always as one team and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
Did you know?
In some regions our amazing products are considered to be medical devices. This means we maintain our Medical Device quality management system in compliance with ISO 13485:2016, to support the development of our groundbreaking products
About the role:
As a Senior Mobile Software Engineer you will be the first mobile developer joining an agile Software Engineering team and will be supporting the delivery of mobile applications using Flutter. You will be working closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Delivery Managers and Designers .
- First member in the team which is a great opportunity to shape the mobile dev team
Location: Hybrid working; a mix of working from our Bristol / London office amp; working remotely
Employment type: Permanent (please note, you must have the right to work in the UK)
What you’ll be doing at Elvie:
- Develop and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Flutter code.
- Port our existing App (iOS - Swift / Android - Kotlin) into Flutter.
- Build mobile apps for bluetooth connected devices.
- Stay up-to-date with Flutter and mobile app development best practices.
- Ensure code is sensibly tested.
- Suggest and manage performance metrics for our applications.
- Suggest tool chain that ultimately will speed up product delivery.
- Interact with product management and design team to translate requirements into our mobile apps.
- Work closely with delivery management team to provide visibility
- Assist in the development and execution of the QA process.
- Write clear and detailed technical documentation.
- Mentor more junior team members.
- Educate the business on mobile app development.
Requirements
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience as a mobile app developer (native and/or cross platform) with a strong portfolio of Flutter applications.
- Confident in native (Swift / Kotlin)
- In-depth understanding of the Flutter framework (state management)
- Good understanding BLE protocol stack would be desirable
- Experienced in using test framework for mobile app
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Clear communication and able to adapt to your audience.
- Working cross team
- Work independently
Benefits
The benefits you’ll get:
We're on an exceptional journey. And we can offer you a genuinely purpose-led career with a culture built on trust, autonomy, and flexibility. In addition, we'll give you:
- 9 Day Fortnight - for our full time employees we work 9 days every Fortnight with every other Friday as a non-working day for you to spend as you wish!
- Lots of flexibility: whether it’s working from home, doing the school run, or life admin, we understand that flexibility is essential, and we trust you to do the right thing for you and us
- Share options: we want everyone to have a stake in our success
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 8 extra life leave days; getting married, moving house, menopause or just things that you can’t put a label on that