Android Front End Developer

The Dyson software team are responsible for all aspects of the product development lifecycle. Our teams support Research & NPI with bringing their new ideas to like as well as the delivery of all the Embedded software inside the products, the Dyson Link Mobile Apps (iOS, Android & WeChat) as well as the Cloud systems which support our analytics, machine learning and data science teams.

Dyson is growing into new product categories and we are looking to build out a new team to support our ambitions. This team will look at building products based using the Android platform. Over time the team will grow in the UK, and Singapore. We all come from a variety of educational backgrounds and experience levels; not all of us are computer science graduates. We believe that teams composed of people from diverse backgrounds are more successful and innovative.

Our teams have the autonomy to manage their own work using Scrum or Kanban frameworks, each honing their ways of working through regular retrospectives and knowledge sharing. We all share a commitment to creating high-quality code, and engineers choose to follow practices such as pair programming, mobbing, and test-driven development. We also regularly share our knowledge and interests peer-to-peer through ‘community meetings’, which have led to the adoption of new technologies and improved cross-team collaboration.

We often need to interact with people from different parts of the business, such as mobile app development, cloud development as well as product management. We plan in 5-sprint ‘increments’, based on the best bits of the Scaled Agile Framework. This gives us more visibility of upcoming work while remaining responsive and allows us to collaborate effectively with other teams within our 15,000-person organisation. Our programs also work with some exciting external partners in USA & Asia.

Mutual trust and respect between team members is important to build a supportive environment where people can do their best work.

We have a great opportunity for an Android UI Developer within the Wearables Software Team based in UK.

Key responsibilities:

• You will become the domain expert for UI, Amination & Creative development for Android based product user interfaces.

• Working with ecosystem partners such as App developers, hardware manufactures, Algorithm providers along with major App & Internet Service companies to craft revolutionary new Dyson products.

• Collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines, including test engineers, product owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI designers and software engineers from both internal & external teams.

• Clarification and refinement of user stories and non-functional requirements with the wider Team

• An experienced Android developer focused on UI with Experience in Modern Android Development

• Hands on experience with Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Libraries, Compose, Canvas, Lottie and other UI tools.

• Experienced in creative coding, generative art, animation, and UI development techniques

• Comfortable working on concepts alone as well as a part of a larger development team

• It’s essential you’re a self-starter and able to drive early concepts through to production when needed

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confident presenting your work and representing the team at all levels.

• You’ll be able to build consensus with stakeholders to ensure we deliver what our customers and the wider business needs.

Behaviours

• Clear focus and drive for quality & perfection – you’ll be able to find and maintain focus and priority in a rapidly evolving environment.

• Curious, inventive and creative - be prepared to solve tough problems and look beyond convention.

• Effective communicator - concise and timely communication, managing facts and emotion

• Global collaborator - open minded to ideas from other perspectives

• Resilient - prepared to be challenged and thrive in change

We would love it if you also had

• A passion for Android, Apps, Data, IoT & software which makes people’s lives better

• Knowledge of Embedded Linux and Realtime operating systems

• Ability to use Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite

• An appreciation of using Agile techniques in large teams (Less, SAFe etc.)

• 27 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays

• Pension scheme

• Performance related bonus

• Private medical insurance

• Life assurance

• Free on-site parking

• Subsidised café and restaurants

• Discounts on Dyson machines

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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.