Senior Android Developer

About Grand Parade

Grand Parade is a major Technology Hub and part of William Hill, a trusted brand with global recognition in the sports betting and gaming market. Our mission is to provide the entire world with the most exciting betting and gambling experience by creating solutions which matter with technology that rocks!

Position

Working with us you’ll be at heart of the technological revolution of one the world’s most trusted betting and gaming companies. We deal with projects ranging from widgets, desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites just to name a few. We process 500 online Sportsbook bets per second each Saturday, that’s the same as orders processed by Amazon UK, on its busiest day of the year. We deal with more than 20 million users and 160 terabytes of data daily. Impressed? You can be sure there are many more challenges waiting for you.

Your role in the team

• Collaborating with experienced Product Owners and Designers building world class solutions for betting and/or gaming to implement user-facing features in company’s products.
• Supporting diverse clients with various devices, both phones and tablets.
• Delivering hybrid (web + native) applications.
• Building efficient and reusable components.
• Managing multiple releases, maintaining CI/CD process.
• Helping develop architectural solutions for problems.
• Introducing innovative features into a mobile portfolio.
• Developing prototypes.

Your qualification

• Passion for people and technology.
• Proven experience as a Android Developer
• Very good knowledge of and experience with Kotlin, Android Studio and Java
• Very good knowledge of Git, XML, JSON and Web Services
• Experience with building complex Android applications with different patterns (e.g. MVP, MVVM)
• Experience with advanced concepts such as custom UI controls, performance optimization, memory management and integration into server-side REST APIs
• Attention to details
• Good commucnication and English skills (written and spoken)

Will be a plus

Desirable skills

• Knowledge of tests automation and Continuous Delivery
• Knowledge of GraphQL
• Experience in web view and hybrid applications
• Knowledge of Scrum methodology

What we offer

• Development opportunities, including IT conferences, internal training, lunch and learn sessions and an individual development budget.
• Complex work and the chance to make an impact.
• Mac OS or Windows hardware to choose from.
• Some opportunities for International travel to our offices in London, Leeds, Stockholm, Malta and Gibraltar (our office is 5 minutes away from the beach).
• New modern, bright and comfortable office space, with a great working atmosphere, in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward thinking managers.
• Competitive base salary and benefits, with fully paid private healthcare (Enel-Med), filly paid Multisport pass, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday.
• Garden roof terrace, with incredible views of the city, and fresh fruit in the office.
• Well stocked kitchens with fruit tea, honey and lemon, foamy coffee machine, vending machine with healthy food and salad.
• Chill out room and gaming room with VR, PS4, FIFA, foosball table, billiards, table tennis, football league, board games, competitions with cool prizes.
• Meetups, quality questions events, hackathons, we love any chance to share knowledge and have fun.
• We don’t like our colleagues to go hungry or thirsty, so events are always well catered.
• Family fun days, charity events (ask us about our scooter racing), company parties and social activities.
• Flexible working practices
• Excellent city centre location with a tram stop right outside the office, and free parking spaces cars, motorcycles and bikes.
• Relocation costs support for rent and travel, and VISA support. Colleagues from all round the world including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Brazil, Romania, Ireland, Israel, India, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Libya.