WEB / MOBILE APP TECH LEAD

Objective of role:

We are currently looking for a Senior Developer to join our BankWorld Digital Software Development team as a Web/Mobile App Development Technical Lead. You will be responsible for the technical leadership of a team providing high quality software for our Internet & Mobile applications, implementing new business requirements and maintaining existing functionality on the Internet & Mobile components of CR2’s retail banking product - BankWorld.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new complex features as a senior member of a feature-driven team.
• Ensuring team delivers high quality output by proactively participating in Design and Code Reviews of team members
• Lead by example by following sound software design, process and quality practices and ensure team adheres to CR2 Software Development Processes
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to a team of developers
• Maintain strong communication channels with other development teams, product architects and management
• Proactively participate in the estimation, planning and delivery to agreed schedules of software projects within the team
• Assist with the maintaining and support of new and existing features by liaising with the QA and support teams to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Occasionally travel to our Ireland Development office to laisse with other peers and Architects
• Occasionally provide out of hours support for the product

Essential skills are:

• Proven expertise in developing Cordova plugins for interfacing with native SDKs and components.

Native development experience for Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C/Swift) (2+ years).

• 6+ years “hands-on” software development experience
• 3+ years of experience building web and mobile applications using Angular 2+, Ionic 3+ and Typescript. Knowledge of AngularJS(1.x) and NodeJS a bonus
• Must have a deep understanding of Javascript / Typescript and common tools and libraries. e.g. Promises, RxJS, npm build scripts
• Understanding of app ecosystems and related technologies such as REST API's, SDK's, Firebase integration, JSON, XML
• High level of attention to detail and strong aptitude for learning new technologies
• Ability to work across multiple product areas and remain quality and customer-focused
• Excellent communication skills, active listening and the ability to present complex ideas in concise written and verbal descriptions using the English-language

Desirable skills:

• Experience in implementing native libraries in application by using the Android NDK
• Proven Technical Leadership experience
• Experience with Node.js, task runners such as Gulp or Grunt, unit testing frameworks such as Jasmine
• Experience with Javascript build systems including Ionic-app-scripts, webpack, grunt, npm build scripts
• Knowledge and/or experience with distributed architectures
• Experience of software testing and methodologies
• Proven relevant experience in the Banking Financial Services sector

Personal attributes of the candidate:

• Team leadership ability, cooperative and flexible.
• Self-starter and ability to work within a distributed team
• Enthusiastic, proactive, and can-do attitude, keen to be involved at all levels of the product
• Articulate communicator, ability to present ideas clearly and precisely, both written and verbally, with concise attention to detail to peers, colleagues and management alike.
• Good listener, the ability to listen effectively and to consider input from peers, colleagues and management alike.
• Self-reliant, the ability to work without close supervision and address problems in a collaborative environment.
• Good problem solving abilities with the ability to identify and contribute to solutions for the company in a collaborative environment.
• Strong customer orientation.

Education/Qualifications:

• Honours Degree or Diploma in Computer Science