We're recruiting a mid-level product centric Mobile Developer to help us on our mission of striving to make investing easier for all. You will put users at the forefront of the way you think and be passionate about great user experience and user interface design. You will be able to deliver tested, resilient and performant code against a fast-paced environment. Your role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission by developing, shaping and iterating our customer facing mobile applications.

You will be working on a product that will help shape the way that people invest in order to secure their future financial wellbeing. Working in a small highly focused mobile application development team you will be responsible for delivering against key company goals not just a set of features. You will have the opportunity to impact and shape the way we build products.

Working in a small agile team will allow you to be both nimble whilst at the same time delivering value to the business. Our focus is on individuals and delivery rather than ceremonies and complex process.

What does the job involve?

• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code and beautiful products.
• Ensure and strive for the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Work collaboratively alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of infrastructure.

Competence, Knowledge and Skills

• Experience in developing consumer facing, high-performance applications
• Commercial experience to build cross-platform mobile apps for Android & iOS (native or hybrid SDKs such as Flutter, React Native, etc.)
• Understanding of design patterns & SOLID principles
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Understanding of CI/CD
• Good knowledge of Web APIs

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK, with over 398,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £75.6 billion. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with an office in central London, we now have 900 employees and have been named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for three consecutive years.

Additional Information:

There are opportunities for growth and professional development for members wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package.

Our EQ4 office design is centred on delivering agile and collaborative working spaces that enable us to deliver a first class service to our customers, but remote working continues to be a large part of our work life and will continue to be post-covid. 

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of team work, we have a great sense of pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees.

Benefits:

• Regular remote working
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Contributory pension
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Pay-day drinks on our 7th floor roof terrace
• 24 days holiday increasing to 30 with length of service
• Holiday buy scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Death in service cover
• Confidential 24/7 365 employee assistance helpline
• Free onsite gym and trainer led classes (yoga, Pilates, boxercise, circuits)
• Paid volunteering days
• Bike loan scheme
• Season ticket loan portal
• Plus, much more

• This role provides formal cover for Mission and Business Critical systems and processes, and as such you may be required to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays to provide out of hours support for such systems and processes, as part of a rota. Employees who are scheduled to be on-call will receive a weekly standby allowance and will be paid for overtime worked during these periods.  

This role is available under our hybrid working scheme. Ideally we're looking for people who are within commuting distance of one of our offices however for certain roles we can consider UK-based candidates who are further away - ask the recruitment team for more information. Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this time.