Senior Flutter Software Engineer

Job Req ID: 38972

Posting Date: 13 Sep 2024

Function: Software Engineering

Unit: Digital

Location:

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

This role can be based in either Birmingham or Leeds on a hybrid basis (3 together / 2 wherever)

Why this job matters

BT is the largest telco in the industry. With over 90k employees in the UK and 34 million customers, we generate over £10bn in revenue. This offers enormous opportunities for our people and to be No. 1 in the market. Our Consumer Unit exists as three household brands - BT, EE & Plusnet from which collectively we generate more revenue than any other part of BT. Our brilliant brands are all beautiful individually. Each has unique attributes that cater to very different segments of the market. This makes our goal possible; to create a connection in every home in the UK by 2025.

Digital superheroes

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the Digital Engineering Team. We’re investing hundreds of millions of pounds into digital and transforming the way we work to create, not just the best digital experience in the telco market, but something that customers talk about as the best in the UK.

You will provide expert level, hands on iOS and Android Application design and development leadership across multiple systems in the Digital Engineering area with specific responsibility to ensure that solutions are designed to meet the business and customer needs, matching expectations for quality and reliability.

You will have the opportunity to participate in the delivery and implementation of both in-house and external solutions via Agile delivery to ensure solutions are compliant with the design and development standards and are fit-for-purpose.

Support the achievement of team service level targets by owning the completion of all assigned work requests, including testing, quality checking and delivering all assigned tasks within the agreed time-scales.

Be a key component in maximising the business potential of BT/EE apps and sites as the most efficient sales and service channel. This will be demonstrated through efficiency and quality of coding, and in harnessing new internet and app technologies.

What you’ll be doing

• Write, debug, test, troubleshoot and review code and tests, refining and rewriting as necessary, while communicating with engineering and project colleagues to deliver on time and to quality

• Ensure the engineering organization delivers high-quality work on time and on budget by contributing to and implementing the engineering strategy, and contrivuting to the technical roadmap and pursuing innovation

• Engage in and contribute to squad and tribe ceremonies, such as stand-ups, planning, reviews, and retrospectives, and drive forward items from improvement initiatives.

• Coach and mentor other members of the team to Foster an innovative engineering culture that emphasizes creativity and consistently delivers high-quality products with predictability and reliability.

• Contribute to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions and technical design of solutions to business requirements

• Implement and maintain high-quality tools, complex automation processes, and engineering and operational excellence initiatives to support continuous delivery, and increase developer productivity, using regular assessment of metrics.

• Investigate and resolve production incidents

• Contribute to internal and external conferences/meetups

Skills and Experiences

Technical Skills

• Have 3 or more years commercial knowledge / experience of at least two of Flutter, iOS or Android development.

• Experience of working within a true ‘DevOps’ environment, involving automated testing, continuous delivery practices and a high level of collaboration

• Experience of using Jenkins and tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Gitlab

• Experience of a range of relevant technical languages from Dart (Flutter), Objective C and Swift (iOS), to Android (Java) and Kotlin development.

• Software design and development experience integrated with web services. Experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.

• Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: BDD, TDD, Pair Programming etc.

Soft Skills

• Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team.

• Good communication skills - written and verbal

• Ability to contribute to ongoing process improvement activities in the team and look for ways to make a difference.

• Communication of complicated technical requirements to the business leaders and project teams in non-technical language.

• Communication of technical requirements within project teams.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to engineer solutions to business requirements.

• Good interpersonal and teamworking skills.

• Ability to manage their own time and assist others to meet sprint commitments in terms of functionality delivered.

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• 10% on target bonus

• Life Assurance

• Pension scheme

• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.

• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans

• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages

• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids

• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.