Software Engineer 3 - Mobile

Introduction

The Economist is looking for an experienced Mobile Engineer to join our flagship mobile app engineering team. 

 

We are investing in our mobile app experience as an essential window into our outstanding content, audio and video. We’re growing our engineering team to help our users find, watch and read more of our content, to keep coming back and to increase customer loyalty. 

 

You’ll work in an agile environment, releasing quickly and often to the app stores to ensure quick feedback loops around the success or not of our features and experiments. 

 

What we’re offering you

• Remote working encouraged - we’ll supply you with the kit you need
• Flexible working hours
• Bonus scheme
• Private health care
• Generous pension plan
• Annual wellbeing days
• Conferences and learning resources
• Hackathons and personal development time
• Full Economist.com subscription

What will you experienceAt The Economist we believe having the right work-life balance is super important; striking balance between your personal and professional life is critical to wellbeing and happiness. We offer flexible working and have recently shifted to a 'remote first' working policy with a minimum expectation of coming to the office two days a month, however you can come in more often if you wish to.The Engineering team’s office is in central Birmingham, just a five minute walk from New Street Station and minutes from Snow Hill Station and we also have a central office in London.

This is the time to be joining a profitable, responsible business with a brand and culture that you can be proud of and with every opportunity to deliver success for the Group and yourself. 

 

Accountabilities

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager within a squad/team 
• Working with other engineers, designers and product owners in cross-functional teams
• Working alone or in groups
• Working in native iOS/Android and React Native
• Bring features from specification to production
• Working to produce high-quality, testable and observable solutions

Experience, skills and professional attributes

• Commercial experience in mobile development, you have worked in either Android, iOS or React Native
• A love of mobile user interface best practices and an understanding of the impact it has on customers interactions with products
• Experience writing automated tests and using observability tooling to measure reliability and performance
• You’ll value well-thought-out and straightforward solutions to problems
• A bias for action - you'll have been the person driving culture and positive change within your team in your previous role
• Good technical project management skills, taking a set of requirements, breaking the work down, and communicating requirements is second nature

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