Description
At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme and profit related quarterly bonus, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – so if you’re a great person and an amazing developer we’d love to hear from you.
We are looking for an experienced Mobile Developer who has a solid background within mobile app/game development. The role will to help bring our Avakin product to additional app stores, and help with the advancement and maintenance of the codebase, especially around the parts that interact with the mobile ecosystems. This position, for the right person, has the scope to grow into building and leading a team.
Responsibilities
- Support a team of programmers;
- Grow a Mobile Development team;
- Keep up to date with new developments (eg. features and technologies) within the mobile platform realm (Android / iOS);
- Ensuring OS features / SDKs are integrated in the correct way and supports all mainstream target mobile platform operating system versions / variants;
- Prepare the app for upcoming Android / iOS updates and AppStore guideline changes (eg. Android R);
- Communicate with external companies (including AppStore Support teams and SDK Providers) to work through any potential issues;
- Communicate with various teams within Lockwood to help understand and use the various SDKs correctly (eg. FAQ systems, Advert Systems, etc);
- Collaborate with our QA teams to identify and fix bugs in a timely manner;
- Promote and adhere to best-practice with regards to code quality and performance;
- Collaborate with other Leads to help plan and schedule tasks and app releases;
- Collaborate with the Client Code Team to provide a good quality API to any plugins;
- Identify Risks and provide relevant solutions.
Requirements
- 4+ years programming experience developing mobile applications or similar product;
- Experience of writing code in either Java or Obj-C within a mobile domain;
- Experience leading a team or mentoring other mobile developers
Beneficial: Unity3D, C#, Gradle, Cocoapods, Kotlin, Swift, Experience working on a live product.