Lead Mobile Developer

Company description:

We keep millions of people moving every day and continue to be Australia's leading transport fuel supplier and convenience retailer. Our business is dynamic and often technical, and we rely on talented people who seek to find solutions. Whatever your journey, we're the fuel that gets you there. Ampol, Australia's own.

Job description:

• Join a scaling, high impact, product-focused department with multiple Agile squads
• Evolving Ampol's mobile applications across multiple business lines
• Hybrid working flexibility with Sydney (Alexandria), Brisbane and Melbourne offices

About Ampol   

Powering better journeys, today and tomorrow.

Our company has always been about more than fuel. Fuel may be the foundation of our business, but our motivation and purpose comes from the people, businesses, industries and communities we engage with. `

From our origins until today, we've always been inspired by the role we can play in people's lives - to keep them moving, to make journeys happen.

In May 2021, Ampol released its future energy and decarbonisation strategies, which sets out our plans to transition our business to future fuels and energy solutions, in line with customer demand and technology availability, and our ambition to achieve net zero emissions across our operations

We've been powering journeys for over 100 years and we'll be here powering journeys for 100 more.

About Digital @Ampol:

The Digital team designs, builds and operates most of Ampol's digital applications by following agile and engineering best practices. We have multiple agile squads comprising of product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, mobile, frontend, backend and quality engineers. The major applications we manage are Ampol app-Ampol's flagship mobile app and centre of our digital experience, energy-an exciting launch in Mar 2023 that officially made us an electricity retailer, ampcharge - another exciting launch where Ampol service stations now provide charging bays for electric vehicles, myAmpol-handling millions of dollars of fuel orders, cards-a fresh new application for Ampol cards management and a few other applications that makes customer's life easier.

The role:

As a business that never stops transforming, our people are challenged with making it happen. Whether it's dreaming up big ideas, questioning the norm, or solving complex problems, we are tasked with making an impact on the business that will take us into the future.

As a Lead Mobile Developer within Ampol, you will contribute to our Digital strategy by designing, building, and nurturing mobile app features that are a bedrock for our digital customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure we provide delightful digital customer experiences
• Collaborate with product teams, UX designers and other engineers on developing new features
• Build and deliver mobile app features by writing clean, scalable and reliable code
• Perform code reviews to maintain code quality, promote technical excellence and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team.
• Provide production support including triage and resolution of incidents
• Participate in estimation and feature planning activities
• Work closely with solution architects, senior leads and engineering manager to contribute to design discussions and ensure adherence to design patterns, architecture principles and engineering best practices
• Partner with delivery lead and business analysts to meet team milestones and deadlines
• Take initiative within a cross functional agile team, proactively and continuously looking for opportunities to collaborate and accelerate team members and contribute to resolving the team's technical challenges

About you:

• Proven experience working with iOS (swift) or Android (Kotlin) with a history of shipping successful consumer facing mobile applications
• Proficiency in relevant (iOS or Android) SDKs, tools, and libraries
• Strong problem solving skills and ability to analyze and optimize code for performance and maintainability
• Ability to communicate effectively , both verbally and in writing
• Experience in requirements gathering, solution design and documentation to an appropriate level
• A passion to stay updated on latest updates and trends in mobile platforms
• A team player and a self starter who will contribute to the continuous improvement of the team's skills and practices
• Advanced knowledge of best practices; including but not limited to: Mobile architecture, iOS/Android design guidelines, software development best practices, secure coding practices, and CI/CD methodologies
• Have tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

What we use :

We don't expect candidates to have worked in all these technologies. This is an opportunity to learn technologies you are not familiar with already.

• iOS
  • Pure SwiftUI 3+ (iOS 15 minimum target) application
  • Combine + Swift Modern Concurrency (async await)
  • SwiftUI application lifecycle
  • Swift Package Manager
  • In house design system and component library
  • Functional design and immutable state
• Android
  • Jetpack Compose for all new functionality
  • Legacy code in XML
  • In house design system and component library
  • Dagger 2, Koin
  • Retrofit
  • Flows + Coroutines

Our benefits:

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid)
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
• Check out our benefits and policies on the Work180 website

We're an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.