Job Description

Why BT?We\'ve always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world\'s first telecommunications company. At our heart we\'re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.Today in this fast changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulation and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we\'ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that\'s you and what you\'re looking for, we\'d love you to be part of our future.Why this job mattersSoftware Engineering Specialist will provide expert level hands on Flutter design and development 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 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.
Your responsibility will be to 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. You will maximize 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

• Leading the software engineers in your agile squad and working with wider stakeholders in delivering FE journeys to BT and EE\'s customers
• Driving the technical standards, culture and best practice for the engineers in the squad and the wider business
• Working with the wider engineering community within and outside of BT to contribute to our front-end frameworks and tooling
• Hands on development in Dart (Flutter)
• Code reviews for the squads output
• Day to day line management, Recruitment, mentoring and goal setting for the front-end squad engineers, helping build both their careers and BT\'s front-end capability
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and conform to our architectural principles
• Working with the Product Owners, Architecture and test from across the group on solution architecture for your squads deliveries
• Maintain and grow relationships with strategic external partners and open source projects to influence their roadmaps and continue taking best advantage of their evolving capabilities
• Defining the monitoring strategy and inlife support for your team\'s journeys including being part of an oncall rota
• Lead by example, living the company values: Personal, Simple & Brilliant
• Representing BT within the wider tech community helping communicate your own and the departments achievement

Skills Required

• Write code from an approved requirement and design in accordance with the expected delivery timeframe and associated quality standards.
• Write unit tests and other automated tests and peer review software written by team members
• Contribute to tribe improvement initiatives and to tribe ceremonies (stand-up, sprint planning, demo, retrospective)
• Drive forward items from the tribe improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to technical direction and strategy of the tribe and to technical responses of impact assessments for business propositions.
• Investigation and resolution of production incidents and deliver tooling improvements for the delivery pipeline
• Technical design of solutions to business requirements
• Engage / influence the roadmap of our vendors\' products
• 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 Bitbucket
• 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 and experience with RESTful Services and OpenAPI advantageous.
• Have a good level of knowledge / experience of Agile software development, and supporting best practices: TDD, Pair Programming, unit testing frameworks and supporting technologies.
• Working alongside the other technical members of your squad to ensure solutions are fit for purpose, performant, secure, accessible and conform to our architectural principles
• Collaborate Engineering Manager and Chapter leads in defining front end technical standards and approaches

Experience you would be expected to have

• Minimum of 6 or more years with at least minimum of three years in Flutter (We are currently transitioning to Flutter as our strategic technology for App development, but relevant experience in Native iOS or Android development and willingness to learn Flutter would be acceptable).
• Ability to successfully collaborate as part of an Agile development team.
• Good communication skills - written and verbal
• Lead and mentor a team of Flutter developers, promoting a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
• Manage the entire application lifecycle from concept, design, test, release, and support.
• Working with the Product Owner, Engineers, Designers and other
• 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
• Experience in Dart, CI/CD, JSON Manipulation, API integrations
• Unit, Widget and Integration testing
• Knowledge of FE architecture and patterns

Our leadership standardsLooking 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.

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