As well as being part of Kraken Field you’ll be part of a large team of mobile developers across Octopus with projects spanning Electric Vehicles, Energy usage flexibility, Energy accounts, Smart home devices, Acquisitions and Engineer solutions. All our apps are built with declarative UI frameworks (Jetpack Compose & SwiftUI), all our APIs are built in GraphQL, and we use a modern selection of libraries and software development techniques.We have projects in pure Android/Kotlin, others in pure iOS/Swift and we also use Kotlin Multiplatform in larger projects to share code between native codebases.
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About you & what you’ll do
You’ll be someone who thrives on uncertainty and loves to make an impact.
You’ll be passionate about what you do and that shows through your enthusiasm and communication.
Your values will align with that of the company’s, you’ll care about sustainability and creating a better future for our planet.
You’ll enjoy contributing across the whole development process including design, product management and stay on top of upcoming technologies that could benefit the business.
The home retrofitting industry and Kraken Field as a product are rapidly expanding, and are a hugely important part of decarbonising the planet - you’ll have big responsibility from day one and really help influence how we scale the technology to make that happen.
You’ll…
Be able to discuss vision and features within a team and propose creative solutions
Be proficient with Kotlin and have experimented with other programming languages
Have a good knowledge of Jetpack Compose having used it in a professional environment
Be passionate about app architecture and can talk about the benefits and drawbacks of various patterns (MVC, MVVM, Redux)
Be passionate about great app design and user experience
Have used GraphQL or are interested in learning
Have knowledge of reactive libraries, offline storage, API integration, and testing
Be familiar with source control best practices and continuous integration
Be excited to explore cross platform code sharing solutions (whilst keeping the UI 100% native)
Non requirements but a bonus if you do have experience in any of these areas!
Professional use of Kotlin Multiplatform
Exposure to Compose Multiplatform
Professional iOS development experience