About you
An experienced Senior Android Developer, you have a proven track record in creating native mobile applications that users love from scratch. You'll need a deep understanding of building applications that are truly exceptional. With your quality-minded approach and expertise in architecting high-scale apps, you can build applications, products and services that push the limits of what's possible.

About the role
Following the successful launch of our iOS app, we’re looking for our first-ever Senior Android Developer to join our newly formed app team and create an Android experience from scratch.

You’ll build & maintain a 5-star mobile app experience for our most loyal users to get the highest possible engagement from them. Ensuring that the app is world-class in terms of user experience, developer experience, performance & security.

Lead initiatives ensuring the app exceeds Android standards & Material Design guidelines.

About us www.carandclassic.com
Car & Classic is one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world. We’re lucky to have thousands of user-generated listings submitted monthly with content gems from James Bond’s Aston DB5 to Elvis Presley’s Cadillac. The site is old, launched in 2005 but under new, VC-backed ownership since 2018 and on an exciting triple-digit growth journey to bring classic vehicle transactions online.

Our culture is incredibly important to us. We’re lucky enough to have built the team from scratch with a focus on enjoying the day-to-day, diversity, inclusion and high performance. Despite being an entirely distributed business we build strong connections as colleagues and have created a fun and high-performing culture.

We’re looking for a Senior Android Developer who has good, relevant experience and wants to make their mark in a rapid-growth business where they can make a real difference whilst enjoying the environment and culture.

Role and responsibilities:

• App Development: Lead the development and delivery of an Android application from scratch, ensuring it meets the specified timelines and quality standards.
• Architecture: Architect and maintain a scalable and efficient codebase for the Android app, ensuring flexibility for future updates and enhancements.
• App Quality: Strive for excellence in user satisfaction by aiming for a 4.5+ rating on Google Play Store, based on feedback from hundreds of reviewers.
• App Engagement: Implement iterations to drive a 50% higher conversion rate on the mobile app compared to the website, contributing to increased user engagement and business success.
• App Metrics: Work towards achieving and maintaining key performance indicators, including higher Conversion Rate (CR%), and Monthly Active Users (MAU), while ensuring a consistently high review score on the Google Play Store.
• Technical Project Management: Continuously self-lead projects towards success regardless by helping and mentoring the rest of the team to maintain focus on planned work.

The skills, attributes and experience you must have:

• 🌟 Spearheaded ground-up app development with well-thought architecture and long-term maintainability in mind, to create robust Android applications.
• 🚀 Kotlin Maestro: Crafts sophisticated code, advancing the frontiers of Android development.
• 📍Location and Interaction Specialist: Masterful with Location APIs for pinpointing GPS accuracy, designing engaging notifications, and leveraging the latest Android SDKs for live features.
• 📈 Proven track record of engineering high-scale 5-star Android apps, with top Play Store ratings powered by REST APIs.
• 👁️‍🗨️ Material Design Expert: Deeply versed in Google’s Material Design Guidelines to deliver seamless and intuitive user experiences.
• 🌐 Project Ownership Advocate: Demonstrates commitment to project ownership, overcoming challenges to ensure successful project delivery.
• 💫 Perfectionist in Performance & Aesthetics: Passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences with pixel-perfect designs, optimised performance, and smooth animations.
• ✅ Testing Champion: Integrates automated testing to maintain high-quality standards.
• 🤝 Collaborative Team Player: Thrives in collaborative settings, effectively working with cross-functional teams to bring design concepts to life, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs.

What do you get (remuneration & benefits)?

• 💰 Competitive base salary
• 📈 Stock options
• 💻 All the equipment you need to get the job done
• 🌍 Flexible working - work where and when you want to get the job done
• 🤗 Access to free counselling, therapy and mental health support via Spill
• 📚 Professional development allowance
• 🏡 Life cover
• 🩺 Smart Health
• 👶 Generous parental leave
• 🏝 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• 🚀 Ability to make your mark on a fast-growing start-up

Our application process

Once you decide to apply you’ll be presented with a series of questions. The answers to the questions are the difference between your application being progressed or not. Please do give them your time and effort when answering.

Good luck with your application and thank you in advance for your interest in joining us at Car & Classic.

Car & Classic Limited is an equal-opportunity employer

Equality, diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our culture. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we hold ourselves responsible. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role.