Senior Engineer – Mobile

Job Description: Senior Engineer - Mobile Hybrid

About the Role

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients, and residents in mind, you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives. Right from the start, you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way. Working within the UKIT Digital team at Bupa, the Senior Engineer – Digital, Mobile will be an expert in their field with proven mastery experience in React Native. As a Senior React Native mobile developer, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting high-quality mobile applications for both iOS and Android. How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Develop high-quality mobile applications using React Native for iOS and Android platforms.
• Work alongside the Mobile lead within projects of varying scope and size.
• Work closely with the UI/UX team to ensure design and user experience is consistent and meets requirements.
• Development of new or existing applications and solutions in line with application designs, development standards, methodologies, and strategic architecture frameworks.
• Work as a lead alongside technical SMEs within projects of varying scope and size.
• Provide input to solution design teams about the technical breakdown of applications, impact analysis, and validation of proposed solutions.
• Evaluate existing products and solutions to propose practical improvements, taking ownership and working with colleagues and business owners to implement changes.
• Drive improvements to development practices and technical documentation.
• Take ownership of maintaining and expanding development standards within your technical domain.
• Work closely with business owners and solution designers, lead development of proof of concepts to ensure end-to-end solutions are fit for purpose.
• Investigate and propose the establishment of new technologies and methodologies that can improve development practices and products.
• Manage implementation activities, change control, and release planning.
• Take ownership of improvements for internal documentation of products and technical solutions.
• Become the point of contact for technical and domain-specific support for other teams within your technical domain.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Strong experience in developing mobile application development with a focus on React Native (essential)
• Strong and proven development experience in C# and .Net (desirable).
• Comprehensive knowledge of the full end-to-end mobile development lifecycle, including experience deploying in Android and iOS ecosystems, tools, and processes.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript experience (desired)
• Experience with Redux or similar state management libraries.
• Understanding of alternate mobile development frameworks and techniques, native mobile development on both iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft App Centre and deployment processes to mobile app stores.
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization techniques.
• Strong DevOps experience using Azure DevOps, Webpack, Babel, and npm.
• Strong infrastructure experience of servers, WAF, Firewall estate.
• Knowledge of coding standards and source control techniques.
• Excellent Test Script and Documentation skills.
• Experience working in more than one of the following service delivery functions: development, support, software design, or environment configuration.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role, you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with the option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

Be at the Heart of Bupa

Be at the heart of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive, and the talent to help us in our ambition, then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa, you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect, and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.