Senior Mobile Engineer. - Android

About Emerging TechTeam

The Emerging Tech team is passionate about solving customer and associate problems with the newest technologies. The team is responsible for creating breakthrough capabilities, delivering frictionless experiences and making these technologies easily available to thousands of Walmart developers and 2.2 million associates. The applications and services built on these capabilities are used by hundreds of millions of customers daily.We are building new platform to bring physical and digital world together.

Responsibilities

• Develops innovative mobile technology solutions and strategies to support business objectives by collaborating with cross-functional business partners.
• Developing assessments of key opportunities; benchmarking and analyzing industry best practices; forecasting for future technologies; driving high-priority initiatives; identifying and implementing solutions.
• Communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization; influencing the industry to adopt sustainable solutions.
• Defining software development guidelines, standards, and processes.
• Develop medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects for Mobile Engineering by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project requirements.
• Translating requirements into mobile solutions for multiple operating systems (for example, iPhone, Android); gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames).
• Writing and developing code (for example, JavaScript) that can be applied to multiple types of mobile devices; integrating solutions to ensure they are applicable to multiple operating systems.
• Developing user interface solutions; conducting testing to ensure solution is functional; communicating project status and roadblocks to team members and stakeholders.
• Determining solutions to issues; enhancing design to prevent reoccurrence of defects across multiple devices; ensuring on-time delivery.
• Collaborating with project managers to provide guidance on project implementation plan.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities.
• Removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly.
• Developing contingency plans; demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application.
• Ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives.
• Consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Participating in and supporting community outreach events.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• 9+ years of Android platform experience
• 5+ years of programming experience in Kotlin.
• Thorough understanding of Android App development -- its core principles, software design patterns, and best practices
• Deep understanding of various aspects of Mobile App Development
• Experience in integrating with REST based backend services
• Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects
• Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge integrating 3rd party SDKs and APIs
• Experience in caching, logging, performance tuning, and monitoring
• Experience in App Profiling (concepts like Rendering performance, battery issues, thread count and memory dumps)
• Non-functional Testing: GPU overdraw, Rendering performance, Battery issues, CPU, Thread count, Memory consumptions and leaks, Network data transfer. (Crashes and ANR)
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills

Required Skills

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge integrating 3rd party SDKs and APIs
• Experience in caching, logging, performance tuning, and monitoring
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills

Pay range and compensation package

Minimum Qualifications: BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Equal Opportunity Statement

Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

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