Sr. Android Software Engineer

The role is for a Android Engineer working on the Kroger E-commerce Wallet Team. This team is a cross-functional engineering team at Kroger, focused on digital payments. They are responsible for the development, quality assurance, and delivery of the Wallet product across Web and Native (mobile) platforms.

Responsible for participating in the design, development, testing, debugging, maintaining, and documenting software components in accordance to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices. Establish estimates and work plans for design, development, implementation, and rollout tasks. Communicate with the appropriate teams to ensure that assignments are delivered with the highest of quality and in accordance to standards. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

• Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase
• Responsible for development implementation of technical design within a defined set of teams. Execute against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy
• Participate in implementing enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance
• Provide technical clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
• Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
• Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state solution
• Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or a STEM major
• 3+ years of successful and applicable experience taking a lead role in building complex software ad automation systems that has been successfully delivered to customers
• 3+ years of proven track record of designing and delivering large scale, high-quality systems
• 3+ years of successful and applicable hands‑on experience in software or infrastructure development domain and principles, including design patterns and code structure
• Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
• Demonstrated written, oral and presentation/public speaking communication skills
• Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level
• Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations
• Understanding of network and security architecture
• +5 years of experience with Android development
• Proven experience as a Senior Android Developer with a strong understanding of native Android development principles (Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack compose, etc.)
• Experience with Android build, test, debug, and CI/CD tools to compile, test, package, and ship large scale Android applications.
• Experience with concurrency and performance optimization (Async Task, Handler Thread, Intent Service, and Corouties)
• Working knowledge of architecture patterns that promote decoupling, code reuse, maintainability, and testability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Can translate requirements, wireframes and mock-ups into reusable components and layouts.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, detail oriented, works well in a team and individually.
• Experience with ecommerce app development
• Knowledge of Accessibility and Security:
  Building apps that are accessible to everyone and secure from vulnerabilities is important.
• Passion for the Mobile Development & the grocery industry

Desired

• Any experience in Cloud software service including designing for scale, performance and reliability
• Any experience in…