AVP, Principal Mobile Engineer - MySynchrony

Role Summary

The Assistant Vice President, Principal Mobile Software Development Engineer craves working in a hands on mobile environment and leads by example to make sure projects are delivered on time and to specification. To be successful in this role, you will need deep expertise in iOS or Android development, as well as a strong understanding of the entire technology stack top to bottom.

This dynamic and collaborative role will be part of the Synchrony’s Mobile App Engineering team.

Have passion: Are you passionate about mobile software development, ensuring best practices, striving the highest quality code?

Are obsessed with great code: Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust, scalable and resilient?

Are a leader: This AVP will lead cross functional teams to deliver cutting edge features to our clients. Are you up for the challenge?

Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new frameworks, tools, processes, and products?

Think like a user: Central to our products is the understanding of our user’s needs and requirements. Do you consider user experience in your decision making and think like a user?

Have tech chops: Boasting a mobile SDK development background is a must.

• Lead a development team through all phases of the Agile development life cycle
• Identify and provide technical details for features identified by business product owners
• Manage a team of software developers
• Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies
• Provide strong technical leadership for the team developing iOS applications using Swift
  
  UI/Swift/UIKit and Android applications using Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create amazing apps
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team: in this role, you will have the opportunity to influence up and down the chain of command
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony Financial
• Assist in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy and roadmap
• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross‑functional teams
• Lead Agile sprints as technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews
• Ensure application code quality through development, test, and QA
• Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports and provide direction in problem resolution
• Ability to analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes
• Provide use cases for AI to enhance our developer workflows
• Passionate about the latest technologies, open‑source projects and languages;
• Provide 24x7 on‑call support periodically throughout the year
• Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance
• Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company's products
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 6 years of experience with software engineering.
• Mobile Application Development experience with object‑oriented design and development patterns for iOS and Android platforms
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

• System level understanding of the products you’ve worked on
• Experience with library and/or framework distribution
• Experience with continuous development and integration environments
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience with Java, Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Experience with advanced Swift
  
  UI principles
• Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services
• Working knowledge of the overall mobile industry including Android and mobile web
• Excellence in technical communication with technical and non‑technical peers, including external partners
• Desire to work in a dynamic fast…