Senior Software Engineer

About the Team

It’s an exciting time in technology, and that buzz is felt throughout Pet Smart! We are continuing to grow at a faster pace and we want to continue to provide best‑class experiences for pets and pet parents.

Our Technology team has 6 different departments:
Information Security, Service Delivery, Business Enabling Systems, eCommerce & Marketing Technology, Data and Stores, Services & Supply Chain.

Whether it’s online or in our stores, the work that the IT team does is instrumental in Pet Smart’s success. We have a strategic and actionable plan underway and are looking for associates who are just as excited about it as we are.

Collaborative Work Environment
At Pet Smart, teamwork and connection are core to how we thrive. This role is based at our Phoenix Home Office, with an expectation of working a minimum of four days in the office each week. In a standard work week, associates may work up to one remote “flex day” (with leader approval). Our hybrid approach is designed to foster strong collaboration while also supporting flexibility and individual success.

Pet Smart LLC seeks a full‑time Senior Software Engineer based in Phoenix, AZ. The primary duty of the Senior Software Engineer is to design, develop, test, and deploy features on the Pet Smart native mobile application. Specific duties include:
1) Analyze business requirements, translate them into accurate development estimates and detailed plans.
2) Work with QA Engineers to determine effective test plans for each solution.
3) Conduct cross‑platform collaboration with Android and iOS Engineers to build solutions having similar structures and call sequences.
4) Conduct and participate in peer reviews of team members’ code, and provide technical guidance and support for junior engineering associates.
5) Native Android development within an enterprise environment; building and deploying apps to the Play store; implementation experience with: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Jetpack Navigation; Firebase; Bitrise; Git; and Jenkins.
6) Apply a comprehensive knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android and how to deal with different screen sizes; architectural design experience with MVP, MVC, MVVM; and calling back‑end services via RESTful and Graph

QL APIs from Android.
7) Work on the Backend for Frontend (BFF) layer, developing APIs and services using Node.js and Type Script, deploying with Git Hub Actions, and monitoring and maintaining the services in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
8) Develop native and hybrid mobile applications from Google Drive/Office
365 using Java script, Jquery, Java, CSS3 and HTML
5.
9) Write and run SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate, and analyze data from relational databases for application functionality and debugging. 10) Develop the front‑end using HTML, Bootstrap, XML, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, interactive JSP pages.

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field and five (5) years of related, progressive post‑baccalaureate experience. Experience must include three (3) years of experience, which may be concurrent, with all of the following:
1) Conducting cross‑platform collaboration with Android and iOS Engineers to build solutions having similar structures and call sequences;
2) Native Android development within an enterprise environment; building and deploying apps to the Play store; implementation experience with:
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Jetpack Navigation; Firebase; Bitrise; Git; Bitbucket; React

JS and Jenkins;
3) Architectural design experience with MVP, MVC, MVVM; and calling back‑end services via RESTful and Graph

QL APIs from Android.
4) Developing native and hybrid mobile applications from Google Drive/Office
365 using Java script, Jquery, Java, CSS3 and HTML
5.
5) Writing and running SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate, and analyze data from relational databases for application functionality and debugging.
6) Developing the front‑end using HTML, Bootstrap, XML, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, interactive JSP pages. All experience may have been gained…