Mobile Engineer – Digital Servicing

Role Summary / Purpose

Billions of transactions—and you’ll touch all of them if you join our IT team as a Mobile Software Engineer - I. Imagine the sheer scale of what we impact every second of every day. Now imagine what you can do with that influence—this is where you can shape the future of payments.

The Mobile Engineer craves working in a hands‑on mobile application coding, design, and architecture environment; will build and support our mobile applications by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence. In short, you would be one of our Android wizards.

You’ll participate in hack‑athons, partner with universities on innovation events, and work with our Innovation Station. It’s the ideal time to come aboard—we’re focused on the future, continuing to evolve as a company and help define the financial technology industry. With so much opportunity available, this is where you can make your mark.

• Have passion:
  Sure you can code, but are you passionate about mobile software development?
• Have common sense:
  Building is important, but do you think through designs to ensure they’re the best solutions first?
• Are slightly obsessed with pretty code:
  Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust and scalable?
• Learn quickly and adapt to new technology:
  Let’s face it – technology changes by the minute. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?
• Think like a customer:
  Central to our products is our understanding of our customers’ needs and requirements. Do you consider UX in your decision making, and think like a customer?
• Have tech chops:
  Boasting a Computer Science background is a must

• Develop Mobile native applications using Swift/Swift
  
  UI/Java/Kotlin/Jetpack Compose as a member of the development team
• Leveraging AI tools for development and testing mobile applications.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Unit‑test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement modern technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Adhere to the compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony Financial
• Participate in Scaled Agile Train level activities and ceremonies consisting of cross‑functional teams
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma with 2 years of experience with Android application development
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

• Prior Mobile development experience
• Desire to learn and grow as a strong contributor in the Mobile development space
• Familiarity of the Scaled Agile, SAFe model and roles and responsibilities
• Familiarity with libraries and frameworks such as Retrofit, Dagger 2 and Rx Android
• Familiarity with continuous integration environments
• Familiarity writing unit, integration and UI test cases
• Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services

The salary range for this position is 75,000. USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

We’re proud to offer you flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. You will be required to commute to your nearest Hub (either virtual or physical) for in‑person engagement activities such as regular business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Field Sales and some Commercial team roles may have varied location requirements based upon partner obligations or preferences.

• You must be 18 years or older
• Yo…