Software Engineer, Android

Position: (USA) Staff, Software Engineer, Android
Position Summary

Position Summary...

What you'll do

You will be able to design and deliver readable, maintainable, testable, scalable, reusable, and efficient code. You'll have an opportunity to work in an Agile team with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to solve most exciting and challenging problems. Collaborate with Backend teams to design and develop mobile apps. Follow established architecture patterns and suggest improvements. You'll have opportunity to manage the complex challenges of microservice and scale which are unique to Walmart's e-commerce, stores, and omni‑channel platform, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complex triaging and analysis, and large‑scale system design.

About Team

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop , through one of our mobile apps, or in‑store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in‑store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

Responsibilities

• You architect and lead the implementation to support new functionalities and user experiences.

• You work with your manager, product, operations and design, to plan, execute, and deliver on sprint, quarterly and project goals.

• You serve as a Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership and mentorship to your teammates, other teams and engineers.

• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering and apply this to the development of action plans. Analyze business problems to design solutions and/or implement and test complex code changes for specific requirements or application. Deliver high quality code for the product requirements in an agile scrum sprint.

• Investigate and fix software defects.

• Assure app stability and code coverage by writing Unit and Functional tests.

• Collaborate with platform team members across web, iOS and Android to align on solutions across platforms.

• Utilize industry open‑source research, tools, and practices to improve Walmart technology environment.

• Design complex systems which are scalable and fault tolerant. You will reason about trade‑offs (timeliness/accuracy/resource usage) of multiple algorithmic solutions and to highlight the difference in product outcomes.

• Implement application which meet throughput and SLAs requirements. Implement unit test cases, perform code reviews, and write feature documentation. Perform build, deployment, and continuous integration processes to move the code and configurations from local development environments to QA, Production environments.

• Perform code reviews of proposed source changes.

What you'll bring

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

• 10+ years of professional experience in various elements of software development native mobile, Android and hands‑on coding experience in the past

• Experience with a consumer facing app and ecommerce or retail shopping

• Good hands on Gradle tooling, static and dynamic code analysis, mobile app performance, analytics frameworks.

• Previous knowledge of Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform

• Unit‑testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Work with outside data sources and APIs

• Experience translating wireframes into pixel‑perfect views

• Knowledgeable about animation and screen transitions

• Experience with Android SDK, Services, and various methods of background processing

• Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON, Google Cloud Messaging, and the HTTP protocol

• Experience with Google Play APIs:
Maps, Location, and Cloud Messaging

• Experience with third‑party libraries and APIs

• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle and writing readable, maintainable, performant object‑oriented code

• Experience working with Kotlin, Coroutines, MVVM, MVVM Clean, View Models, Repository Design pattern, and other…