Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Fifty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world's biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we're reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. You'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and create a career you're proud of. 

Job Description

What you'll do:

• Leads the discovery phase of large Mobile Engineering projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project strategy; interpreting strategy into sustainable mobile solutions; driving prototype development to ensure concept is feasible; and implementing prototypes to validate projects.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues for mobile devices by reviewing and analyzing information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; analyzing issues based on expert knowledge of mobile devices and programming; formulating and implementing an action plan; interpreting results to determine further action; and performing root cause analysis across multiple mobile devices to prevent future occurrence of issues.
• Design and develop shared solutions and generic components for client software development kits.
• Leads project teams for Mobile Engineering projects by providing direction regarding project plan; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timelines; providing guidance regarding project issues or roadblocks; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Develops innovative mobile technology solutions and strategies to support business objectives by collaborating with cross-functional business partners; developing assessments of key opportunities; benchmarking and analyzing industry best practices; forecasting for future technologies; driving high-priority initiatives; identifying and implementing solutions; communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization; influencing the industry to adopt sustainable solutions; and defining software development guidelines, standards, and processes.
• Leads medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects for Mobile Engineering by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project requirements; translating requirements into mobile solutions for multiple operating systems (for example, iPhone, Android); gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code (for example, JavaScript) that can be applied to multiple types of mobile devices; integrating solutions to ensure they are applicable to multiple operating systems; developing user interface solutions; conducting testing to ensure solution is functional; communicating project status and roadblocks to team members and stakeholders; determining solutions to issues; enhancing design to prevent reoccurrence of defects across multiple devices; ensuring on-time delivery; and collaborating with project managers to provide guidance on project implementation plan.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of mobile platform experience
• 7+ years of programming experience in Swift or Kotlin
• Thorough understanding of iOS App development -- its core principles, software design patterns, and best practices
• Deep understanding of various aspects of Mobile App Development
• Experience in integrating with REST based backend services
• Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects
• Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge integrating 3rd party SDKs and APIs
• Experience in caching, logging, performance tuning, and monitoring
• Experience in App Profiling (concepts like Rendering performance, battery issues, thread count and memory dumps)
• Non-functional Testing: GPU overdraw, Rendering performance, Battery issues, CPU, Thread count, Memory consumptions and leaks, Network data transfer. (Crashes and ANR)
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills

Additional Information

Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.
Salary commensurate to experience and specialization, compensation is negotiable.

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