JOB DESCRIPTION
This Android engineering role builds, enhances, and supports native components as part of Kroger's content management eco-system powering our omni-channel customer experiences. These components are used to create, preview, and publish customer acquisition and landing screens on our app allowing Kroger to respond to market demands in real time.
This role (Native AMP Experience) is critical to enabling DX content strategy for the Android banner app. This role builds, enhances, and supports native AMP components that allows DX and Site Production to create, preview, and publish customer acquisition and landing screens on the banner app (i.e., Home page, Brand/Department, and Seasonal pages). This role will engineer and ship native components and capabilities allowing Kroger to respond to market demands in real time using a content management system.
• Identify and uphold Android engineering best practices
• Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product
• Work with Backend Engineers to build and ship features
• Monitor app performance, watch for traffic drops related to app usability problems & rectify the issues
• Implement responsible design principles to ensure that our app renders well on most devices and is accessible.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
Accountable for proactively leading or supporting software engineering activities that create deliverables that guide the direction, development, and delivery of software solutions that meet business needs. Provide leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required to deliver critical business solutions. Develop target-state guidance (i.e., reusable standards, design patterns, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) to evolve the organization s development process. Demonstrate the company s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and, safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase
- Lead the development implementation of technology strategy within a defined set of teams. Executes against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy
- Oversee the implementation of enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance
- Provide technical leadership to ensure clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
- Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and, transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
- Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the budgeting or other capital planning processes
- Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership to shape sound architectural decisions
- Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
- Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices
- Promote the capture and reuse of intellectual capital, including code objects and components
- Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures and, other design documents
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum
• 3+ years of experience working on large scale Android applications
• Strong experience using Kotlin and the Android SDK
• Experience with modern Android libraries; specifically looking for Jetpack Compose experience.
• Can translate wireframes and mock-ups into reusable components and layouts.
• Experience with Android build, test, debug, and CI/CD tools to compile, test, package, and ship large scale Android applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills, detail oriented, works well in a team and individually
• A solid understanding of best practices and techniques regarding scalability, performance, accessibility, and security
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or in a STEM major
- 5+ years of successful and applicable experience taking a lead role in building complex software and automation systems that has been successfully delivered to customers
- 5+ years of a proven track record of designing and delivering large scale, high-quality systems
- 5+ years of successful and applicable hands-on experience in software or infrastructure development domain and principles, including design patterns and code structure
- Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
- Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, data
Location: Blue Ash, OH
Posted: Oct. 8, 2024, 7:55 p.m.
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