Sr Android Engineer

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We are currently seeking an Advanced Android Engineer to work in one of our locations.

Location: Cincinnati, OH; Charlotte NC; Chicago, IL; Boca Raton, FL; Portland, OR

Hybrid role 2-3 days a week in the office

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 allow 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or in a STEM major
• 5+ years of experience working on large scale (Enterprise) 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive team-based environment.
• Experience building solutions using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)

About US:

From one tiny Cincinnati grocery store more than a century ago, we’ve grown into what today is the nation’s largest grocer with nearly 2,800 stores in 35 states operating under 28 different names. As America’s grocer, we take pride in bringing diverse teams with a passion for food and people together with one common purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit. With a history of innovation, we work tirelessly to create amazing experiences for our customers, communities AND each other, with food at the heart of it all.

Here, people matter. That’s why we strive to provide the ingredients you need to create your own recipe for success at work and in life. We help feed your future by providing the value and care you need to grow. If you’re caring, purpose-driven and hungry to learn, your potential is unlimited.

Whether you’re seeking a part-time position or a new career path, we’ve got a fresh opportunity for you. Apply today to become part of our Kroger family!