Android Software Engineer

Kroger•Blue Ash, OH

13h

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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, database management, and operations
Understanding of network and security architecture
Demonstrated written, oral and, presentation/public speaking communication skills
Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level

Nice To Haves

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)
Kotlin Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of Kotlin features, including expert-level use Kotlin Coroutines, Flow, and Java interoperability.
Jetpack Compose: Mastery of declarative UI, advanced animations, state management (state hoisting), and performance optimization within the Compose framework.
Architectural Patterns: Deep understanding of MVVM, MVI, and Cloud Architecture to manage large-scale, complex applications.
Java Foundations: Robust experience with OOP, memory management, thread synchronization, and database connectivity in java backends for Android applications.
Performance Profiling: Mastery of the Android Studio Profiler and Perfetto to identify memory leaks, optimize frame rates (jank), and manage battery drain.
Data/API Integration: Expertise in Data Management and REST for efficient, low-latency data communication.
Modularity: Building libraries and robust interfaces/APIs supporting multiple teams with backward and forward compatibilities. Ability to break monolithic asks into feature modules to improve build times and maintainability.
Advanced Testing: Implementing automated testing strategies including unit testing, UI testing, and integration testing.
Product Thinking: Transitioning from "coding for tickets" to understanding user metrics and how technical features impact business goals.
Mentorship: Actively guiding junior developers and fostering a high-quality engineering culture through constructive code reviews .
Complex Problem Solving: The ability to independently resolve high-level technical debt and make critical trade-off decisions between immediate fixes and long-term architecture.
Project Stewardship: Leading large-scale technical deliverables from conception to delivery, managing technical timelines, and collaborating with intra-domain and inter-domain teams.
CI/CD Management: Proven track record with shell scripting, as well as advanced configuration of Gradle and Maven for dependency management and build automation.
AI/ML Integration: Ability to integrate on-device machine learning models (TensorFlow Lite) and Generative AI SDKs for smarter user features.
Security Best Practices: Implementation of "military-grade" security, including data encryption, certificate pinning, and secure authentication (MFA/biometrics).

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