- Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness
- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy
- Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events
Team and Position Summary:
This role is on our Discovery Search FE team where we own the user experience for search, browse and deals pages entirely.
Position Responsibilities:
You want a challenge Come join a team that is merging digital and physical, building real-time systems at scale, responding quicker to changes.
you'll sweep us off our feet if you
Act as the Subject Technical Owner for the team, taking ownership of technical projects and solutions.
Lead by example, setting technical standards and driving overall technical architecture and design.
Mentor junior developers, enhancing their skills and understanding of Android development.
Desire to keep up with technology trends
Encouraging others to grow and be curious. Provide technical leadership in every stage of the development process, from design to deployment, ensuring adherence to best practices.
Have the desire to learn
Maintain and improve application performance, compatibility, and responsiveness across various devices and Android versions.
Drive for engineering and operational excellence, delivering high-quality solutions and processes.
you'll make an impact by
What you'll do
Lead a team of senior Individual Contributors
Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team.
Supports business objectives by collaborating with business partners to identify opportunities; addressing high-priority initiatives (for example, business strategy, technical feasibility, implementation alternatives); identifying short- and long-term solutions; and leading cross-functional partnership.
Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Marts technology environment by analyzing industry best practices; bench marking industry against internal processes and solutions; researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with internal needs; and defining software development guidelines, standards and processes.
Position Requirements
10 - 15 years of experience with 7-10 years of Mobile Engineer experience with Android
Sound experience in Java/Kotlin
Familiar with latest Android concepts
Sound experience to build CICD pipeline
Knowledge integrating 3rd party SDKs and APIs
Excellent debugging and problem-solving capability
Motivated team player who goes over and above what is asked
Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization and cross-device compatibility.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines with attention to detail.
Additional Qualifications:
Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
Exposure to information retrieval and statistics.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
Minimum Qualifications Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications
Master s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years experience in software engineering or related area
