Staff, Software Engineer - Android
Walmart, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Position Summary:
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
- Designing and developing innovative applications for the Android platform.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and define app functionalities.
- Troubleshooting issues and ensuring high-performance application software.
- Utilizing expertise in Android SDK, various Android libraries, databases, and network protocols to create robust and scalable apps.
- Defining, designing, and shipping new features in accordance with coding standards.
- Contributing significantly to the overall development of the organization's mobile application portfolio with a deep understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Android app development.
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, and familiarity with the Android SDK and Android Studio.
- Experience with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.
- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning.
- Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks.
- Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to troubleshoot application issues.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them.
Minimum Qualifications:
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Primary Location:
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America