Software Engineer - Android Job at Walmart (Reston)

Job Description

As a part of Walmart Global Tech (WGT) you'll build industry defining reusable customer and partner facing services and products to lead differentiated experiences and revenue sources. You will be in the unique position to serve both our customers and our associates as a member of this organization, supporting all segments of Walmart. If you are the type of person who feels a personal stake in everything you work on, has a love for data, enjoys solving complex problems, has a passion for privacy, knows how to foster strong relationships and build trust, and work for the success of an entire team, then please read further!

Job Responsibility

Build, and maintain engaging and high-performant apps for our customers at a very high scale
Produce robust, maintainable, highly tested, reusable code for developing functionality, configuration, improved performance, scalability, availability, security, monitoring and alerting for software test, integration, and production environments
Plan and implement a series of steps which potentially include reconfiguration, integration, removal, or addition of application components to enhance the application's functionality, resiliency, usability, and security
Understand the Business/Stakeholder/Technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs. Assist in creation of simple, modular, extensible functional design for the product/solution in adherence to the requirements
Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between the customer, business expectations, and the existing product/solutions
Analyze defects from past projects and solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects
Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements such as reliability, operability, performance efficiency, and security
Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks within the application
Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test cases and deployment procedures
Follow coding and design best practices developed by the teams and contribute towards their continuous improvement

Requirements

Well-rounded understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles combined with a solid knowledge of multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning
Android SDK along with good working understanding on Geo fencing api to enable location-based features in our app
Good understanding of Android sandbox and its design systems
Advanced level in Kotlin programming language, system design and UX design choices
Comfortable in exploring new ideas and writing ADR documents for peer reviews
Working knowledge on Android push notifications, In-app-messaging service integrations
Intermediate to Advanced knowledge on GraphQL / Apollo
Able to take challenges to dive deep into build tool development, Gradle build performance improvement and its tooling improvements in CI/CD pipeline
Static code analysis using lint and custom lint tooling development
Use App profiling tools to assess and improve our user experience using benchmark reporting, memory profiling, caching improvements, app launch performance improvements
Comfortable to explore and use our highly scalable data ingestion tools to triage our app
Biased towards greater code coverage choices
Motivated to contribute to achieving developer productivity across different time zones in building great customer experience with resiliency and stability in mind

Nice to have

Customer Service
We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture
Masters: Computer Science

What we offer

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities
Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
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