AngularJS Senior Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work. Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs. Join us and you'll discover why our company is a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

About the Team:

Sam’s Mobile Solutions team is a cross functional innovative team focusing on Sam’s Club member facing mobile applications. Our engineering team built top rated android and iOS apps helping millions of our members shop online and in club. Our signature projects include Scan and Go, Sam’s Mobile Fuel, Sam’s Concierge Service, and Curbside pickup.  We also work closely with the Sam’s now club in Dallas, which is a club with and directive for innovation and experimentation.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if: 

• You love code. You love to take raw ideas and build great products with Kotlin on Android. You might like to talk about obscure computer science topics, but really, you just want to write simple code and ship new products and features to customers (or improve existing ones).
• You love great UX. You spend most of your time coding, but you also have an eye for great design and a feel for great UX. Maybe you were once a designer (or still are) or maybe your creative outlet has always been the code. Either way, you care about more than just the code.
• You love learning new things. You love researching new tech and driving forward with the implementation details. Your focus is on Android app development with Kotlin, but you can dig in wherever needed. Java, Javascript, Node.js, GraphQL, build tools, shell scripts, you name it. If you don't already know it, you're ready to learn it.
• You have a deep interest and passion for technology and want to build next-generation front end applications. You come from the retail industry.
• You are curious about building highly available, highly resilient systems with single-digit latency and want to build them in real life where every day you are solving a new challenge and learning new things. You have had a role that consists of designing, developing code, bug fixing, and DevOps.
• You are a fast learner and have strong problem-solving, analytic, decision-making skills.
• You have excellent communication with interpersonal skills. 
• You enjoy taking ownership and delivering on a commitment. 
• You work well with Proof of Concept (POC) and Minimum Viable Product projects.  Sometimes these projects will not be well defined or move past POC.  You understand big picture needs and can manage decisions appropriately without needing detailed directions.

Required Skills:

• Research, guide, and execute frontend architecture changes, including but by no means limited to Kotlin on Android.
• 6+ years of solid experience in mobile application development frameworks (API, testing, deployment, etc.) building a highly responsive mobile App.
• Experience writing Kotlin Multi Platform code for hardware and other uses outside Android on mobile phones.
• Build reusable Android components, orchestrate user-interactions integrating with backend services via REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in Design, Development, Coding, Testing, and Releasing to QA.
• Experience with monitoring App performance, stability, and success rate and leveraging data to improve the same.
• Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing code reviews.
• A strong foundation of software design – know-how to create software that’s extensible, reusable, and meets desired architectural objectives.
• Emphasis on the performance, quality, and responsiveness of the app. Knowledge of memory management and multi-threading. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect to back-end services.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace/Monitoring tools, Google Cloud Platform, or Kafka

 
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Who We Are

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, operating almost 600 clubs in the US. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners.

Benefits & Perks
Beyond competitive pay, 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. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 and 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related field OR 5 years’ experience in software
engineering or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field

Primary Location...

603 MUNGER AVE STE 400, DALLAS, TX 75202, United States of America