Mobile Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Are you a passionate engineer with a thirst to build quality software that impacts millions of people? We are the Customer Experience team at Walmart Labs, and we share your enthusiasm! Walmart's mobile apps and website are used daily by millions of customers. As a member of the CE team, you'll be deeply involved with creating novel features that make customer's lives easier by linking digital and physical shopping experiences.

Our team is energized and expanding rapidly- we are on the forefront of the battle for the future of retail. You'll be working shoulder-to-shoulder with a top-notch and diverse group of iOS, Android and services developers. The team is still small enough with a true startup feel, but driven by a Fortune 1 company determined to lead the pack in eCommerce. 

We are product focused and expect our fellow engineers to be involved in all parts of the product development from product requirements and design to implementation and testing. We adapt new technologies and our work includes challenges in the areas of security, geolocation, payments, scalability and architecture.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and implement sophisticated features in Walmart Android applications.

• Work closely with product and design teams to optimize the experience for Android platform.

• Analyze and optimize Android applications.

• Experiment with new technologies and features and build quick prototypes.

• Participate in managing code & configurations for multiple environments, release management process, creating and maintaining environment configuration and controls, code integrity and work closely with platform team

• Analyzing business requirements, story-boards and similar artifacts of the scrum process, work in an agile development environment with a quick turnaround time and iterative builds.

• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design

• Leads the work of other small groups of three to five engineers

• Troubleshoots business and production issues

• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams

• Provide guidance and mentorship to the junior engineers

• Knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code

• A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment

• Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience building native Android apps in Java/Kotlin

• Shipped one or more Android applications which are still available in the Google Play Store

• Technical lead for team

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• JavaScript/React Native 

• Server-side development experience building restful APIs in frameworks like node.js

• Ability to step out of their comfort zone and use new technologies.

• Experience with unit testing, UI testing and automation. 

• Experience working in large organizations.

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.

About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.

We’re virtual
Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.

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...

840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, United States of America