Hybrid: 1-2 Days Onsite San Jose, CA

12 Month Contract To Hire

Company: Kroger

Compensation Negotiable

Lead Android Developer

Design, develop, and maintain native Android components that drive key functionalities within the Kroger Ecommerce App. This includes:

o Navigation and informational features that guide and inform our customers.

o User interfaces that empower customers to seamlessly select their grocery preferences (delivery or pickup)

Lead the technical direction of the Android team by making key planning and implementation decisions.

Contribute to the team's software development efforts by writing clean, maintainable code.

Foster a collaborative and supportive environment by providing mentorship and guidance to junior developers.

Champion strong communication practices and effectively interface with Product, Design, and QA teams.

Qualifications:

5 years of experience with Android development

Proven experience as a Senior Android Developer with a strong understanding of native Android development principles (Kotlin, Android SDK, Jetpack compose, etc.)

Experience with Android build, test, debug, and CI/CD tools to compile, test, package, and ship large scale Android applications.

Experience with concurrency and performance optimization (Coroutines (sp), Flows, WorkManager and Background Services)

Working knowledge of architecture patterns that promote decoupling, code reuse, maintainability, and testability.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Can translate requirements, wireframes and mock-ups into reusable components and layouts.

Strong problem-solving skills, detail oriented, works well in a team and individually.

Bonus points for:

Experience with ecommerce app development

Knowledge of Accessibility and Security: Building apps that are accessible to everyone and secure from vulnerabilities is important.

Passion for the Mobile Development & the grocery industry

Key Responsibilities

-Ensure adherence to architecture standards and roadmaps.

-Implement overall infrastructure / middleware components per project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution.

-Design and successfully implement overall infrastructure / middleware components per project with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA (performance and up-time), DR, and scalability needs required by the solution.

-Ensure that post-production operational processes / deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase.

-Define and create operational procedures, processes, and scripts.

-Follow appropriate change/release management practices.

-Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies. Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required."