IT Applications Engineer

IT Applications Engineer III

Location: Atlanta, GA or Greenwood Village, CO (Mostly remote, 1 Day/ week in the office)

Position type: Fulltime

Domain: IT/Health care

Note: This role is not eligible for H-1B, TN, F1 or OPT

Essential Responsibilities:

• Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date knowledge in subject area to meet deadlines; following procedures and policies, and applying data and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborating with others, often cross-functionally, to solve business problems; supporting the completion of priorities, deadlines, and expectations; communicating progress and information; identifying and recommending ways to address improvement opportunities when possible; and escalating issues or risks as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain native mobile applications for Android platforms using Kotlin, and Java.
• Implement clean architecture and design patterns (e.g., MVVM) to ensure maintainable and scalable codebases.
• Write automated UI tests using Espresso (Android) as part of the CI/CD pipeline to ensure quality and stability.
• Manage mobile app builds and signing workflows, including provisioning profiles, certificates, entitlements, flavors, and schemes.
• Integrate third-party libraries and SDKs, such as Firebase, analytics, and location services.
• Consume and integrate APIs, handling authentication, errors, and performance optimizations like caching and retry logic.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including design, product, QA, and DevOps to deliver seamless mobile experiences.
• Integrate content from headless CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) into dynamic mobile interfaces.
• Stay current with platform updates, tools, and industry best practices to ensure the app remains modern and competitive.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this individual contributor position is responsible for developing applications for Android and/or iOS devices under the guidance of application engineers by leveraging Agile methodologies to design and implement new customer-facing features; working with product management and UX teams to create fun, easy-to-use client applications which maximize the user experience; and adhering to standard mobile device security practices. This position will also be responsible for supporting the overall architecture of KPs mobile technologies

Must Haves:

• Four (4) years’ experience programming Java/Kotlin for the Android platform.
• Two (2) years’ experience developing automated tests using XCUITest/Espresso.
• Three (3) years’ experience working with native mobile app signing and build variants (e.g., Provisioning Profiles, Entitlements, Distribution Certificates, Xcode Scheme and Configuration, Android build types and flavors, etc.).
• Three (3) years’ experience in the development and integration of third-party source code or libraries.
• Two (2) years of work experience with CMS such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Three (3) years’ experience integrating API/services.