Senior Engineer Software - Android [T500-23664]

About Albertsons Companies Inc.:

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons Companies India:

At Albertsons Companies India, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the companys technology journey to support millions of customers lives every day.

At the Albertsons Companies India, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons Companies India associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer Mobile

About the Role

We are looking for a talented and experienced native Android Engineer to join our growing mobile engineering team. You will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining cutting-edge native Android applications and SDKs. You will be involved in the entire app lifecycle, from concept and design to testing, release, and post-launch support of an array of medical and lifestyle software products. The ideal candidate is a passionate developer with a strong portfolio of Android apps and a deep understanding of the modern Android ecosystem.

Job Description:

Roles & responsibilities:

• Focus on multiple technology areas and provide technical / thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Improves code structure and architecture in service of testability and maintainability. Creates reusable code snippets as applicable.
• Contributes to design documentation
• Tech explorations / POCs and owning and managing Tech roadmap for their respective areas
• Interprets business requirements / strategies for assigned groups; articulates capabilities, problem statements and gaps to appropriate audiences
• Continually evaluates technology effectiveness / data interoperability of complex systems; influences roadmap and direction of products
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Experience Required:

• 7+ years of Software development experience within Mobile and Web frameworks / SDKs / languages such as Kotlin / Java, Android SDK, React, TypeScript / JavaScript and Compose
• Experience with cloud platform services and application development using Microsoft Azure or GCP.
• Experience in building products using a micro-services architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Familiarity with building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Familiarity and knowledge with application servers (such as Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty) and database technologies - Relational databases (such as Oracle, Azure SQL Server, Postgres SQL) and/or NoSQL (such as MongoDB or Cassandra) databases
• Experience using GitHub Co-Pilot or similar tools
• Experience with Compose and Compose Multiplatform.
• In Depth experience with automated unit testing with tools like JUnit / TestNG and test automation frameworks such as Appium, Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber / Res-Assured / Karate
• Broad expertise and knowledge with the full software development lifecycle and software development methodologies (Agile).
• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• Broad expertise and knowledge with analyzing and tuning code / application performance under High volume / High availability environments.
• Expertise and knowledge in capacity planning, systems performance analysis and optimization in a distributed client/server environment
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience with Gradle
• Experience with XCode, Android Studio, VS Code, or a similar IDE
• Experience with the setup of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience with APM tools such as Dynatrace / App Dynamics (User Experience Monitoring) is a big plus.
• DevOps experience in establishing managing Docker or Kubernetes cluster experience is a big plus

Competencies:

• Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect. They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.
• Foster innovation through creativity to get to a workable solution. Use analytical thinking through issues using logic and reason
• Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal/business ethics.
• Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions
• Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.
• Learning-Focused, finding ways to improvise in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally
• Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work
• Delighting our customers and maintaining customer relationships are top priority and they work to always deliver solutions through this lens
• Retail Industry and eCommerce Experience is a must.
• Strong expertise in ensuring the application is designed and can run in production environments with an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset
• Proficient in design patterns and architectural skills, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale initiatives while managing multiple parallel projects effectively

Mandatory Skills Required:

• Kotlin
• Jetpack Compose
• Mobile Database
• Mobile Development
• Design Patterns and Mobile Architectures (MVVM Architecture)

Additional Skills Required:

• Java
• NOSQL DB (MongoDB / Cassandra)
• Github Copilot or similar
• Cloud Platform (Azure / GCP)
• APM tools for User Experience Monitoring.