Sr. Software Engineer, Kotlin Mobile Applications (Remote)

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Position Purpose:

The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and continuously enhancing mobile applications that support driver and associate workflows. This role focuses on building reliable, scalable, and user-focused handheld solutions that enable efficient execution of critical activities in the field.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will work within a collaborative product and engineering team to develop, deploy, and support production applications while improving application performance, reliability, and overall user experience. You will provide technical leadership through solution design, code quality, troubleshooting, and ongoing application modernization.

In addition, Sr. Software Engineers may contribute to technology and tool selection, system configuration, security, resilience, performance optimization, production monitoring, and technical standards while mentoring less experienced engineers and helping strengthen engineering practices across the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
• 20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• 10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2–4 years of relevant software engineering experience, with extensive experience developing mobile and/or frontend applications
• Experience with Kotlin and Android mobile application development strongly preferred
• Experience developing mobile applications for Android and/or iOS platforms, including building, testing, deploying, and supporting production applications
• Experience with frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably Kotlin and/or Java
• Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, cloud computing technologies, CI/CD tools, and modern software design patterns
• Experience with security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication
• Experience creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests
• Experience with modern debugging, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control systems
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and providing technical guidance to junior developers
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering and product teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and user-focused mobile solutions

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $80,000.00 - $180,000.00