Position Summary
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Walmart's health and wellness team aims to revolutionize how customers manage their health, from managing medications, tracking health stats, scheduling immunization and vaccinations, receiving clinical services, to managing health records and beyond.
The Mobile Engineering team is looking for a Senior Mobile (iOS) Engineer who is interested in adding features to Walmart's main iOS app, which is in 100% Swift (and uses modern programming patterns).
The team originally created the Walmart Wellness app; however, we are now bringing these features into Walmart's main app to reach the millions of users that utilize it every day!
About Team
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders.
We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.
What You'll Do
Leads the discovery phase of large Mobile Engineering projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project strategy;
interpreting strategy into sustainable mobile solutions; driving prototype development to ensure concept is feasible; and implementing prototypes to validate projects.
- Troubleshoots business and production issues for mobile devices by reviewing and analyzing information; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues;
- analyzing issues based on expert knowledge of mobile devices and programming; formulating and implementing an action plan;
interpreting results to determine further action; and performing root cause analysis across multiple mobile devices to prevent future occurrence of issues.
- Design and develop shared solutions and generic components for client software development kits.
- Leads project teams for Mobile Engineering projects by providing direction regarding project plan; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timelines;
- providing guidance regarding project issues or roadblocks; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns;
and performing design and code reviews of changes.
- Develops innovative mobile technology solutions and strategies to support business objectives by collaborating with cross-functional business partners;
- developing assessments of key opportunities; benchmarking and analyzing industry best practices; forecasting for future technologies;
- driving high-priority initiatives; identifying and implementing solutions; communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization;
influencing the industry to adopt sustainable solutions; and defining software development guidelines, standards, and processes.
- Leads medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects for Mobile Engineering by collaborating with cross-functional teams to determine project requirements;
- translating requirements into mobile solutions for multiple operating systems; gathering requested information; writing and developing code that can be applied to multiple types of mobile devices;
- integrating solutions to ensure they are applicable to multiple operating systems; developing user interface solutions; conducting testing to ensure solution is functional;
- communicating project status and roadblocks to team members and stakeholders; determining solutions to issues; enhancing design to prevent reoccurrence of defects across multiple devices;
ensuring on-time delivery; and collaborating with project managers to provide guidance on project implementation plan.
What You'll Bring
- BS / MS in Computer Science or related field
- 4-5+ years of iOS platform experience
- 4-5+ years of programming experience in Swift, iOS SDK, etc.
- Thorough understanding of iOS App development its core principles, software design patterns, and best practices
- Deep understanding of various aspects of Mobile App Development
- Experience in integrating with REST based backend services
- Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects
- Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization
- Experience in CI / CD pipelines
- Knowledge integrating 3rd party SDKs and APIs
- Experience in caching, logging, performance tuning, and monitoring
- Experience in App Profiling (concepts like Rendering performance, battery issues, thread count and memory dumps)
- Non-functional Testing : GPU overdraw, Rendering performance, Battery issues, CPU, Thread count, Memory consumptions and leaks, Network data transfer.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills
Minimum Qualifications
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position :
- Option 1 : Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2 : 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
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
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