Senior Android Engineer-Kotlin/Next.js/GCP-Austin, Dallas or San Antonio, TX - H-E-B

H-E-B Digital is seeking new team members (Partners)! Since our inception, we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. We’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption—like Curbside and Home Delivery—so you’ll get the opportunity to define the user experience for millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Partners. If you’re someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team. 

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Senior Android Engineer job, that means you have a...
 HEART FOR PEOPLE... you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams
 HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software
 PASSION FOR RESULTS... the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions

Overview
The Store Experience team in Digital is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our in-store mobile team. The Store Experience Mobile team is responsible for unifying and modernizing our in-store partners’ handheld device experience and elevating it to the next level.   Our partners manage products and inventory every day in our stores and the applications this engineer would be building is extremely critical to our partners' ability to operate the store.  Imagine the activities to keep a store running, while balancing multiple phones, tablets, or other hardware at once. To remove this burden from our partners’ lives, the Store Experience Mobile team is developing a next-level web solution that allows our partners one device. The ideal candidate for this position understands the importance of impactful work, enjoys reimagining systems to meet the changing needs of their users in a modernized application, keeps an eye on operational excellence for their work, and is able to jump into maintaining some legacy systems during this modernization effort.

 
What You'll Do (Development, Mobile Engineering)

• Build world-class Android applications deployed on various in-store mobile hardware for millions of users
• Contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of applications
• Support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, both diagnose and solve production support issues
• Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while applying sound technical judgment that considers technology alternatives, impact on affected / adjacent systems, and tradeoffs
• Work with Product, Design, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences
• Get the opportunity to stay ahead of new technologies with an eye to evaluating and potentially incorporating them into your team's architecture
• Apply understanding to help improve the cloud infrastructure that powers our high-performance, consumer-scale site and mobile apps
• Lead initiatives, technical design, and delivery of complex features across multiple systems to improve user experiences
• Recommend changes to processes and tools at the team level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
• Diagnose / fix highly complex technical issues independently
• Identify and communicate cross-team dependencies
• Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management; research / advise technical leadership in vendor negotiations
• Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards within assigned team
• Provide end-to-end support to applications

Who You Are

• You have 7+ years of application development experience
• You have experience with Android development (Kotlin)
• You have experience with React / Next.js 
• You have experience with GCP
• You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of successful, high-quality results
• You enjoy learning new technologies as they emerge
• You have an advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes
• You have a comprehensive knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• You have advanced knowledge of system architecture and design patterns
• You can understand architecture, design, and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems

Who We Are

• H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $40 billion
• We hire talented people (150,000+ Partners), and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business
• We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter
• We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs
• We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day
• Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company

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