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About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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As a Senior, Software Engineer - Android, you will join the team responsible for the Android experiences powering the Walmart Marketplace customer discovery journey. You will build and evolve high-performance native applications for pre-purchase experiences, including Search, Browse, and Item Pages. Your daily responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable mobile solutions, owning end-to-end feature delivery, and mentoring teammates. You will utilize Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern architecture patterns like MVVM/MVI, while leveraging Hilt, Dagger, Coroutines, and Flow. Technical tasks involve integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and offline data synchronization while optimizing for memory, networking, and battery efficiency. You will also use JUnit, Espresso, and Mockito for testing. This role solves the technical challenge of providing fast, reliable, and accessible mobile shopping experiences for a large-scale marketplace.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1206 postings across 79 companies.
Design, develop, and maintain high-quality native Android applications using Kotlin and modern development best practices.
Own end-to-end delivery of complex features from technical design and implementation through testing and production rollout.
Build responsive and accessible user experiences using Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns.
Develop clean, modular, and testable code following MVVM/MVI architectures and dependency injection.
Optimize application startup time, rendering performance, memory usage, networking, and battery efficiency.
Implement robust testing strategies including unit, UI, and integration tests within automated CI/CD pipelines.
Monitor production health using crash reporting, observability tools, and performance metrics to proactively resolve issues.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical documentation to promote engineering best practices.
What we're looking for
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.
Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering (preferred).
Strong experience building and shipping large-scale native Android applications using Kotlin.
Experience with Jetpack Compose, Android SDK, Android Jetpack libraries, and modern Android architecture components.
Deep understanding of MVVM/MVI architectures, dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger), Coroutines, and Flow.
Experience with automated testing frameworks including JUnit, Espresso, Compose UI Testing, and Mockito.
Experience leveraging AI-powered developer tools and integrating AI/ML capabilities into mobile applications (preferred).