Sr Software Engineer - Kotlin/ Java

About Lowe’s

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

For more information, visit Lowes.com.

About Lowe’s India: At Lowe's India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowe's. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance & accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowe's has a competitive edge in the market.

To know more about Lowe's India, visit Lowes.co.in

About the Team

Consumer mobile app team in the Lowe’s Digital organization, works on an open engineering culture that fosters collaborative decision making with a global team of passionate and talented mobile software engineers.

As an Android Software Development Engineer in the Lowe’s Digital organization, you will be working in an open engineering culture that fosters collaborative decision making with a global team of passionate and talented mobile software engineers.

You will have an opportunity to build best in-class customer mobile experiences; engineering complex, secure and high-quality reliable mobile apps; and holding to the highest standards of code quality and testing seriously.

You will be responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, development and overall lifecycle for a native Android product. If you are our ideal candidate, you will have demonstrated technical and problem-solving skills, a passion for technology, and strong ownership skills.

Your role within the Android Consumer Mobile Applications Team will include working closely with product management, user experience designers and other software development engineers across our locations in the US and India to deliver best in quality consumer mobile applications

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with team members to build flexible, scalable, and maintainable mobile apps
• Validates and execute unit tests, and automated UI tests to identify application errors and ensure software meet functional specs
• Participates and coaches others in all software development life cycle phases by applying an in-depth understanding of industry methodologies and standards
• Participate in code reviews to instill the highest of code quality, ensure Android best practices, and own the continuous improvement of yourself and the team
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, techniques, and innovations in Android products and development
• Share thoughts and ideas on how to improve the Android Consumer mobile application

Minimum Qualifications: 5 to 9 years, Kotlin – 3+ years.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience in Android software development, or relevant experience
• Proficient writing unit tests and UI automation tests using tools such as Espresso, Junit, Robolectric, etc.
• Strong CS/analytical skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using both Java and Kotlin
• Passionate about learning, innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
• Passionate for shipping consumer facing, high quality, mobile applications
• Should be able to collaborate, work with, and lead global teams
• Experience using Firebase SDKs
• Able to provide best practices for development, unit testing and acceptance testing
• Experience with popular architectures like MVVM and MVP
• Experience with popular libraries like Co-routines, Retrofit, OkHttp, and Dagger2, Hilt, Coin
• Experience debugging Java/Kotlin native applications
• Experience publishing app(s) in the Google Play Store
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and declarative code styling and passionate about solving real world use cases and examples.
• Able to work with problem statement given and should be able to come up with solution.
• Experience with Material Design and can provide meaningful contribution to the design process
• Experience with tools such as Gradle/Kotlin DSL’s for building Android applications/libraries
• Experience working in an Agile team environment and willingness to adapt

Preferred Experience:

• Passionate about designing and providing technical direction to the team via learning sessions and training presentations
• Knowledge of the Android SDK performance tools such as systrace or the Android Studio profiler to improve application performance
• Experience using Android Jetpack, ARCore.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under state or local law. Lowe’s wishes to maintain appropriate standards and integrity in meeting the requirements of the Information Technology Act’s privacy provisions.

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.