Software Engineer, Advanced

Overview:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We're Looking For:

The ideal candidate is a master of the Android platform with deep, hands-on development expertise and a proven ability to mentor others. You will take the lead in solving our most complex technical challenges, driving architectural decisions, and working with a global team to deliver exceptionally robust, secure, and high-performance mobile solutions.

Responsibilities

• As a hands-on developer, you will be responsible for use case review, planning, coding, mentoring, reviewing code, test case identification and help releaase products every sprint.

• As an experienced technical lead, you are expected to resolve complex customer issues when needed.

• Lead Application Architecture and Development: Drive the architectural vision and design for new and existing Android applications. Establish best practices and patterns for writing clean, scalable, and maintainable code across the team.

• Solve the Hardest Technical Challenges: Act as the go-to expert for the team's most complex technical problems, including deep-level OS interactions, advanced concurrency, and secure inter-application communication (IPC).

• Drive Technical Excellence and Mentorship: Take ownership of the overall technical quality of the product. Mentor other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pair programming to elevate the team's skills and ensure high standards.

• Lead Secure and Scalable Integrations: Lead the design and implementation of seamless and secure communication with backend systems. Set the standard for consuming and optimize RESTful APIs to ensure long-term data integrity and scalability.

• Lead Performance Engineering Efforts: Spearhead initiatives to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. Guide the team in profiling and optimizing applications for memory efficiency, CPU usage, and battery life to meet the rigorous demands of enterprise use cases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of professional experience dedicated to native Android application development, with a demonstrated history of technical leadership.

• Core Skills: Expert-level mastery of Kotlin and Java, with a deep architectural understanding of the Android OS internals, Android Jetpack, multi-threading, and asynchronous programming.

• Architectural Leadership: Proven ability to lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale applications using modern patterns like MVVM or MVI, including experience with significant refactoring or modularization efforts.

• Advanced Components: In-depth, expert knowledge of the Android application lifecycle, services, and complex components, including Android Foreground Services, AIDL, and Content Providers.

• API & Security: Mastery of secure coding practices, data encryption, and secure cloud communication, with experience designing robust API interaction patterns.

• Testing: A strong commitment to quality, with solid experience designing testable code and implementing comprehensive unit testing strategies.

• Problem-Solving & Mentorship: Exceptional troubleshooting, analytical, and logical skills, combined with a proven ability to mentor other engineers and lead technical discussions in a global team.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent with practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Full-Stack Architecture: Experience designing or influencing end-to-end system architecture, including frontend, backend (e.g., ReactJs, Node.js, Spring Boot), and database components.

• Peripheral Integration: Hands-on experience architecting solutions that involve NFC, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), or other proximity-based technologies.

• Enterprise Mobility: Deep knowledge of Android Enterprise and experience architecting applications for Mobile Device Management (MDM/EMM) environments.

• SSO: Experience leading to the integration of Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions like OAuth2 or SAML.

Incentive Compensation:

In addition to base pay, Zebra offers this role the opportunity to earn a performance-based annual cash incentive, at a target equal to 12% of base pay, in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan.

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