Lead Android Engineer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
Job Description
This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Strong Experience in native frameworks (API, unit testing, deployment, etc.)
• Excellent programming skills in Kotlin
• Familiar with MVVM pattern, data structures with solid OOP
• Experience with Android performance tools and optimization
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin, Java, and Android SDK.
• Experience with Jetpack Components (Compose, ViewModel, Room, Navigation, etc.).
• Expertise in MVVM, Clean Architecture, and SOLID principles.
• Proficiency in consuming REST APIs and handling offline caching.
• Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Espresso, and Mockito
• Demonstrated success in delivering complex full stack mobile applications across native and server-side components
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Excellent communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem solving and analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Utilizes technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers to continue to raise the engineering bar across the organization
• Works to drive both high level and detailed technical designs, conducts technical reviews and define solution requirements and technical implementation approaches
• Defines the team's roadmap in line with the company and technology vision
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law