Staff Software Engineer-(Android/Mobile Platform) San Antonio, Texas

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll provide end-to-end support to applications and identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes. You'll make recommendations on overall application system designs, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance.

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• Work Experience: 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting
• 5+ years of experience developing mobile applications Android, iOS or Flutter
• Extensive hands-on experience with Platform tools (e.g., Golang, C/C++, Python, Java, Microservices, Kubernetes, Postgres)
• Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git Jira, Confluence)
• Expert understanding of the full SDLC and frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Safe etc.)
• Experience with one or more AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or Google Gemini)
• Expert understanding of enterprise architecture design patterns

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Area of Focus: Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals. Expert on team services and knowledgeable about adjacent services. Influences other teams. Sets goals and standards within team and influences within the organization. May own initiatives that span multiple teams. Proactively seeks out opportunities to help others grow
• Prioritization and Dependencies: Reviews epics critically and ensures they're appropriately broken down and prioritized with cross-team dependencies identified. Ensures cross-team dependencies are identified and well understood by all teams involved and other relevant stakeholders. Works across teams to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Owns risk, change, and uncertainty across multiple teams. Ability to proactively identify ambiguity and drive teams towards mitigating potential issues. Considers how ambiguity in their team's work might affect, or be affected by, the work of other teams
• Reliability and Accountability: Manages cross-team commitments, their progress, and roadmap to delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning across teams, before they require escalation. Ensures expectations across teams and stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved
• Architecture, Coding and Testing: Understands the architecture, design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services. Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors. Understands adjacent domains and the design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services as they affect their team. Expert understanding of software design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance and capable of architecting and designing at the portfolio, domain, or end-to-end solution level. Introduces new technologies that have ROI / influence. Stays ahead of technology trends and evolution with an eye to long term sustainability and growth of existing and new systems / services. Supports engineers in optimizing product-ready code. Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software. Able to lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams. Aligns teams toward simple, effective designs
• Application Support and Health: Leads production support, on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting of issues impacting multiple teams and services. Drives adoption of system health based on site reliability engineering best practices. Enacts changes to team monitoring practices that improve system and team health
• Effective Communication and Knowledge Sharing: Creates documentation and training related to technology stacks, standards, and systems/services across multiple teams. Provides constructive criticism to stakeholders across the organization
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Helps to break down barriers across teams. Looks for opportunities to share learnings and learn from others. Seeks to improve communication and collaboration between teams by building relationships and finding common ground
• Approaches Problem-Solving Holistically: Approaches problem-solving holistically and considers solutions through a combination of technology and process. Identifies best approach to improve technical solutions to complex problems and effectively proposes paths forward to drive outcomes. Capable of leading large initiatives with multiple engineers including design, architecture, and delivery of multiple complex features across multiple systems/services