Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary

Sam's Tech Member Desk Engineering seeks a Mobile Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to architect, build, and scale innovative mobile applications for the Member Services Desk across all Sam's Club locations in the United States.

What you'll do...

• Arcitect, design, and lead the implementation of new mobile capabilities and user experiences across iOS and Android platforms.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for React Native applications while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering leadership to define roadmaps and deliver business outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end development efforts, from technical design and implementation through testing, release, and production support.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across the team and broader organization.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, observability, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to integrate and support peripheral devices, including Bluetooth/BLE devices, scanners, printers, payment terminals, or other connected devices.
• Monitor application performance, stability, and user experience metrics, leveraging data to continuously improve product quality.

About the Team

Sam's Tech Member Desk Engineering is responsible for building and managing the applications and services used at the Member Services Desk across all Sam's Club locations in the United States. Our solutions power critical member-facing experiences, including membership signups, renewals, upgrades, returns processing, and item purchases at the service desk. As we continue to modernize and enhance these experiences, we are looking for a highly experienced Mobile Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to help drive the next generation of our platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience developing and delivering mobile applications in an Agile environment.
• Strong expertise building cross-platform mobile applications for both iOS and Android using React Native.
• Deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern mobile application development practices.
• Experience leading the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of large-scale mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and building extensible, maintainable systems.
• Experience improving code quality through automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and/or Android (Kotlin/Java) development.
• Experience with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) or other cross-platform mobile technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating mobile applications with peripheral hardware, including Bluetooth/BLE devices, scanners, printers, payment terminals, or other connected devices.
• Experience troubleshooting device connectivity, communication protocols, and hardware-software integration challenges.
• Experience with mobile application observability, performance monitoring, crash analytics, and reliability engineering.
• Prior experience leading large mobile initiatives or serving as a technical lead for distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Lifetime learning benefits through Live Better U, a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.