Sr Software Engineer, Mobile (2 Year Project)

Universal Orlando • Orlando, United States • 3w ago

Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You’ll learn more about this during the recruitment process.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Software Engineer will have a unique opportunity to utilize Flutter as a cross-platform language to build large mobile applications and experiences in support of our theme parks. This role will work with our mobile team to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications that will be leveraged across our parks and venues around the world. The Senior Software Engineer will work closely with other app development and technical teams. The role will provide highly specialized skills and knowledge that will enable the successful design, code, and delivery of complex solutions for Digital & Technology in support of business requirements. This includes writing, coding, testing, analyzing, and supporting complex codebases along with configuration management of new Flutter applications.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design & Development

Design, develop, and implement exceptional mobile solutions.
Be a mobile domain expert for development teams as part of implementation.
Collaborate towards strategic direction and delivering the ‘art of the possible’ for improvements and/or alternatives.
Interface and coordinate tasks with technical resources.
Collaborate with Project Managers, and vendors to assist in providing estimates and develop applications that drive the installation, customization, and integration efforts of various experiences.

Technical Collaboration

Confer with delivery teams, product team, or management to refine business requirements and collaborate on technical designs and resolve technical issues.
Participate and actively engage with other developers, architects, and domain experts.

Strategy & Planning

Take action in executing strategies determined by technical leadership with the mobile organization.
Provide mobile insight to non-technical partners, and DevOps engineers.
Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
Build and maintain repository for deliverables.
Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
Perform other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related subject preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

5+ years of software experience.
Extensive hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
A solid background in software development with the ability to be a hands-on coder and knowledge of APIs and SDKs.
Proven experience in system design and development.
Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices.
Strong knowledge of software evaluation principles and practices.
Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
Extensive knowledge of mobile languages and design patterns including but not limited to Flutter, Dart, MVC, and MVVM.
Strong knowledge of Flutter’s plugin ecosystem, BLoC, CMS Driven Widget Design, Atomic Design, Widget Trees, and other Flutter UI concepts.
Proficient with Git, Git flow and other branching strategies.
Experience with pull requests and performing code reviews.
Experience with RESTful APIs using JSON.
Experience designing application architecture.
Experience creating frameworks and integrating external SDK’s.
Experience with localization within a Flutter application.
Experience working on a development team that practices Agile/scrum methodologies.
Familiarity with continuous integration tools.
Solid architecture, analytic, design and problem-solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication.
Ability to understand and maintain existing complex codebases.
Passionate about mobile technologies and building great guest experiences.
Aptitude to work as change agent that believes in a continuous improvement approach.
Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), continuous integration, agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
Excellence in communication with the ability to communicate complicated technical design ideas to a range of people from developers to executives.
Strong experience with reverse proxies, web servers, API gateways, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices, database technologies;
or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Experience developing in global enterprise engineering projects or teams is a plus.
A self-starter with the ability to manage a broad workload and accommodate change with a proven ability to deliver results.
The Senior Software Engineer will work closely with application owners to develop integrations with a focus on security, performance, reliability, reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
The Senior Software Engineer will also build an in-depth technical knowledge of Universal’s global portfolio of systems and platforms and act as a subject matter expert for delivery teams and support teams.
The Senior Software Engineer will be a subject matter expert across mobile platforms.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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