Description

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:
Analyzes, designs, develops, and maintains software for the organization's products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to ensure consistency, reliability, and throughput. Develops, validates, and tests software structures and user documentation. Operates with minimal supervision and exercises significant latitude in determining the objectives of assignments, contributing to complex and high-impact projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Architects, designs, develops, and tests native Android applications for complex technical projects using Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, Jetpack libraries, and Gradle.

- Creates software specifications and Android architectural designs that are scalable, maintainable, testable, and aligned with modern patterns such as MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, and SOLID principles.

- Leads Android design reviews and code reviews; drives technical and quality improvements across performance, security, reliability, usability, and maintainability.

- Integrates Android applications with enterprise device capabilities including camera, barcode scanning, RFID, NFC, Bluetooth peripherals, sensors, location services, and Android system services.

- Builds reusable Android frameworks, SDKs, libraries, and platform components to accelerate delivery across multiple mobile products and releases.

- Investigates and resolves complex Android issues related to memory, latency, battery consumption, concurrency, application stability, and production diagnostics.

- Develops automated unit, integration, UI, and performance tests; strengthens CI/CD pipelines, build automation, release validation, and engineering quality practices.

- Collaborates with product management, UX, cloud, AI/ML, firmware, hardware, DevOps, customer-facing, and other teams to translate requirements into robust Android solutions.

- Evaluates emerging Android capabilities and prototypes of mobile experiences involving computer vision, OCR, on-device AI/ML, edge inference, and workflow automation.

- Mentors engineers, coordinates technical execution across projects, and represents Android engineering in program reviews, customer discussions, and cross-functional technical forums.

Job Requirements:
• Bachelors Degree or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree, 5+ years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree
• Equivalency: Equivalent work experience will be considered in lieu of a degree

Key Skills and Competencies:

- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including strong experience in native Android application development.

- Strong knowledge of Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Gradle, Jetpack libraries, and Android architecture components.

- Experience with MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, modular architecture, dependency injection using Hilt/Dagger, Coroutines, Flow, and asynchronous programming.

- Experience with Camera2, NDK/JNI/C++, Android Enterprise, managed configurations, REST APIs, telemetry, diagnostics, Git, CI/CD, JUnit, Espresso, Mockito, and UI automation.

- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, solve complex customer problems, and deliver enterprise-grade Android solutions with high quality and ownership.

Position Specific Information:
• Travel Requirements: Up to 15%
• Able to Telework?: Hybrid

Physical Demands:
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting or standing

Benefits:

We understand the importance of work-life balance and wellbeing, which is why we offer flexibility for our teams including: hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day to promote revitalization and success.

Job Posting Statement:

To protect candidates from falling victim to online fraudulent activity involving fake job postings and employment offers, please be aware our recruiters will always connect with you via @zebra.com email accounts. Applications are only accepted through our applicant tracking system and only accept personal identifying information through that system. Our Talent Acquisition team will not ask for you to provide personal identifying information via e-mail or outside of the system. If you are a victim of identity theft contact your local police department.

AI Technology Statement:

Zebra Technologies leverages AI technology to evaluate job applications using objective, job-relevant criteria. This approach enhances efficiency and promotes fairness in the hiring process. However, every decision regarding interviews and hiring is made by our dedicated team, because we believe people make the best decisions about people. For more on how we use technology in hiring and how we process applicant data, see our Zebra Privacy Policy.