Lead Mobile Software Engineer (Hybrid, Android)

XPO Logistics, Inc.; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off

9 paid company holidays

401(k) option with company match

Education assistance

Incentive plan

Job summary

XPO Logistics, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI, seeks a Lead Engineer, Software Engineering (Mobile Development) to drive the design, development, and delivery of mobile business applications.

The role requires hands-on leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering high-quality software on schedule. You will mentor developers, coordinate tasks, and ensure best practices across Windows, UNIX, and various mobile platforms, including Android.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work or military experience.
• 4 years of experience in software development, including creating business applications with relational and non-relational database systems, within a fast-paced software development environment.
• 4 years of mobile application development. Android required.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical lead role.
• Advanced knowledge of IT software development methodologies and processes in an agile environment (Scrum).
• Full Stack development experience using C#, Xamarin/Maui, and/or React Native
• Experience with SQL and relational databases (Oracle)
• Experience creating and consuming distributed data services (REST APIs, Messaging Buses) and SOA design patterns.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting feature requirements.
• Experience with multithreaded application design
• Experience working under multiple operating systems like Windows, UNIX (Sun Solaris and Linux), and UNIX Shell scripting.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging frameworks for application integration, Google Firebase preferred.
• Experience in production support activities by monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
• Experience in source control management using GIT
• Effective, independent, team player, and self-starter with high adaptability to modern technologies

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, including the design, development, and delivery of business technology-enabled applications, products, and services.
• Be responsible for meeting project schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements.
• Drive proficiency within teams, provide resolution to technical issues, ensure best practices are followed, and assist management in meeting strategic initiatives while contributing to smooth business operations.
• Coordinate technical tasks and ensure teams are working efficiently; oversee the development/support of specific IT areas and systems, and the timely delivery of projects.
• Contribute to defining new business requirements; identifying and communicating risks to the business; investigating and proposing new tools and frameworks to deliver quality products faster.
• Act as a liaison between project management, technical teams, and IT leadership; assure best practices are defined and followed; drive consistency across applications and projects wherever possible.
• Manage all aspects of coding for the team – branching, code review, ensuring code reusability and maintainability with constant refactoring, collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture team on standards and approaches. Ultimately accountable for the quality of the code for the project.
• Mentor developers and help resolve technical roadblocks; conduct collaborative code reviews and coordinate the deployment and implementation of software solutions; recognize organizational/team challenges and address them with management.
• Be available for production application deployment and troubleshooting hours and/or on an on-call basis

Skills

Mobile development

Technical lead

C# / Xamarin

React Native

Agile / Scrum

REST APIs

SOA design patterns

SQL & Oracle

Multithreaded design

Git

Windows / UNIX

Firebase

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Firebase

Oracle

Job description

XPO Logistics, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI, seeks a Lead Engineer, Software Engineering (Mobile Development) to drive the design, development, and delivery of mobile business applications.

The role requires hands-on leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering high-quality software on schedule. You will mentor developers, coordinate tasks, and ensure best practices across Windows, UNIX, and various mobile platforms, including Android.