Mobile Engineering Lead (Android & Cross-Platform)

XPO, Inc.; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance on day one

Life and disability insurance

15 days PTO in first year

9 paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Education assistance

Incentive plan

Job summary

XPO, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI, is seeking a Lead Engineer, Software Engineering (Mobile Development). You will provide technical leadership, directing design, development, and delivery of mobile business applications and services.

The role requires 4 years of mobile app development with Android, 4 years in software development, and experience with C#, Xamarin/Maui, or React Native; the position supports a hybrid work model and offers strong benefits.

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.
• Coding project deliverables
• 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

Technical leadership

Agile Scrum

Multithreaded design

Android development

REST APIs

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GIT

Oracle

REST APIs

Firebase

Job description

XPO, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI, is seeking a Lead Engineer, Software Engineering (Mobile Development). You will provide technical leadership, directing design, development, and delivery of mobile business applications and services.

The role requires 4 years of mobile app development with Android, 4 years in software development, and experience with C#, Xamarin/Maui, or React Native; the position supports a hybrid work model and offers strong benefits.