Principal Mobile Application Engineer

GameStop; Grapevine (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming retailer is seeking a Principal Mobile Application Engineer in Grapevine, TX. The role involves delivering scalable mobile applications that enhance customer experience and mentoring fellow engineers. Candidates should have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with consumer-facing applications, and thrive in an agile environment. A customer-focused approach and problem-solving skills are essential for this position.

Benefits

Incentive programs

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k)

Employee discount

Casual work environment

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise in consumer-facing mobile applications at scale.
• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in Ecommerce or Marketplace Applications.

Responsibilities

• Deliver scalable customer-facing products for millions of customers.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to peers.
• Optimize performance on an ongoing basis.

Skills

Building consumer-facing mobile applications

Software engineering design

Technical mentorship

Problem-solving

Agile development environment

Job description

GameStop is looking for a Principal Mobile Application Engineer. This role will collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and business partners distributed across the U.S. In this role, you will help design, build, and maintain a new, highly scalable application that will delight millions of GameStop customers. The ideal candidate will be customer-obsessed, highly collaborative, and passionate about creating customer experiences that are both frictionless and delightful. This position will sit on-site in Grapevine, TX.

Responsibilities

• Deliver highly scalable customer-facing products and features, used by millions of GameStop customers.
• Participate in and provide input to technical decisions. Refine our app frameworks, processes, and standards.
• Write scalable, performant, readable, and tested code. Monitor, track, and optimize performance on an ongoing basis.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to peers and more junior engineers.
• Use data to provide input to prioritization decisions.
• Thrive in an ambiguous environment, be resourceful, and make tradeoffs to deliver customer impact.
• Exhibit a bias for action, constantly looking for ways to improve the customer experience.
• Establish strong working relationships across all levels and functions of the organization.
• Ensure all deadlines are met and other responsibilities as assigned.
• Operate independently given direction, set direction and bring ideas and solutions to issues raised.

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise working on consumer facing mobile applications at scale.
• Demonstrated organizational-wide impacting experience building both iOS and Android consumer facing applications at scale.
• 10+ years in overall software engineering design and development experience.
• 5+ years in design and development of Ecommerce or Marketplace Applications.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile development environment.
• Bonus points if you’ve developed auction software at scale in the past.

Related Competencies

• Building Strategic Working Relationships – Develop and leverage collaborative relationships with colleagues throughout the organization to build credibility and strong partnerships.
• Business Acumen – Understand complex business issues and what drives good decision making.
• Navigating Complexity — Proactively and quickly makes sense of complex issues; responds effectively to complex and ambiguous situations; communicates complex information simply.
• Innovation and Problem Solving — Generating innovative solutions in work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.

Full-time store positions at GameStop are also eligible to participate in incentive programs, health benefits, paid time off, 401 (k), employee discount and a casual work environment. Positions at GameStop may also be eligible for a bonus and / or other incentives.