Sr Mobile Development Engineer at Horizontal Talent in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Job Description:

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The Sr. Mobile Development Engineer is responsible for leading technical aspects of IT solution delivery, strategic planning, and operational excellence. With full-stack development experience, they are responsible for designing and building sophisticated and highly scalable apps preferably using Flutter for frontend and using AWS backend web services. They are responsible for managing the overall health of the technology ecosystem and will manage and oversee design of solutions to meet business needs and support the overall IT Strategy. They provide technical guidance in partnership with Architecture and with cross-organizational input and in accordance with business unit objectives. They are a consultant to business managers, architecture, security and operations teams to drive cross-awareness of business needs and opportunities. They bring innovative solutions to the business line by leveraging their technical expertise. They identify and implement continuous improvement over cost, security, operation, and functionality of the solutions in their domain.



Essential Responsibilities

• Solution Delivery: Lead and support solution lifecycle technical activities. Ensure solutions are designed for great user experience and operational performance. Lead design, ensuring Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations and Compliance aspects are continuously integrated into solutions. Provide input to cost and schedule estimation. Responsible for overall integrity of system design and operation. Oversee vendor activities.


• Relationship Management: Conduct peer reviews and approve system changes and technical solution design. Coach and mentor less experience team members. Partner cross-organizationally to drive minimal costs on optimal solutions. Provide in-depth technical information to stakeholders as needed.


• Strategy & Planning: Innovate through usage of industry emerging capabilities and evolving customer needs. Provide input to strategic roadmap and technical dependencies.


• Subject Matter Expertise: Continuously stay current on, and apply, technical industry knowledge pertaining to the respective domain.


• Operations: Review solution performance, and continually assess health of systems. Track and drive awareness to operational and technical debt risks. Provide escalated support to incident and problem management. Utilize analytics to improve availability, reliability, efficiency and capacity. Oversee vendor activities.

• Design and Build sophisticated and highly scalable apps as a full-stack developer preferably using Flutter for frontend and using AWS backend web services. Experience with other mobile development languages will be considered if willing to learn and develop in Flutter.


• Experience in python/node, graphql/apis, lambdas/serverless, event driven architectures, good sense of data handling.

• Experience with management of AWS technologies capabilities (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.)


• Experience with complimentary automation, container, scripting, orchestration, and testing capabilities (Terraform, Docker, Selenium, Postman)

• Build custom packages in Flutter using the functionalities and APIs already available in native Android and iOS.


• Translate and build the designs and wireframes into high quality responsive UI code.


• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.


• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle, including automated testing and building.


• Experience working in an agile development process.


• Be proficient in using version control and continuous integration, with tools such as GitLab


• Utility industry experience is preferred.