Job Description

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Role Title: Android Engineer- I (L08)

Company Overview:

COMPANY OVERVIEW: Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry\xe2\x80\x99s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

We have recently been ranked #5 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Companies to Work for 2023, #21 under LinkedIn Top Companies in India list, and received Top 25 BFSI recognition from Great Place To Work India. We have been ranked Top 5 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Top 10 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Workplaces for Women in 2022.

We offer 100% Work from Home flexibility for all our Functional employees and provide some of the best-in-class Employee Benefits and Programs catering to work-life balance and overall well-being. In addition to this, we also ave Regional Engagement Hubs across India and a co-working space in Bangalore.

Organizational Overview:

Our engineering organization is made up of software development engineers, quality engineers, solution architects and reliability engineers who develop and support our most mission critical systems. We leverage cutting edge technology to build systems that support over 70MM cardholders and process billions of transactions.

Role Summary/Purpose:

Billions of transactions\xe2\x80\x94and you\xe2\x80\x99ll touch all of them if you join our IT team as an Android Software Engineer - I. Imagine the sheer scale of what we impact every second of every day. Now imagine what you can do with that influence\xe2\x80\x94this is where you can shape the future of payments.

The Android Engineer craves working in a hands-on mobile application coding, design, and architecture environment; will build and support our mobile applications by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence. In short, you would be one of our Android wizards.

You are the right candidate if you\xe2\x80\xa6

Have passion: Sure you can code, but are you passionate about mobile software development?

Have common sense: Building is important, but do you think through designs to ensure they\xe2\x80\x99re the best solutions first?

Are slightly obsessed with pretty code: Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust and scalable?

Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Let\xe2\x80\x99s face it \xe2\x80\x93 technology changes by the minute. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?

Think like a customer: Central to our products is our understanding of our customers\xe2\x80\x99 needs and requirements. Do you consider UX in your decision making, and think like a customer?

Have tech chops: Boasting a Computer Science background is a must

Key Responsibilities:

Develop Android applications using Java/Kotlin as a member of the development team

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement modern technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Adhere to the compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony Financial

Participate in Scaled Agile Train level activities and ceremonies consisting of cross-functional teams

Qualifications/Requirements:

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science with minimum 1+ years of experience with Android application development, or in lieu of a degree 3+ years of experience with Android application development

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

Prior Android development experience

Desire to learn and grow as a strong contributor in the Mobile development space

Familiarity of the Scaled Agile, SAFe model and roles and responsibilities

Familiarity with libraries and frameworks such as Retrofit, Dagger 2 and RxAndroid

Familiarity with continuous integration environments

Familiarity writing unit, integration and UI test cases

Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science with minimum 1+ years of experience with Android application development, or in lieu of a degree 3+ years of experience with Android application development

Work Timings: This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time \xe2\x80\x93 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying
• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday
• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)
• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)
• L5 to L7 Employees who have completed 12 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.
• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.
• L05+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 08

Job Family Group: Information Technology

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