Job Description

Overview:The Sr Software Engineering Analyst will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCos value chain. This candidate will support the end-to-end software development experience, and deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process.The candidate in this role will be responsible for architecting and building applications for mobile platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features, provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This candidate will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities. Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain mobile applications using React Native.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Integrate with RESTful APIs and third-party libraries.
• Familiarity with AI tools and platforms, such as: OpenAI (GPT-3/4, Assistants API), Anthropic, or similar LLM providers.
• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context handling, and AI output refinement.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Debug and fix issues, perform unit and integration testing.

• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Proven experience as a React Native Developer (5+ years).
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of mobile development principles and best practices.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Android Studio, Gradle.
• Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX, Zustand).
• 2+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators.
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design
• Knowledge of REST APIs, offline storage, and performance tuning.
• Familiar with version control systems like Git.
• Understanding of deployment and publishing processes for App Store and Google Play.
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

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