Job Description

The Lead Software Engineer will have a unique opportunity to utilize Flutter as a cross-platform language to build large mobile applications and experiences in support of our theme parks. This role will work with our mobile team to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications that will be leveraged across our parks and venues around the world. The Lead Software Engineer will work closely with other app development and technical teams. The role will provide highly specialized skills and knowledge that will enable the successful design, code, and delivery of complex solutions for Digital Technology in support of business requirements. This includes writing, coding, testing, analyzing, and supporting complex codebases along with configuration management of new Flutter applications. The Lead Software Engineer will also research, design, document, and modify Flutter specifications throughout the life cycle of our applications.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design & Development - Where applicable, architect, design/develop, and oversee implementation of mobile solutions. Be a mobile domain expert for development teams as part of implementation. Influence strategic direction and deliver the ‘art of the possible’ for improvements and/or alternatives. Review and provide guidance on new and existing solutions designed and delivered by Architects with an eye for compliance, industry standards and mobile best practices. Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate with Project Managers, vendors and IT stakeholders to provision estimates and develop overall implementation plan for installation, customization, and integration efforts.
• Strategy & Planning - Act as a strategist for the mobile domain. Assist, design and implement long-term strategic goals for mobile technologies and capabilities. Provide mobile expertise, and direction to delivery teams, DevOps engineers, and architects. Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility. Provide technical assessments for new work efforts. Lead creation and documentation of formalized mobile development methodologies. Build and maintain repository for deliverables.
• Technical Collaboration - Confer with delivery teams, product team, or management to refine business requirements and collaborate on technical designs and resolve technical issues. Participate and actively engage with other developers, architects, and domain experts.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related subject.

EXPERIENCE:

• 7+ years of software experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with business requirements gathering/analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into practical applications and operational solutions.
• A solid background in software development with the ability to be a hands-on coder and knowledge of APIs and SDKs.
• Proven experience in system design and development.
• Strong understanding of information processing principles and practices.
• Strong knowledge of software evaluation principles and practices.
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
• Expert knowledge of mobile languages and design patterns including but not limited to Flutter, Dart, MVC, and MVVM.
• Strong knowledge of Flutter’s plugin ecosystem, BLoC,CMS Driven Widget Design, Atomic Design, Widget Trees, and other Flutter UI concepts.
• Proficient with Git, Git flow and other branching strategies.
• Proficiency in multi-threading.
• Experience mentoring a team of other engineers.
• Experience with pull requests and performing code reviews.
• Experience with RESTful APIs using JSON.
• Experience designing application architecture.
• Experience creating frameworks and integrating external SDK’s.
• Experience with localization within a Flutter application.
• Experience working on a development team that practices Agile/scrum methodologies.
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools.
• Solid architecture, analytic, design and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to understand and maintain existing complex codebases.
• Passionate about mobile technologies and building great guest experiences.
• Aptitude to work as change agent that believes in a continuous improvement approach.
• Comprehensive understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), continuous integration, agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Strong experience in mobile architecture documentation skills.
• Excellence in communication with the ability to communicate complicated technical design ideas to a range of people from developers to executives.
• Strong experience with reverse proxies, web servers, API gateways, service-oriented architectures, web services (REST), microservice patterns, service buses and integration patterns, security practices, database technologies;
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Experience leading global enterprise engineering projects or teams is a plus. A self-starter with the ability to manage a broad workload and accommodate change with a proven ability to deliver results.

The Lead Software Engineer will understand vision, communicate possibilities of technology solutions along with roadmaps to achieving the results. The Lead Software Engineer will work closely with application owners and solution architects to design integrations with a focus on security, performance, reliability, reusability, scalability, and maintainability. The Lead Software Engineer will also build an in-depth technical knowledge of Universal’s global portfolio of systems and platforms and act as a subject matter expert for architects, delivery teams and support teams. The Lead Software Engineer will be a subject matter expert across mobile platforms and will influence the technical direction the mobile organization is driving to and will possess excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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