Senior Software Engineer

H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $25 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 109,000+ Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. As a Senior Software Engineer, you would have a…

HEART FOR PEOPLE… you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams

HEAD FOR BUSINESS… you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software

PASSION FOR RESULTS… the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions

What you'll do (Design & Development)

- Coach and mentor junior engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed
- Contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of applications
- Support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, both diagnose and solve production support issues
- Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while applying sound technical judgment that considers technology alternatives, impact on affected / adjacent systems, and tradeoffs
- Work with Product, Design, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences
- Get the opportunity to stay ahead of new technologies with an eye to evaluating and potentially incorporating them into your team's architecture
- Apply understanding to help improve the cloud infrastructure that powers our high-performance, consumer-scale site and mobile apps
- Lead initiatives, technical design, and delivery of complex features across multiple systems to improve user experiences
- Recommend changes to processes and tools at the team level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
- Diagnose / fix highly complex technical issues independently
- Identify and communicate cross-team dependencies
- Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management; research / advise technical leadership in vendor negotiations
- Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards within assigned team
- Provide end-to-end support to applications

Who You Are

- You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of successful, high-quality results
- You enjoy learning new technologies as they emerge
- You have an advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes
- You have a comprehensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
- You have advanced knowledge of system architecture and design patterns
- You can understand architecture, design, and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems
- You have experience with common software engineering practices such as source control management (i.e., Gitlab), CI/CD pipelines (i.e., Gitlab, Jenkins), infrastructure as code, backlog issue tracking (i.e., JIRA), wiki documentation (i.e., Confluence)
- You have a high level of comfort in Agile development methodologies
- You have a bachelor's degree in computer science or comparable field, or equivalent self-study

Qualifications 

- Extensive backend software engineering experience with Java, Python, C++, or other languages to build services and APIs is required

- Extensive experience with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Security, and other related frameworks

- Extensive experience with relational databases and writing SQL is required

- Frontend software engineering experience with Javascript frameworks/libraries (i.e, Angular) is preferred, but not required

- Working within the Linux environment to include command line and shell scripting experience is required

- Hands on experience utilizing various DevOps techniques to include continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), configuration as code, container first strategies, cloud-native development

- Experience with Cloud Technologies such as AWS, GCP, etc

- Experience working with large datasets and creating integrations to access or share these datasets

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