Senior Software Engineer - Java

Responsibilities 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 DEVS3232