H-E-B

Responsibilities

Since H-E-B Digital Technology's inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital--we're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. If you enjoy taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Staff Software Engineer, Point-of-Sale job, that means you have a...

HEART FOR PEOPLE... you can serve as technical authority and coordinate work for a group of engineers

HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you make sound, mature technical judgments that result in significant impact

PASSION FOR RESULTS... you can deliver sweeping technical initiatives with minimal guidance

What you'll do (Design & Development)

• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their requirement
• Design software architectures that meet scalability, maintainability, and reliability standards 
• Coach and mentor other engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed
• Provide technical guidance and support to team members and other stakeholders
• Make recommendations for overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
• 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 considering technology alternatives and all impacts / tradeoffs
• Work closely 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; introduce new technologies that have ROI / influence
• Apply understanding to constantly improve the cloud infrastructure that powers our high-performance, consumer-scale site and mobile apps
• Lead large initiatives within the team, including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences
• Influence others in technical decision-making / technology adoption within their domain
• Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues independently
• Develop technical roadmaps and lead engineers across one or more squads to deliver initiatives
• Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities
• Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes
• Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards
• Operate with minimal direction to drive large-scale initiatives
• Provide end-to-end support to applications
• Lead or participate in meetings or workshops discussing project requirements, specifications, and other aspects of the development process
• Develop and implement internal standards and best practices within your organization, including providing training and support to other team members on how to implement these standards effectively. 

Who You Are

• You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software
• You have skills in multiple languages, technologies, and frameworks and can quickly on-board to projects in minimal time
• You're capable of learning new technologies, processes, or business quickly and effectively
• You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and process
• You have an expert understanding of development methodologies and processes
• You understand cross-tech stacks and scalability and reliability implications
• You can coordinate work for a group of engineers on major initiatives
• You have expert knowledge of system architecture and design patterns
• You can create a detailed blueprint of the software system that addresses scalability, maintainability, and security concerns
• You can create a design that is modular, reusable, and easy to maintain, ensuring that the design is scalable to handle future growht and is secure to protect against attacks
• You should be knowledgeable about software security best practices to identify and mitigate potential security risks and vulnerabilities in software systems
• You should be experienced in developing and deploying software on cloud platforms
• You have deep knowledge about multiple technologies, including technology used at H-E-B
• You know the compliance requirements of different projects and applications and can ensure that the development process and software produced meet those requirements.
• You have at least 3+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer, or comparable experience
• You have a related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• You have expert knowledge in technologies such as Golang, Java Spring Boot, OR C/C++, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• You have 7+ years of application development experience

Who We Are

• 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 $26B
• We hire talented people (116,000+ Partners), and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business
• We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter
• We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs
• We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day
• Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company

10-2019

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