Senior Software Engineer (Java/Spring Boot) DFW or Austin, TX - H-E-B

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 Senior Java Engineer role, that means you have a...

HEART FOR PEOPLE... you're willing to provide support to junior developers

HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have the skills to effectively deliver code solutions / features

PASSION FOR RESULTS... you can produce quality results with little direct supervision

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
• Mentor and provide support to junior developers
• 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 experience with Java and Spring Boot
• You have experience with Microservices and Cloud computing such as AWS or GCP 
• You have 10+ years of application development experience
• You have experience with microservice architecture
• 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 CS 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 tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• You have a high level of comfort in Lean Startup or Agile development methodologies
• You're familiar with build and release procedures and tools (GitLab CI/CD, certificates)
• You have a related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• You have experience containerizing applications
• You have advanced knowledge in data architecture, data modeling, database operations/efficiency/tuning and SQL.

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 $26 billion
• 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

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