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, PoS Platform 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)
- Develop technical roadmaps and lead engineers across one or more squads to deliver initiatives
- Make recommendations for overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Operate with minimal direction to drive large-scale initiatives
- Provide end-to-end support to applications
- Lead large initiatives across one or more squads including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences
- 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
- Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes
- Coach and mentor other engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed
- Apply understanding to constantly improve the edge and cloud infrastructure that powers our world-class point of sale, fuel, and electronic payment systems
- Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards
- Work closely with Security, Network, Infrastructure, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences
- Work closely with non-technical stakeholders to understand system requirements and design features to meet their needs
- Work closely with external partners and technical vendors to design integrated hardware and software solutions
- Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
- Influence others in technical decision-making / technology adoption within their domain
- Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues independently
- Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities
- 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
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 have expert knowledge in C or C++ programming languages
- You’re familiar with build and release processes for edge systems and have expert knowledge using a variety of tooling including Docker and Kubernetes
- You have expert knowledge of large-scale, distributed system architecture and design patterns and are familiar with microservices architecture
- You have experience working on large-scale, distributed systems and may have experience working on legacy code migrations
- You have experience working on production support
- You're capable and interested in 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 can coordinate work with vendors, external partners, and non-technical stakeholders
- You can coordinate the work for a global team
- You have worked on hardware/software integrations
- You have deep knowledge about multiple technologies, including technology used at H-E-B
- 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
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 CompanyDEVS3232#LI-KN1
