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 Senior Software Engineer job, that means you have a...HEART FOR PEOPLE... you can organize multiple engineers, negotiate solutions, and provide upward communicationHEAD FOR BUSINESS... you consistently demonstrate and uphold the standards of coding, infrastructure, and processPASSION FOR RESULTS... you're capable of high-velocity contributions in multiple technical domainsWhat you’ll do at HEB:
- Contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of applications.
- Work closely with engineering, product and design to create the best possible experiences for customers using the HEB website (desktop and mobile).
- Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while applying sound technical judgment that considers technology alternatives, impact on affected / adjacent systems and tradeoffs.
- Provide peer review and quality assurance support to other engineers and receive the same feedback on all code output.
- Grow and be mentored in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies.
- Learn new technologies, frameworks, and systems and share your knowledge with the web team.
- Work with other platforms (iOS, Android, backend engineering) to build out scalable systems that support the HEB infrastructure. Identify and communicate cross-team dependencies.
- Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management.
- Mentor junior developers and teach best practices on architecture and technology decisions.
Do you have what it takes to succeed?
- Desire to build world-class applications using a variety of tools including React, GraphQL (Apollo), AWS, and more.
- Ability to work closely with senior engineering staff, product managers, and design experts to learn about HEB customers and build them quality experiences.
- An interest in refactoring HEB’s existing infrastructure to bring the web and mobile web experience into the digital age.
- Ability to research new technologies with your teammates and make choices that will help direct web development for HEB into the future.
- A desire to grow your expertise in modern web development.
- Bonus technologies: Typescript, Docker, Next.js, modern testing practices, test driven development (TDD).
- 2+ years of web application development experience.
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 are learning development methodologies and processes.
- You have a solid knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- You have experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- You have a solid understanding and interest in data observability.
- You have a team mentality and are unafraid to fail.
- You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field, or equivalent self-study.
- You are working to develop your engineering talents.
- You value team dynamics and work to grow junior engineers.
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