The Lead Software Engineer will design, develop, and architect new and existing systems, act as a technical lead for complex projects, and work collaboratively with various teams. The role includes evaluating new technologies, monitoring application performance, providing technical guidance, and ensuring seamless integration across systems.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who enables business and IT leaders to make informed investment decisions by balancing and prioritizing current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the organization's longer-term strategic vision. This role is pivotal in driving technology solutions that align with business objectives, ensuring seamless integration and innovation within the technology ecosystem
ShyftLabs is a rapidly growing data product company that specializes in creating digital solutions for Fortune 500 companies across various industries. We are looking for a talented and experienced Backend Developer to join our team and help us continue to deliver innovative solutions that help accelerate business growth.
Job Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the design, development and architecture of new and current systems
- Participates in enterprise architecture reviews and provides recommendations and guidance to align the POS systems to optimize Petco IT investments
- Act as technical lead for medium to large complex project/feature enhancement
- Work with the Product Management team, Project Management, Business and User Experience teams to identify and prioritize initiatives and features
- Participate in all grooming and priority setting sessions and accountable for project sizing and estimation
- Evaluates new tools, technologies and processes to improve speed, efficiency and scalability
- Will be responsible for monitoring server and application performance using one or more of Application Performance Monitoring tools: NewRelic, CloudWatch and Sumologic
- Work closely with other development teams across Petco to troubleshoot issues, performance tuning and identify opportunities for seamless integrations across systems
- Works closely with the Production Support team to train, guide and troubleshoot production issues
- Provides coaching and technical guidance for Software Engineers at different levels of experience
- Thrives on working in a fast-paced environment
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional experience in software support at enterprise level
- 1 – 3 years of technical leadership experience
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related IT field
- Extensive hands-on enterprise JAVA application and Spring boot development experience
- In-depth knowledge of retail POS processes, including customer facing (Sales & Returns management, promotion & pricing, membership, loyalty, payment integration etc…) and back-office (Cash Management, Opening & Closing, TLOG processing)
- Extensive experience with PCI & PII security standards
- Extensive knowledge of best practices and IT design and development patterns and standards
- Extensive hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
- Extensive experience troubleshooting issues across a complex IT ecosystem across multiple cross-functional teams
- Experience with Capacitor or similar technologies to build cross-platform native apps
- Experience working with Cloud technology and IaC (AWS experience preferred, and candidates with AWS DevOps or AWS Solution Architecture certifications strongly preferred)
- Experience with Microservice Architecture and Domain Driven Design.
- Extensive experience with Java build, packaging and dependency management and storage systems (such as GitLab, Maven, Gradle, Artifactory)
- Experience developing and tuning MS SQL, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL queries
- Experience with integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (such as Cucumber, Robot, Selenium, JMeter)
- Extensive experience with creating alerts, dashboards, canned queries – as well as configuring and integrating log aggregation (such as SumoLogic, Splunk, ELK, syslog – SumoLogic preferred)
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Kanban or Scrum) and software development lifecycles
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
We are proud to offer a competitive salary alongside a strong insurance package. We pride ourselves on the growth of our employees, offering extensive learning and development resources.
Top Skills
Java
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