About Albertsons Companies Inc.:
As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.
We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.
Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.
Position Title: Lead Software Engineer
Job Description:
Roles & responsibilities:
- Hands on code writing and doing code reviews
- Evaluates complex user requests, projects, and clarifies objectives and functional requirements for new or modified computer programs
- Designs / develops software solutions and business process solutions based on business needs and requirements using specialized domain knowledge and developed business expertise
- Improves / sustains embedded system software using specialized domain knowledge and developed business expertise
- Conducts and prepares feasibility studies for new applications and/or existing ones and makes decisions within general parameters under little supervisions
- Demonstrates standards to deliver high-quality products and services; models adherence to quality standards for more junior employees
- Focus on quality in all aspects of work; Follows established standards of excellence and also continues to strive on improving them.
- Participates in the hiring process (by submitting referrals, meeting candidates, attending recruiting events, presenting externally, writing blogs)
- Contributes to team activities and collaborates within all teams within/across domains to solve problems.
- Has deeper understanding of quality standards and guides others
Experience Required:
- 6-9 years of experience as a Full Stack developer in Java/Web developement technologies.
- 6+ years of programming experience (OOAD, Java EE, Web Technologies, REST APIs).
- Specialized knowledge with application servers such as such as Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty etc.,
- Specialized knowledge with database technologies - Relational databases (such as Oracle, Azure SQL Server, Postgres SQL) and/or NoSQL (such as MongoDB or Cassandra) databases.
- Specialized knowledge in UI/Web 2.0 Development (JavaScript, CSS, SCSS, HTML5, AJAX, jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS) and working with Git and/or relevant source code repositories.
- Strong expertise in design patterns, with a solid foundation in building scalable and maintainable applications
- Minimum 2+ years of experience with cloud platform services and application development using Microsoft Azure or GCP or AWS.
- Knowledge GitHub Co-Pilot or similar tools.
- Specialized knowledge with the full software development lifecycle.
- Specialized knowledge of automated unit testing with tools like JUnit/TestNG and test automation frameworks such as Selenium/Playwright/Cucumber/Res-Assured/Karate
- Specialized knowledge with software development methodologies (Agile).
- Ability to understand clients/stakeholder expectations and recognize and escalate issues that may affect delivery
- Specialized knowledge in CI/CD (Jenkins or GitHub actions).
- Docker and/or Kubernetes experience is a big plus
Competencies:
- Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect. They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.
- Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal/business ethics.
- Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions
- Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.
- Learning-Focused, finding ways to improvise in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally
- Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work
- Retail Domain Experience is required
- Experienced in mentoring development teams
- Hands-on experience in production environments with an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset
Mandatory Skills Required:
- Java Reactive (Springboot)
- NOSQL DB (MongoDB / Cassandra)
- AngularJS / ReactJS
- Event Streaming (Kafka or similar)
- Automation Testing (Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber)
Additional Skills Required:
- Design Pattern / Solutioning / Problem Solving
- Distributing Computing (Spark / Databricks)
- GraphQL APIs
- GitHub Copilot or similar
- Cloud Platform (Azure / GCP / AWS)
