Software Engineer 4

Key Skills

Java Programming, Analytical and Problem solving, Design, Python Programming, MongoDB, SQL, DevOps, Azure, Safety & Quality Management System-SQMS, REST API, Retail , Apache Cassandra, SoapUI, REDIS, J2EE, Spring Boot, Pivotal Tracker

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons is one of the largest retail employers, providing approximately 300,000 jobs across 2,200 stores, 22 distribution centers, 20 food and beverage plants and various support offices. We operate in 34 states and the District of Columbia under the Albertsons banner, as well as Safeway, Tom Thumb, Jewel Osco, Shaw’s and many more recognizable names.

What you will be doing

Albertsons Companies’ IT Digital Customer Experience team has a need for a Software Engineer IV. This role will be an individual contributor responsible for delivering projects that pertain to the Digital Customer Experience and eCommerce/Grocery Delivery business functions. The candidate will work closely with Senior Manager/Director of Digital Customer Experience, and partner with its peer development team members, other cross-functional IT teams, business stakeholders and leadership team distributed across geographical locations including Pleasanton CA, Phoenix, AZ and Manila, Philippines. This position is located in Arlington TX.

Main responsibilities

• Design, construct and implement highly scalable data management systems, across multiple platform types
• Implement and support highly scalable systems to support eCommerce or Digital Customer Experience
• Hands-on engineering responsibilities (build, installation, configuration, upgrades, testing, deployment and performance tuning & optimization). Document the procedures/instructions for other team members to follow.
• Assist in troubleshooting production support issues, and be available as needed
• Investigate and resolve performance issues in a timely manner
• Collaborate with Architecture, eCommerce Engineering and Support, Project Managers and other Business/IT teams in finding solutions to meet business needs
• Identify opportunities and develop scripts to automate the tasks where possible to minimize the manual work and to produce high quality and consistent work.
• Diagnose, isolate and debug problems and performs problem resolution.
• Assess technical risks, provide options, recommendations and strategy to mitigate risks
• Providing guidance and assistance to peers and other team members in related job functions
• Adhere to standard processes and procedures.
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirement are met for supported area

What we are searching for

• 4 year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or related functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
• 5 years of hands-on programming and integration experience (Java, J2EE/Spring, SOAP, REST APIs)
• 2+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is required
• Experience in No-SQL and in-memory DB (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis...) is strongly preferred
• Experience in Microsoft Azure, Pivotal, DevOps and CI/CD tools and processes is strongly preferred
• Experience in high-performance and high-frequency data streaming (using Kafka, Storm etc.) and handling large volume of batch data (using Spark) is strongly preferred
• Experience in the e-commerce domain, with deep understanding of product search and browse, catalog and master data management, pertaining to Retail/Grocery industry is preferred
• Experience in Jira, Confluence is strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of design patterns and best practices.
• Strong emphasis on Testing, Quality and Automation
• Strong ability to decompose a broad level business requirement into technical implementation.
• Ability to mentor and guide development team members.
• Strong organization skills with good interpersonal skills and a customer service oriented attitude.
• Strong experience building consumer facing solutions and building applications on the public cloud
• Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high volume Internet applications
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision making skills
• Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of IT
• Ability to define solutions from very high level business ideas
• Ability to work independently