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.
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What We Do
We provide customized data and analytics consulting services, including automation and software development for a sustainable and intuitive digital transformation.
