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H-E-B, LP is Hiring a Staff (Senior+) Java Backend Engineer (Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, or San Antonio) Near Austin, TX

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H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 420 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $40 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 150,000 Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.   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. About the Team We build the in-store tools that are used by H-E-B Partners to complete complex tasks. Everything for shopping orders, supporting Curbside and even Delivery. Our customers are all internal facing, including the H-E-B Operations Team, eStore, Delivery, Logistics, and Automation (eFC). This team has rapidly grown from in the past year as our business continues to expand. We still have open positions on the team and are planning to continue growing. Curbside and Delivery are critical to our customers. We own all the backend infrastructure and services to support this space. As such, our backend and frontend clients teams are consistently aligned on goals and objectives. Come find out why this opportunity is unlike any other!     What you'll do (Design & Development) - Coach and mentor other engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed - Make recommendations for overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance - Support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, both diagnose and solve production support issues - Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while considering technology alternatives and all impacts / tradeoffs - Work closely with Product, Design, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences - Get the opportunity to stay ahead of new technologies with an eye to evaluating and potentially incorporating them into your team's architecture; introduce new technologies that have ROI / influence - Apply understanding to constantly improve the cloud infrastructure that powers our high-performance, consumer-scale site and mobile apps - Lead large initiatives within the team, including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences - Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices - Influence others in technical decision-making / technology adoption within their domain - Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues independently - Develop technical roadmaps and lead engineers across one or more squads to deliver initiatives - Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities - Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes - Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards - Operate with minimal direction to drive large-scale initiatives - Provide end-to-end support to applications   Do you have what it takes to succeed? - Desire to build world-class applications using a variety of tools including Java, Spring Boot, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker - Ability to work closely with senior engineering staff, product managers, and design experts to learn about HEB customers and build them quality experiences - Ability to grow a stellar team of engineers through interviewing - 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 - 10 years of application development experience and comparable schooling (CS degree, bootcamp diploma)   Who You Are - You have experience with Java and Spring Boot - You have experience with Microservices and Cloud computing such as AWS or GCP  - You have experience with Kubernetes (plus) - You have experience with Docker (plus) - You have 10 years of application development experience - You have experience with microservice architecture - You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software - You have skills in multiple languages, technologies, and frameworks and can quickly on-board to projects in minimal time - You're capable of learning new technologies, processes, or business quickly and effectively - You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and process - You have an expert understanding of development methodologies and processes - You understand cross-tech stacks and scalability and reliability implications - You can coordinate work for a group of engineers on major initiatives - You have expert knowledge of system architecture and design patterns - You have at least 3 years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer, or comparable experience - You have experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc. - You have a high level of comfort in Lean Startup or Agile development methodologies - You're familiar with build and release procedures and tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, certificates and Terraform) DEVS3232 10-2019

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