What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Technical Architect - LinOS position at Lineage?
Drive Innovation. Build Scalable Solutions. Transform Logistics.
At Lineage, we are redefining temperature-controlled logistics, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, and transform the global food supply chain. Our unwavering commitment to innovation has earned us recognition on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and CNBC’s Disruptor 50, establishing us as an international leader in supply chain optimization.
The LinOS Engineering team is at the forefront of this evolution, driving forward cutting-edge solutions that reimagine industry standards.
About LinOS
LinOS is Lineage’s Industrial Operating System, a cutting-edge platform integrating warehouse management, warehouse control, and automation to ultimately optimize operations across our 400 global warehouses.
This platform is composed of several, tightly integrated applications, including a proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), a proprietary warehouse control system (WCS), a collection of next-generation mobile and web applications, an array of advanced decision-making algorithms, and an API/coordination layer to ensure that all these components can communicate and coordinate effectively.
The result is LinOS—a system-directed warehouse execution system that is intended to improve the efficiency and productivity of our warehouse operations.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect responsible for designing the cross-system interactions of the LinOS subsystems and for guiding and improving the overall technical excellence of the LinOS system. As the Architect, you are at the forefront of LinOS development, dividing work between each subsystems' teams and figuring out how to best leverage our substantial investment in Data Science. Our Data Science team's motto is "our math feeds the world." Your job is to turn the warehouse into a math problem, to provide the platform for their optimizations.
Design API Interactions for New Functionality
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.
At Lineage, we are redefining temperature-controlled logistics, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, and transform the global food supply chain. Our unwavering commitment to innovation has earned us recognition on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and CNBC’s Disruptor 50, establishing us as an international leader in supply chain optimization.
The LinOS Engineering team is at the forefront of this evolution, driving forward cutting-edge solutions that reimagine industry standards.
About LinOS
LinOS is Lineage’s Industrial Operating System, a cutting-edge platform integrating warehouse management, warehouse control, and automation to ultimately optimize operations across our 400 global warehouses.
This platform is composed of several, tightly integrated applications, including a proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), a proprietary warehouse control system (WCS), a collection of next-generation mobile and web applications, an array of advanced decision-making algorithms, and an API/coordination layer to ensure that all these components can communicate and coordinate effectively.
The result is LinOS—a system-directed warehouse execution system that is intended to improve the efficiency and productivity of our warehouse operations.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect responsible for designing the cross-system interactions of the LinOS subsystems and for guiding and improving the overall technical excellence of the LinOS system. As the Architect, you are at the forefront of LinOS development, dividing work between each subsystems' teams and figuring out how to best leverage our substantial investment in Data Science. Our Data Science team's motto is "our math feeds the world." Your job is to turn the warehouse into a math problem, to provide the platform for their optimizations.
Design API Interactions for New Functionality
- Participate in design sessions for new warehouse functionality, understanding not just the "what" but the "why" of the new feature.
- Understand the responsibility of each LinOS subsystem, so that you can divide new functionality between them and design the necessary cross-system interactions.
- Collaborate with the leads of each LinOS subsystem to refine the new cross-system interactions.
- Communicate the new functionality and interactions to the development teams via documentation and training sessions, so that they understand the role of their subsystem in the new behavior and can implement it effectively and efficiently.
- Understand and improve LinOS's cross-system monitoring and telemetry capabilities.
- Identify system bottlenecks and spearhead work to improve overall system performance.
- Be the "last expert" to diagnose system issues, called in for the most important or difficult-to-diagnose problems.
- Serve as a resource for teams and individuals with questions about how LinOS operates.
- Develop documentation and training for new team members to come up-to-speed on LinOS.
- 8 years of software engineering experience.
- Proven experience developing large-scale, cross-system API interactions.
- Strong technical architecture and software design experience.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work diplomatically with different teams to find a common solution.
- Experience working with geographically dispersed engineering teams.
- Experience in multiple software ecosystems, especially JVM, node.js and React Native.
- Familiarity with cloud-based, highly-scalable architectures.
- Familiarity with technologies used to define and document API specifications (OpenAPI etc).
- Experience with medium-to-large enterprise relational databases.
- Strong cross-system troubleshooting abilities.
- Familiarity with modern development methodologies (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps best practices).
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.