What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer position at Sprouts Farmers Market?
Provide technical leadership across teams within an assigned product or platform domain. Own technical objectives and roadmaps with a timeframe of at least one year, contribute technical input to department planning, and lead major technical initiatives involving detailed analysis, work delegation, and review.
The role reports to our Store Support Office in Phoenix, AZ, with a hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday.
Overview of Responsibilities
- Develop and recommend technical standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures for adoption within the assigned department or business unit.
- Lead major and complex technical initiatives involving numerous or undefined issues that require detailed analysis and coordination across teams.
- Present technical recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders and gain agreement on matters of shared interest.
- Author reference architectures, technical proposals, and reusable software capabilities.
- Lead cross-team initiatives involving event-driven design, streaming, data contracts, identity, access, and auditability.
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to engineers within the job area and review work products for major initiatives.
- Own technical objectives with a timeframe of at least one year and contribute to department or business-unit planning.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of software engineering experience with cross-team technical leadership.
- Advanced knowledge of distributed systems, modern programming languages, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with event-driven and streaming systems such as Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or equivalent.
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience developing architecture documents or requests for comment and leading technical reviews.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, role-based access control, and audit logging.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with agentic AI or large language model orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with multi-cloud strategy, data mesh, data contracts, or chaos engineering.
- Retail or merchandising domain familiarity.
Core Competencies
- Communication
- Customer Focus
- Driving for Results
- Positive Approach
Benefits
In addition to a rewarding career, Sprouts offers a comprehensive program to help support you and your family. These programs include:
- Competitive pay
- Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
- Vacation accrual plan
- Opportunities for career growth
- 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
- Flexible schedules
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
- Company paid life insurance
- Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
Eligibility requirements may apply for the following benefits:
- Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
- Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
- Health Savings Account with company match
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Company paid short-term disability coverage
- Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
- Paid holidays
Get Paid Every Day!
Sprouts Farmers Market offers DailyPay - if you’re hired as an eligible employee, you’ll be able to transfer the money you’ve already earned at no extra cost, and get it the next business day, for free. We offer DailyPay so you don’t have to wait for payday to access the money you’ve already worked for. With DailyPay, you can see how much you’ve made every day and you can transfer your money any time before payday.
You can learn more by visiting https://www.dailypay.com/partners/sprouts-farmers-market/.
Why Sprouts
Grow with us!
If you have a passion for inspiring people and a flair for fresh food, consider applying for a job at Sprouts! With a focus on customer service, our neighborhood grocery stores offer high-quality, farm fresh produce, natural meats, plenty of scoop-your-own bulk goods and much more in a fun, friendly, old-fashioned farmer’s market setting. Come grow your career in healthy living with a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and teams that pride themselves on empowering others along their journey.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.
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