Lead Software Engineer

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