Lead Software Engineer_Java_Springboot_Mongo_Kafka

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes India

Job Summary

The primary purpose of this role is to provide consultation and technical direction on translating business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs. This includes facilitating the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications. This role serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the implementation and maintenance of business and enterprise software solutions. In addition, this role personally develops and delivers code modules, stable application systems, and integrated enterprise software solutions within various computing environments.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Resolves complex problems spanning multiple applications to drive improvements across portfolios; leads projects with significant business implications, participates in planning and priority estimates, and advises Software Engineers; executes with limited guidance.
• Leads development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable and meet architectural standards.
• Educates others on current architectural standards and guidelines to drive efficiency when leading the design efforts of complex business and enterprise software solutions.
• Supports systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT) for large, complex, cross-functional application initiatives by providing insight to testing teams to ensure the appropriate depth of test coverage.
• Mentors and advises others in all software development lifecycle phases by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
• Communicates changes in software architecture and coaches’ others to apply this understanding to software solutions; resolves escalated issues.
• Leads efforts to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices.
• Solves complex cross-functional architecture/design and business problems; solutions are extensible; works to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.
• Mentors and advises others, sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
  
  

Years Of Experience (Must Have)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in software development or a related field
• 4 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
• 8 years of experience in database technologies
• 8 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
• 8 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization
• 8 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software development environment
• 8 years of experience working with source code control systems
• Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools
• 8 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions.
  
  

Education Qualification & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
  
  

Primary Skills (Must Have)

• Extensive experience on Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Reactor, Webflux, Spring cloud, Microservices, Kafka, MongoDB, Postgres
• Understanding the priorities, scope and OKRs
• Understand the trade-offs in different technical choices
• CI/CD pipeline including Docker, Kubernetes
• Exposure to GCP, Azure or AWS
• Exposure to Retail Domain
• Fault tolerant System Design
• Resiliency, Scalability and Performance engineering
• Application Development Tools
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Exhibit Technology Acumen
• Solve Complex Problems
• Communicate Effectively
• Optimize Work Processes
• Plan and Align
  
  

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.