Lead Software Engineer @ 84.51 Degrees

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help the Kroger company, consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliated partners create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting edge science, we leverage 1st party retail data from nearly 1 of 2 US households and 2BN+ transactions to fuel a more customer-centric journey utilizing 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

Join us at 84.51°!

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As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design and build software products and features for both internal and external clients. We are a team of innovators, continuously exploring new technologies that ensure 84.51° remains on the cutting edge of application development. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Take ownership of stories and drive them to completion through all phases of the entire 84.51° SDLC.  This includes external facing and internal applications as well as process improvement activities such as:

Participate in design and development of Python based solutions
Perform unit and integration testing
Partner with senior resources, gaining insights
Provide mentoring to junior resources
Participate in retrospective reviews
Participate in the estimation process for new work and releases
Maintaining and enhancing existing applications
Bring new perspectives to problems
Be driven to improve yourself and the way things are done

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree desired) typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program.
Understanding of Agile Principles (Scrum)
5+ years of proven professional Python or Java development experience
Proficient with automated testing 
Proficient with VCS (Git)
Experience with dependency management
Experience with performance tuning enterprise applications
Experience with debugging enterprise applications
Experience with RESTful APIs
Understanding of CI/CD
Understanding of Object Oriented Principles
Understanding SOLID principles

Preferred Skills – Experience in the following

Spark
Kubernetes
Docker
Enterprise Messaging (RabbitMQ, Service Bus, etc)
Azure (ADF, DevOps, etc)
Proficient in SQL