Senior Software Engineer-People Ops

Responsibilities

Since H-E-B Digital Technology’s inception, we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, make food decisions, and ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital—we’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will specifically focus on building, modernizing, and scaling critical enterprise applications within our Human Resources, Benefits, and Payroll ecosystems. You will leverage Java, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and modern relational databases to ensure accurate, performant, and secure processing of complex payroll and employee benefits transactions.

Once you’re eligible, you’ll become an Owner in the company, so we’re looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. “Partner-owned” means our most important resources—People—drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.

Do you have a:

HEART FOR PEOPLE… you’re willing to facilitate solutions with multiple engineers, provide upward communication, and mentor others?

HEAD FOR BUSINESS… you consistently demonstrate and uphold the standards of coding, infrastructure, and process?

PASSION FOR RESULTS… you’re capable of high-velocity contributions in multiple technical domains?

We are looking for:

5+ years of experience related to software engineering

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Works on technology projects / tasks with limited or no guidance
• Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors.
• Creating, configuring, and supporting build and deployment pipelines.
• Build robust backend logic in Java and integrate seamlessly with modern frontend frameworks, to provide clean and intuitive user interfaces.
• Leads others in coding / configuration / maintaining / testing / debugging existing or new systems; delivers quality features and bug fixes that align with our development process
• Capable of leading team on effective production support or on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting highly complex issues within team services. Able to identify a path to resolution for most issues for team services.
• Demonstrates ownership of team services and influences the team. Starts to learn how to influence across teams. Fosters growth environment through mentorship and open collaboration with peers.
• Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools at the team level aligned with the organization and company goals.
• Reviews epics critically and ensures dependencies are identified, they're appropriately broken down and prioritized, and well understood by the team and stakeholders.
• Drives priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning for their work before they require escalation. Ensures expectations within their team are clarified between all parties involved.
• Leads team ceremonies and larger team efforts.
• Drives improvements within assigned team.
• Expert knowledge in their area of focus and mentors' others
• Fosters a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within their team and with their team's business stakeholders.
• Leads root cause analysis and establishing action items for the RCA.
• Learns to work with other teams to resolve issues involving dependent services. Identifies and communicates cross-team dependencies.
• Ensures system monitoring for team services is effective and adheres to best practices.

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job-related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

Work Experience:

• Experience with designing, deploying, and managing services on GCP (e.g. GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL)
• Experience building or integrating frontend components using Angular (TypeScript) to connect with enterprise Restful APIs.
• Strong, proven expertise in writing, optimizing, and scaling complex database structures using PostgreSQL.
• Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)
• Experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture and design patterns
• Advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes
• Proficient at analyzing memory and performance issues using profiling tools.
• High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth
• Adjust - Leverages Agile metrics to improve team performance and deliverables. Evaluates and adjusts resources, self, and team as necessary.
• Collaborate - Ability to work on tasks which span multiple domains, requiring cross-team collaboration, which have a high impact on your project.
• Agility - Embraces risk, change, and helps team manage ambiguity within the team's scope of work.
• Able to drive progress without having a complete picture and can articulate potential tradeoffs and prioritize when faced with ambiguity.
• Connect - Delivers clear, concise, effective messages across different levels; can tailor communication based on intended audience.
• Growth Mindset - Fosters a culture of mentoring and coaching across multiple technical teams and other stakeholders.
• Relate - Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively with inquisitiveness, and use contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations.

Education:

• A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:

• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
• Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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