Whole Foods Market has embarked on transformational Supply Chain and Merchandising initiatives that will deliver market leading capabilities. The Principal Software Development Engineer will work alongside Agile Development teams to develop and enhance software solutions across various product releases. In this role, you will be responsible for creating scalable technical designs and code for complex internally developed Supply Chain and Merchandising applications, servicing users across various roles and responsibilities. You will coach and mentor other team members while working closely with peers and business partners to increase the efficacy and performance of our software solutions.

Our tech stack is .NET, C#, Java, React, Angular, AWS, Container technologies, and more. Position will be located in Austin, TX (relocation allowance provided) with up to 10% time spent traveling to software partner, regional offices and/or store locations. This role is 80% coding to 20% architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set, promote and execute the technical vision, strategy and delivery of multiple complex and high-priority projects that directly impact the systems and business strategies of Whole Foods and Amazon
• Drive the architecture and design of large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools and services using object-oriented design and distributed programming
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions that demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture and engineering best practices
• Assist in the career development of others by actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical areas, and helping team leaders guide the career growth of their team members
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams to increase their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience

Education & Experience

• 7+ years of relevant and broad engineering experience
• 7+ years of experience working with popular enterprise programming languages such as .NET, C# and/or Java
• 7+ years of design, architecture or consulting experience building distributed applications
• 2+ years of experience with AWS including ECS, EKS, EC2, S3 and CloudFormation
• 2+ years of experience leading the development lifecycle
• Proven deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs and engineering for high availability
• Experience building APIs, containerized microservices with orchestration patterns, serverless functions, and contributing to modern event-driven architecture
• Bachelors (BS) or Masters (MS) STEM degree or equivalent experience

Skills

• Experience building web UI applications, including usage of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as Angular/React
• Experience with SAFe/scaled Agile patterns and practices
• Experience with modern data storage mechanisms, including working with both relational and document databases where applicable
• Experience building systems with strong instrumentation, monitoring and alerting
• Experience and subject matter expertise related to building enterprise-grade retail platforms
• Experience working in and leading DevOps-enabled teams with a strong focus on automation, continuous delivery and deployment, and supporting technologies
• Experience delivering highly secure systems working with and sensitive PII and GDPR data

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.