The Whole Foods Global Distribution and Perishables Systems team (GDPS) is responsible for the technology solutions that support Whole Foods’ meat, seafood, produce, and floral departments. This team is looking for an experienced full-stack Software Development Engineer to help design and execute against 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.
The favored candidate for this role will possess deep experience in the execution and delivery of supply chain technologies, real-time large-scale transactional systems, and operational toolsets. This position will report directly to the Sr. Manager of Global Distribution Perishables Systems and will be located in Austin, TX.

The Senior Software Engineer will:

• Facilitate the design, implementation, and delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable solutions that are strongly aligned with our business and technology roadmap and objectives
• Write code that sets a great example to others and demonstrate best practices while providing insightful code reviews to your teammates
• Help inform and deliver against technical implementation roadmaps, delivery processes and tools, code and release management processes within ambiguous and complex problem spaces
• Provide insightful contributions to priorities and approach, taking lead in identifying and solving bottlenecks at both the software and portfolio level, and able to help influence, positively impacting the technical decisions of major systems integrations
• Communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer, seeking diverse perspectives, adapting to feedback, and being willing to change direction if it creates a better outcome

Role Responsibilities:

The solution areas supported by this role include purchasing, transportation management, warehouse management, dock scheduling, and associated supply chain activities. For these areas, the candidate will:

• Design, develop, and maintain any new development of cloud-based applications built on AWS services and modern UI technologies with a preference for experience with ReactJS
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of custom Java and Web applications in a Linux environment
• Investigate and understand the underlying structure, design, and interrelationship of legacy and future-state software applications in alignment with broader business objectives
• Interact with system users and business partners to answer questions, identify problems, and design solutions
• Analyze business requirements to determine specifications and leverage knowledge of technology strategy to recommend the most appropriate design approach for assigned projects
• Evaluate and integrate 3rd party and Amazon solutions
• Provide accurate development estimates and ensure a high-level of visibility.
• Design and implement the appropriate systems to ensure quality, performance, and stability including unit tests, load, and stress testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and log aggregation
• Design solutions for scalability, maintainability, performance, and integration with other components and systems
• Ongoing education and learning of new programming techniques and technology
• Work collaboratively with your peers to provide and receive thought leadership and mentorship and ensure an environment of continuous improvement and innovation

Role Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience with real-time web applications, hands-on development, design, and architecture, preferably including most of the technologies and domains identified below
• 2+ years’ experience in a senior, strategic technology planning and delivery role
• 2+ years’ experience with large-scale enterprise systems (supply chain, back end, and retail systems experiences are advantageous)
• AWS experience is a strong plus
• Strong technical leadership track record, with proven experience empowering, developing and motivating technical teams
• Experience delivering software solutions using Agile methodologies
• Perishables and supply chain experience preferred
• Computer Science college degree or equivalent experience

Key Technologies/Domains

• Web-based UI tools and frameworks (ReactJS, NodeJS, AWS Amplify, Bootstrap, JSP, jQuery, HTML, CSS)
• AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, Cognito)
• Microservice and REST API technologies (Docker, Spring Boot, Python)
• Enterprise Java Solutions (Tomcat, Hibernate, JMS)
• Source control and build tools (Git, Gradle, Maven, Ant)
• CI/CD & DevOps Tooling
• Purchasing systems (PO’s, invoicing; ERP)
• Distribution systems (Warehouse Management/Inventory)
• Logistics systems (Transportation Management)
• Relational Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, RDS)
• Automated Testing (Selenium, Jest, JUnit)
• Application Performance Management (DataDog)

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.