About H-E-B H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $25 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 109,000+ Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.  

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, how they make food decisions, and how they 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. If you enjoy taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.



Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Staff SE Engineer job, that means you have a...

HEART FOR PEOPLE... you can serve as technical authority and coordinate work for a group of engineers

HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you make sound, mature technical judgments that result in significant impact

PASSION FOR RESULTS... you can deliver sweeping technical initiatives with minimal guidance



What you'll do (Design & Development)

- Coach and mentor other engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed

- Make recommendations for overall application system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance

- Support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, both diagnose and solve production support issues

- Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while considering technology alternatives and all impacts / tradeoffs

- Work closely with Product, Design, and QA to deliver world-class digital experiences

- Get the opportunity to stay ahead of new technologies with an eye to evaluating and potentially incorporating them into your team's architecture; introduce new technologies that have ROI / influence

- Apply understanding to constantly improve the cloud infrastructure that powers our high-performance, consumer-scale site and mobile apps

- Lead large initiatives within the team, including technical design / delivery of complex features across multiple systems as H-E-B improves the customer and Partner user experiences

- Recommend changes to processes and tools at the group / dept level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices

- Influence others in technical decision-making / technology adoption within their domain

- Diagnose / troubleshoot extremely complex issues independently

- Develop technical roadmaps and lead engineers across one or more squads to deliver initiatives

- Help grow Digital Engineering by driving execution of organization-wide activities

- Identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes

- Create documentation and training related to technology stacks and standards

- Operate with minimal direction to drive large-scale initiatives

- Provide end-to-end support to applications



Who You Are

- You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software

- You have skills in multiple languages, technologies, and frameworks and can quickly on-board to projects in minimal time

- You're capable of learning new technologies, processes, or business quickly and effectively

- You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and process

- You have an expert understanding of development methodologies and processes

- You understand cross-tech stacks and scalability and reliability implications

- You can coordinate work for a group of engineers on major initiatives

- You have expert knowledge of system architecture and design patterns

- You have deep knowledge about multiple technologies, including technology used at H-E-B

- You have at least 3+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer, or comparable experience

- You have a bachelor's degree in computer science or comparable field, or equivalent self-study



Preferred Experience 

Experience with Python or Golang development

Experience with multiple Python Frameworks

Experience with modern Front End Frameworks (React, Angular, etc) is a bonus

Experience with CI/CD technologies

Experience with Cloud technologies such as GCP/AWS

Experience with Devops technologies

Who We Are

- H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $26B

- We hire talented people (116,000+ Partners), and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business

- We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter

- We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs

- We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day

- Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company