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Sysco Sr Software Engineer in HOUSTON, Texas
JOB SUMMARY
Drives effective delivery of product/platform needs through developing high quality software and technical solutions. Fluent across the full stack and coaches junior developers to promote a flexible mindset and develop technical competence
RESPONSIBILITIES
Leverages strong understanding of business to develop high quality code to meet product/platform requirements
Drives and leads adoption of architecture standards and development practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis etc.
Writes effective technical user stories and ensures that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions
Actively resolves defects and manages technical debt
Develops unit tests to ensure good coverage and regression testing ability
Assists in the development of automated tests and environment management scripts
Practices DevOps methods like CI/CD, SDLC automation and proactive monitoring/telemetry
Participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and resolve impediments
Evaluates emerging technologies continually to identify opportunities, trends and best practices to strengthen Sysco’s development practices
May play a supervisory role toward junior technical resources as they commit to and deliver work
MANDATORY EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree in CS or 4-5 years of relevant developer experience
5-8 years of experience in developing high performance and highly scalable applications in an agile environment, depending on education
Extensive hands-on experience and expertise using modern programming languages and platforms (Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby, Groovy, Salesforce, etc)
5 years in solution design and development experience building cloud-native applications using open-source frameworks like Spring
3 years of experience building & deploying applications on a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP or Azure
3 years of knowledge and experience with REST API design and implementation, and event driven architecture
COMPETENCIES
Understands and implements code quality best practices, and can support others on their team in these practices
Develops effective unit tests and implements integration and end-to-end testing.
Able to support a wide variety of release management processes: planning, scheduling, and controlling software through different phases and environments, including versioning, branching, merging, testing, and deploying software releases
Proficiency with DevOps tools and concepts, including continuous integration, continuous deployment / delivery, configuration and containerization, infrastructure as a code, and monitoring
Possesses skills, experience, and proficiency with Agile practices (e.g. Lean, XP, Scrum, Kanban) and leverages these to improve processes, estimation, etc.
Strong experience building and deploying applications on a cloud platform such as AWS
Researches the answers to questions independently, improves work skills, and identifies key growth areas and topics of interest for the team. Provides learning recommendations to team members that target professional growth. Directly supports team strategies and processes for continuous learning (e.g. feedback processes, team development efforts)
Directly communicates with key business and technical stakeholders across multiple channels: meetings and discussions, demos and presentations, written communication, etc. s
Works and collaborates effectively within a product team and connects with other teams and team members in and outside of the product family as needed.
AWS/Azure/GCP Certified Developer and DevOps Engineer is a big plus
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT:
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law. This opportunity is available through Sysco Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates.