• Senior Software Engineer

    Hy-Vee Food Stores (Grimes, IA)


    Additional Considerations (if any):

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    At Hy-Vee our people are our strength. We promise “a helpful smile in every aisle” and those smiles can only come from a workforce that is fully engaged and committed to supporting our customers and each other.

    Job Description:

    Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

     

    Department: Information Technology

     

    FLSA: Exempt

    General Function:

    A proficient, independent contributor that assists in technical design, development, implementation, and support of applications; beginning to invest in less-experienced engineers.

     

    The MDM team is seeking an engineer with strong knowledge or experience in back-end software engineering. The focus is on abstracting core domains via API driven services. Experience with Google Cloud Platform, CI (continuous integration), and relational databases is helpful.

    The MDM team exists to create uniformity across the enterprise in the following domains:

    + Customer

    + Item

    + Location

     

    Future initiatives involve integration with Hy-Vee's ERP system (vendor: SAP).

    Core Competencies:

    + Partnerships

    + Growth mindset

    + Results oriented

    + Customer focused

    + Professionalism

    Reporting Relations:

    Accountable and Reports To: TBD

     

    Positions that Report to you: TBD

    Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

    + Understand and apply foundational organization and industry engineering principles and core competencies; identify opportunities to improve.

    + Implement tasks of moderate scope with mostly defined specifications sometimes aided by direction or guidance from more experienced engineers. Demonstrate consistency, dependability, and confidence in work delivered.

    + Understand team's product, domain, and vision and how it fits into the overall business.

    + Understand team practices and processes and beings to discuss improvements with the team.

    + Willingly enter areas of ambiguity and unfamiliarity, often assisted by more experienced engineers when needed.

    + Manage risk by trying to unblock themselves first before seeking help. Can sometimes spot potential problems before they become problems. Start to evaluate possible solutions by factoring in implications of each option.

    + Begin to identify tech debt. Start to identify opportunities to improve, and sometimes make recommendations on how to implement.

    + Desire to grow as an individual through continuously learning new techniques.

    + Experience working within an environment that has a continuous delivery mindset.

    + Identify opportunities to improve the process.

    + Strong understanding of the importance of security.

    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Worker Characteristics:

    + Desire to grow as an individual through continuously learning new techniques.

    + Experience creating, contributing to, and enhancing an environment with a continuous delivery mindset.

    + Multiple years of experience developing and creating applications.

    + Understands the importance of security and voices concerns and questions.

    + Ability to learn new domains quickly.

    + Resourceful, detail-oriented, and highly organized problem solver.

    + Drives a positive culture of innovation and continuous learning.

    + Fosters a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within their team; actively demonstrates these behaviors.

    Experience and Education:

    Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, or Mathematics preferred, or relevant experience. The ideal applicant will have 5 or more years of experience in Software Engineering preferred. The ideal applicant will preferably have 5 or more years of experience with the following:

     

    + Docker

    + Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    + JavaScript

    + .NET (C#)

    + Python

    + Ruby

    + SQL (MSSQL & PostgreSQL)

    Supervisory Responsibilities (Direct Reports):

    None

    Physical Requirements:

    + Visual requirements include: ability to see detail at near range with or without correction.

    + Must be physically able to perform sedentary work: operating a computer, occasionally lifting or carrying objects of no more than 10 pounds, and occasionally standing or walking.

    + Must be able to perform the following physical activities: meeting with customers, kneeling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

    Working Conditions:

    The duties for this position are performed in a general or remote office setting. There is weekly pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks in a day.

    Equipment Used to Perform Job:

    Laptop and desktop computer, telephone, copier, Fax, printer, PC with Microsoft Office programs and other software relevant to specific position.

    Financial Responsibility:

    None

    Contacts:

    Has frequent contact with office personnel in other departments related to the position as well as occasional contact with users and customers.

    Confidentiality:

    Has access to confidential information.

     

    Are you ready to smile, apply today.

     

    Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre employment drug screen.