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Kroger Family of Companies Sr. Software Engineer in Blue Ash, Ohio
Kroger is seeking an experienced Java and Spring Boot software engineer to help build a new payments platform.
Responsible for participating in the design, development, testing, debugging, maintaining, and documenting software components in accordance to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices. Establish estimates and work plans for design, development, implementation, and rollout tasks. Communicate with the appropriate teams to ensure that assignments are delivered with the highest of quality and in accordance to standards. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Develop a high-quality codebase, lead design discussions, execute development against design, and navigate complex codebase
Responsible for development implementation of technical design within a defined set of teams. Execute against defined technology roadmap to support project portfolio and business strategy
Participate in implementing enterprise standards across domains: operations, infrastructure, data, applications, development, security & risk, and business continuance
Provide technical clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
Implement high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state solution
Lead the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
Mentor team members in software development principles, patterns, processes and, practices
Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
Bachelors Degree Computer Science or a STEM major
3&43; years of successful and applicable experience taking a lead role in building complex software ad automation systems that has been successfully delivered to customers
3&43; years of proven track record of designing and delivering large scale, highquality systems
3&43; years of successful and applicable handson experience in software or infrastructure development domain and principles, including design patterns and code structure
Strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition
Demonstrated written, oral and presentation/public speaking communication skills
Proven ability to think and contribute at the strategic level
Deep knowledge in a minimum of two of the following technical disciplines: infrastructure and network design, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations
Understanding of network and security architecture
Desired
Any experience in Cloud software service including designing for scale, performance and reliability
Any experience in system architecture
Demonstrated capability to build, mentor and maintain an inclusive teambased environment
Experience building solution using elastic architectures (preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)
Any experience working with payment acceptance or processing
3&43; years of Java and Spring Boot experience
3&43; years of NoSQL experience