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.
As a Staff Software Engineer-Mobile/Full Stack, you'll provide end-to-end support to applications and identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes. You'll make recommendations on overall application system designs, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.
Do you have a:
HEART FOR PEOPLE… skills to serve as technical authority and coordinate work for a group of engineers?
HEAD FOR BUSINESS… expertise to make sound, mature technical judgments that result in significant impact?
PASSION FOR RESULTS… drive to deliver sweeping technical initiatives?
What is your background?
A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
7+ years of experience in full-stack software development
Expert in in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks
Expert knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns
Ability to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential
Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)
Expert‑level proficiency in full‑stack engineering, with deep experience in:
Mastery of computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, system design, distributed systems.
Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and CI/CD pipelines.
Demonstrated experience delivering production mobile apps, including App Store and Google Play lifecycles.
Experience writing robust test suites: Jest, RTL, Playwright, PyTest, Locust, XCTest, Espresso.
Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP), containerized services, and microservice architectures
What is the work?
Area of Focus
Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals. Expert on team services and knowledgeable about adjacent services. Influences other teams
Sets goals and standards within team and influences within the organization. May own initiatives that span multiple teams. Proactively seeks out opportunities to help others grow
Work Breakdown
Reviews epics critically and ensures they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized with crossteam dependencies identified
Ensures cross-team dependencies are identified and well understood by all teams involved and other relevant stakeholders and properly planned for
Works across teams to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy
Helps teams balance innovation, platform debt, and delivery urgency.
Dealing with Ambiguity
Owns risk, change, and uncertainty across multiple teams
Ability to proactively identify ambiguity and drive teams towards mitigating potential issues
Considers how ambiguity in their team’s work might affect, or be affected by, the work of other teams Works on technology projects / tasks with no guidance
Reliability and Accountability
Manages cross- team commitments, their progress, and roadmap to delivery. Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning across teams, before they require escalation.
Ensures expectations across teams and stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved
Architecture, Coding and Testing
Understands the architecture, design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services
Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors
Understands adjacent domains and the design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services as they affect their team
Expert understanding of software design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance and capable of architecting and designing at the portfolio, domain, or end-to-end solution level
Introduces new technologies that have ROI / influence. Stays ahead of technology trends and evolution with an eye to long term sustainability and growth of existing and new systems / services
Supports engineers in optimizing product- ready code
Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software
Able to lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams
Aligns teams toward simple, effective designs
Application Support and Health
Leads production support, on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting of issues impacting multiple teams and services
Drives adoption of system health based on site reliability engineering best practices
Enacts changes to team monitoring practices that improve system and team health
Effective Communication and Knowledge Sharing
Creates documentation and training related to technology stacks, standards, and systems / services across multiple teams
Provides constructive criticism to stakeholders across the organization
Ensures decisions are communicated clearly to technical and non‑technical partners.
Teamwork and Collaboration
Helps to break down barriers across teams Looks for opportunities to share learnings and learn from others
Seeks to improve communication and collaboration between teams by building relationships and finding common ground
Fosters shared ownership across teams.
Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Staff Software Engineer?
Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools across teams at the group / department level based on industry standards, patterns, and best practices
Approaches problem-solving holistically and considers solutions through a combination of technology and process
Identifies best approach to improve technical solutions to complex problems and effectively proposes paths forward to drive outcomes
Capable of leading large initiatives with multiple engineers including design, architecture, and delivery of multiple complex features across multiple systems / services
Can you...
Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed
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