Lead Developer (Remote)

The Company is making a significant investment in its multibillion-dollar digital platform to drive growth in its range of B2B products & services.  As a lead software engineer in the digital organization, you will be creating the Company’s next-generation of technology, leveraging the full-stack of Public Cloud services, building, and running micro-services in a containerized / Kubernetes environment.  If you love to build and are passionate about creating a truly exceptional customer experience, we are looking for you!

The role of Lead Developer is to design, build and maintain high quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience.  Working as an integral part of an Agile development team, this role will require close and continuous collaboration with the Product Owner, Business Analysts, and fellow team members to translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs which will be implemented as production-ready application code using Java and/or Golang.  Additionally, this position is responsible for the design and integration of all required Cloud IaaS & PaaS services including compute, database, messaging, object storage etc.

Ideal candidates should have advanced coding skills in Java and/or Golang, preferably with 7-10 years of development experience in one of these or similar language.  Candidates should have at least 3 years’ experience with at least one public Cloud platform along with 2+ years working with containerized applications (i.e. Kubernetes / Docker etc.)

 

Primary Responsibilities:

•  Translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs
•  Design, build and maintain high quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience
•  Ensure application SLAs are met by employing appropriate monitoring and alerting tools as required by each supported application.
•  Guides the development team in overall application technology design activities; leads the identification and definition of key architectures, components and interfaces, design of data model and data/information flows
•  Work with Product Owner to help develop team roadmap, prioritize features, and estimate level of effort
•  Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the Company team

 

Education & Experience:

• Level of Formal Education: Graduate degree preferred
• Area of Study: Computer Science or Engineering discipline preferred
• Years of Experience: 7-10 years of relevant experience
• Type of Experience: Development
• Technical Competencies: 
  •  Java EE and/or Golang
  •  Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Vertx, GraphQL
  •  Git
  •  Public Cloud IaaS & PaaS services (ie. Compute / Database / Messaging / Object Storage)
  • Ability to create unit tests, performance and integration tests (jUnit, jMeter/k6 & Postman/Newman)
  • Kubernetes and/or Docker
  • NoSQL DB (ie. Couchbase / MongoDB / Elastic)
  • RDBMS (ie. MySQL / PostgreSQL / MS SQL Server / Oracle)
  • HTTP / WebSocket / gRPC
  • Linux/Unix basics
• Skills and Abilities: 
  • Natural problem solver
  • Ability to mentally model complex systems
  • Ability to break down complex problems into smaller less complex problems
  • API design experience (advanced HTTP, Swagger, both producing and consuming the service endpoints)
• Other/Preferred: 
  •  Tomcat, Netty, Jetty, JBoss, Nginx a plus
  •  Familiarity with any of the following is a plus: Shell scripting, Python, Nodejs, Oauth, JWT, EKS, GKE, AKS

About The ODP Corporation
The ODP Corporation (NASDAQ:ODP) is a leading provider of products and services through an integrated business-to-business (B2B) distribution platform and omnichannel presence, which includes world-class supply chain and distribution operations, dedicated sales professionals, online presence, and a network of Office Depot and OfficeMax retail stores. Through its operating companies Office Depot, LLC; ODP Business Solutions, LLC; and Veyer, LLC, The ODP Corporation empowers every business, professional, and consumer to achieve more every day.

 

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification and are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified. Other duties may be assigned. 

 

Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule 

The company offers competitive salar