Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Python/Java, Azure, Angular) - P3497

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

Join us at 84.51°!

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As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of a cross-functional team, applying your skill, experience and creativity towards building complex and scalable solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative environment, solving exciting problems while leveraging best engineering practices. We work full stack, and the team owns features end-to-end. On our teams, we’re working daily with product, and design to understand the problem and translate learnings into a pragmatic and effective solution. We happily pull in a peer when we need a pair to get through a tough problem or just for a second pair of eyes. We are always balancing new feature development with efforts to continuously improve both our efficiency and our infrastructure.   

Responsibilities: 

• A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity. 
• Experience with sustainable engineering practices such as automated testing (TDD), continuous integration, continuous deployment, and monitoring / alerting. 
• Leading the design and architecture of complex software systems, considering scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software architecture, design decisions, and coding practice.
• Collaborate with product owners to prioritize features and deliverables.
• Strong fundamentals, with overlap across our tech stack (Python, Java, SpringBoot, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, Docker, Azure Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Terraform) 
• A passion for learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members. 
• Experience with performance tuning enterprise applications 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program 
• Minimum 5+ years working in back-end/API software development
• Experience building and shipping multiple large software products using agile methodologies 
• Excellent communication skills - you can effectively work with engineers but at the same time collaborate with product owners and deliver robust cloud-based solutions.

Major Bonus Points for: 

• Experience in Ad Tech/Mar tech industry 
• Experience working on distributed or remote-first teams 
• Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization 
• Experience with DevOps best practices and tools 
• Experience with data processing using PySpark
  
  

Important: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. 

This is a Hybrid position. Candidates must be able to come into the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of each week. We have locations in Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, IL, Deerfield, IL, New York, NY, and Portland, OR.

There are no remote options for this position. 

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