Lead Software Engineer (P4072)

84.51° Overview:

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

Powered by cutting edge science, we leverage 1st party retail data from nearly 1 of 2 US households and 2BN+ transactions to fuel a more customer-centric journey utilizing 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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Lead Software Engineer (2024) 

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to design and build software products and features for both internal and external clients. We are a team of innovators, continuously exploring new technologies that ensure 84.51° remains on the cutting edge of application development. In this position, you will be utilizing Java, Spring Boot, JSON, and SQL daily.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Take ownership of stories and drive them to completion through all phases of the entire 84.51° SDLC.  This includes external facing and internal applications as well as process improvement activities such as:

• Participate in design and development of Java, Angular, and Spring Boot based solutions
• Perform unit and integration testing
• Partner with senior resources, gaining insights
• Provide mentoring to junior resources
• Participate in retrospective reviews
• Participate in the estimation process for new work and releases
• Maintaining and enhancing existing applications
• Bring new perspectives to problems
• Be driven to improve yourself and the way things are done

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree desired) typically in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics or another technically strong program.
• Understanding of Agile Principles (Scrum)
• 5+ years of proven professional Java development experience
• Experience with Angular 2+
• Proficient with automated testing (JUnit, Cucumber, etc…)
• Proficient with VCS (Git, SVN)
• Experience using Spring Boot Framework
• Experience with dependency management (Maven, Gradle)
• Experience with performance tuning enterprise applications
• Experience with debugging enterprise applications
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Understanding of CI/CD
• Understanding of Object Oriented Principles
• Understanding SOLID principles

Preferred Skills – Experience in the following

• Scala
• SOA
• Python
• Proficient in SQL
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase)

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