Principal Developer

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

Do you like building modern digital applications? Do you geek out about cloud services and cloud application architecture? Ever wanted to be part of building and shaping the engineering culture in a product driven, user-centered-design organization? Well, this is your chance. Here at Southern Glazer’s, we are embarking on a bold journey to transform and revolutionize the ways in which digital technology is used in the beverage alcohol industry. We’ve assembled a world class group of product and technology leaders that are bringing this vision to life. To do this we need to build a best-in-class digital technology engineering organization. 

We are building a portfolio of web and mobile applications, as well as modernizing existing applications so that we can deliver software the business needs with speed, while maintaining and strengthening quality and security. To do this, we need you. We need software engineers that think like product managers. We need software engineers that obsess over observability and know how to take advantage of all that modern cloud platform like Azure and AWS have to offer. In short, we need people that are passionate about building high-performing digital experiences, who know what it takes to build products that surprise, delight and improve the lives of users.

The Role

As a Principal Developer, you will play a pivotal role in building and modernizing our web application projects, with a particular focus on creating dynamic, scalable, and responsive applications using React and micro-frontend architectures. You will help lead our web development strategy, advocating for best practices in frontend development, and ensuring our projects align with the latest industry standards and customer expectations.

Primary Responsibilities

Scope and Impact:

• Develop and guide multiple teams in adopting application patterns
• Lead the development and implementation of complex web applications, focusing on high-performance solutions using React and micro-frontend architectures.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the scope and quality of our web platforms and portfolios, ensuring they meet market demands and technological advancements.

Strategic Contribution:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align web application engineering with the overall business strategy, contributing to the roadmap and vision of our digital product portfolios and platforms.
• Advocate for the adoption of micro-frontend architectures to enhance modularity, scalability, and team autonomy in developing and managing sections of our web applications.

Delivery Responsibilities:

• Ensure timely and effective delivery of web applications, from ideation through to deployment and maintenance, adhering to budget, scope, and quality standards.
• Implement "shift-left" practices in the development lifecycle, emphasizing early integration of security, performance optimization, and user experience design.

Leadership Accountabilities:

• Mentor and guide junior developers in React best practices and the principles of micro-frontend architectures, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Lead by example in adopting agile methodologies, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure continuous improvement in processes and outputs.

Minimum Qualificati