Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Information Technology Department has an opening for a Senior Java Developer for Digital Customer Experience organization. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.

Position Purpose

Albertsons Companies' IT Digital Customer Experience team has a need for a Senior Java Developer. This role will be an individual contributor responsible for delivering projects that pertain to the Digital Customer Experience and eCommerce/Grocery Delivery business functions. The candidate will work closely with the IT Director or Manager of Digital Customer Experience, and partner with its peer development team members, other cross-functional IT teams, business stakeholders and leadership team distributed across geographical locations including Pleasanton CA, Phoenix, AZ and Manila, Philippines.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Design, construct and implement highly scalable data management systems, across multiple platform types.
* Implement and support highly scalable systems to support eCommerce or Digital Customer Experience
* Hands-on engineering responsibilities (build, installation, configuration, upgrades, testing, deployment and performance tuning & optimization). Document the procedures/instructions for other team members to follow.
* Assist in troubleshooting production support issues and be available as needed.
* Investigate and resolve performance issues in a timely manner.
* Collaborate with Architecture, eCommerce Engineering and Support, Project Managers, and other Business/IT teams in finding solutions to meet business needs.
* Identify opportunities and develop scripts to automate the tasks where possible to minimize the manual work and to produce high quality and consistent work.
* Diagnose, isolate and debug problems and performs problem resolution.
* Assess technical risks, provide options, recommendations and strategy to mitigate risks.
* Providing guidance and assistance to peers and other team members in related job functions
* Adhere to standard processes and procedures.
* Assure quality, security and compliance requirement are met for supported area.

Qualifications:

* 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or related functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
* 7+ years of hands-on programming and integration experience (Java, J2EE/Spring, SOAP, REST APIs)
* Significant experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies is required.
* Experience in No-SQL and in-memory DB (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis...) is strongly preferred.
* Experience in Microsoft Azure, Pivotal, DevOps and CI/CD tools and processes is strongly preferred.
* Experience in high-performance and high-frequency data streaming (using Kafka etc.)
* Experience in the e-commerce domain, with deep understanding of cart, checkout, order capture, session management and master data management, pertaining to Retail/Grocery industry is preferred.
* Experience in Jira, Confluence is strongly preferred.
* Experience in web analytics is preferred.
* Strong understanding of design patterns and best practices.
* Strong emphasis on Testing, Quality and Automation
* Strong ability to decompose a broad level business requirement into technical implementation.
* Ability to mentor and guide development team members.
* Strong organization skills with good interpersonal skills and a customer service-oriented attitude.
* Strong experience building consumer facing solutions and building applications on the public cloud.
* Deep knowledge of scalability, security and maintainability of high-volume Internet applications
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
* Ability to communicate and drive highly complex technology solutions to broad audiences within and outside of IT.
* Ability to define solutions from very high-level business ideas.
* Ability to work independently.

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Workday is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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