Principal Software Engineer

Sysco

19h

About The Position

This role drives effective delivery of product/platform needs through developing high quality software and technical solutions. The individual is fluent across the full stack and coaches junior developers to promote a flexible mindset and develop technical competence.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on experience and expertise on AS400 RPG, CL, DB2, ILE and SQL (10 years+)
Java technologies and framework like JSP, Jquery, ReactJS, Spring MVC and Spring boot
Knowledge on the AWS cloud platform and Devops tools such as ECS, docker and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge on relational databases and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Aurora
5 years in solution design and development experience building cloud-native applications using open-source frameworks like Spring
4 years of experience building & deploying applications on a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP or Azure
3 years of knowledge and experience with REST API design and implementation, and event driven architecture
Understands and implements code quality best practices, and can support others on their team in these practices
Develops effective unit tests and implements integration and end-to-end testing
Able to support a wide variety of release management processes: planning, scheduling, and controlling software through different phases and environments, including versioning, branching, merging, testing, and deploying software releases
Proficiency with DevOps tools and concepts, including continuous integration, continuous deployment / delivery, configuration and containerization, infrastructure as a code, and monitoring
Possesses skills, experience, and proficiency with Agile practices (e.g. Lean, XP, Scrum, Kanban) and leverages these to improve processes, estimation, etc.
Strong experience building and deploying applications on a cloud platform such as AWS
Researches the answers to questions independently, improves work skills, and identifies key growth areas and topics of interest for the team
Provides learning recommendations to team members that target professional growth
Directly supports team strategies and processes for continuous learning (e.g. feedback processes, team development efforts)
Directly communicates with key business and technical stakeholders across multiple channels: meetings and discussions, demos and presentations, written communication, etc.
Works and collaborates effectively within a product team and connects with other teams and team members in and outside of the product family as needed
Bachelor's degree in related discipline
10+ years of experience

Responsibilities

Drives and leads adoption of architecture standards and development practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis etc.
Writes effective technical user stories and ensures that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions
Actively resolves defects and manages technical debt
Develops unit tests to ensure good coverage and regression testing ability
Assists in the development of automated tests and environment management scripts
Practices DevOps methods like CI/CD, SDLC automation and proactive monitoring/telemetry
Participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and reolve impediments
Evaluates emerging technologies continually to identify opportunities, trends and best practices to strengthen Sysco’s development practices

Benefits

Comprehensive Flexible Benefits including Health and Dental, Health Care Spending and Wellness Accounts
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Life Insurance
Voluntary Optional Insurance
Parental Leave Plan
Company Pension Plan
Group RRSP & TFSA
Employee and Family Assistance
Stock Purchase Plan
Maple Virtual Care
Unlimited on-line learning
Sysco product discounts
Preferred vendor discounts
Associate Resource Groups