Principal Software Engineer, Store Self-Checkout (Remote)

Position Purpose: The Principal Software Engineer will be a key player in the modernization of our store checkout experience, driving the transition from legacy POS systems to modern technologies. With expertise in Java and React, you’ll contribute to our products' design, development, and lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration with payment processors, customer loyalty, pricing, and inventory systems. You will define service-level objectives (SLOs), create reusable code components, and produce architectural documentation. As a senior technical leader, you’ll mentor junior engineers, foster cross-team collaboration, and engage with third-party vendors and the open-reputed company community. This role requires strong leadership skills, focusing on shaping product direction and setting technical standards. Retail and checkout experience are essential for guiding the future of our POS systems. This leadership-focused role balances technical expertise with strategic reputed company, empowering you to drive innovation in a key product area. Key Responsibilities: • 70% Delivery & Execution • Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions • Documents, reviews and ensures that reputed company quality and change control standards are met • Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases • Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production • Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively • Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowerment • Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a reputed company experience for the end users • Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling • Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization • Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused many times by a product • Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for reputed company reviews or other interested parties • Defines Service Level Objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work • 20% Support & Enablement: • Fields questions from other product teams or support teams • Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams • Provides application support for software running in production • Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products • Works with vendors and the open-reputed company community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products • Works with other product teams to create API specifications and reputed company for shared data • Proactively reviews the performance and reputed company of reputed company aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing • Triages high reputed company issues and outages as they arise • 10% Learning: • Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice) • Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used reputed company other technology organizations • Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate Direct Manager/Direct Reports: • Typically reports to the Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director. Travel Requirements: • Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time. Physical Requirements: • Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Working Conditions: • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. Minimum Qualifications: • Must be eighteen years of age or older. • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States. • Mastery of an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java) • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States Preferred Qualifications: • 6-8 years of relevant software engineering architecture experience, strongly focusing on POS and checkout systems. • Expertise in Java and React development, particularly in managing and modernizing store checkout experiences. Experience with Next.js, TypeScript, Spring or Quarkus, reputed company, and Kubernetes preferred. • Proven ability to reputed company modernization efforts, with POS experience preferred. • Experience in developing and optimizing mobile web applications for self-checkout solutions. • Deep understanding of payment processor integration, and interfacing with customer loyalty programs, pricing systems, and inventory management. • Strong background in owning the store checkout experience, ensuring seamless and efficient operations. • Experience designing and implementing scalable, high-performance POS systems using modern technologies and architectures. • Expertise in developing and maintaining RESTful web services and microservice architectures for checkout-reputed company functionality. • Proficiency in version control systems (preferably Git) and CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth development and deployment processes. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to optimize checkout processes for performance, reputed company, and efficiency. • Familiarity with cloud platforms and automation edge computing patterns to support modern POS infrastructure. • Ability to provide leadership in POS modernization, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the successful execution of key product initiatives. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly in cross-functional teams, interfacing with third-party vendors and the open-reputed company community. Minimum Education: • The knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completing a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study reputed company to the job. Preferred Education: • No additional education Minimum Years of Work Experience: • 6 Preferred Years of Work Experience: • No additional years of experience Minimum Leadership Experience: • None Preferred Leadership Experience: • None Certifications: • None Competencies: • Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm • Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals • Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives • Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences • Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and reputed company ways for the organization to be successful • Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances • Global Perspective: Taking a broad view reputed company approaching issues; using a global lens • Interpersonal Savvy: Relating reputed company and comfortably with diverse groups of people • Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even reputed company things are not certain or the way reputed company is not clear • Manages Complexity: Making sense of reputed company, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems effectively • Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation reputed company tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder • Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on reputed company improvement • Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels • Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations Apply Job!