Lead Software Engineer Point of Sale

Foot Locker is seeking a Lead Engineer with deep technical experience in Oracle Xstore to modernize their POS platform. This role involves leading the design and implementation of enhancements, ensuring compliance, and improving the overall operational excellence of the system.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Oracle Xstore development, enhancements, and lifecycle management—focusing on stability, maintainability, and scalability
• Drive major version upgrades, patching cycles, dependency modernization, and technical debt reduction with structured rollout plans
• Expand and optimize configuration management: store-specific overrides, tenancy handling, global/local variance, and dynamic configuration models
• Architect and implement core services, frameworks, and extension points that other teams can build on
• Implement country‑specific compliance requirements—fiscalization, tax rules, receipt specifications, privacy mandates, and transaction standards
• Work cross-functionally to ensure adherence to local regulations, certification requirements, and retail compliance frameworks
• Improve platform-level resiliency, startup health, and recovery processes
• Enhance and standardize observability across the entire POS landscape—logs, metrics, traces, health checks, dashboards, and alerting
• Champion operational efficiency by designing better troubleshooting tools, diagnostics, self-healing mechanisms, and automated monitoring
• Lead incident response and postmortems, reducing MTTR and improving fleet-wide reliability
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineers across POS teams
• Drive architectural discussions, propose foundational improvements, and establish engineering best practices
• Guide cross-team initiatives and represent the POS Foundation in design reviews, rollout planning, and vendor interactions

Requirements:

• 7+ years engineering experience with strong emphasis on Oracle Xstore (POS and Back Office) including customizations and environment management
• Proven experience performing Xstore upgrades, patching, platform migrations, and architectural modernization
• Deep understanding of retail store POS operations, system flows, configuration frameworks, and store-level constraints
• Strong proficiency in Java (Xstore), RESTful services, integrations, and patterns for large-scale distributed retail systems
• Experience building or evolving observability: logging pipelines, telemetry standards, dashboards, alerting, and health checks
• Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to work cross-functionally with Ops, Security, Infrastructure, and Field teams
• Experience supporting international POS deployments involving fiscalization, tax rules, receipt formats, and local compliance frameworks
• Strong understanding of store networking fundamentals, deployment patterns, and offline/failover strategies
• Exposure to performance tuning, startup optimization, service orchestration, and large-scale rollout management
• Experience with automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for builds, deployments, and diagnostics
• Previous work modernizing legacy retail platforms or designing foundational frameworks