Application Engineer - Java Developer

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets. They are seeking an Application Engineer in Information Technology to provide architectural and leadership oversight for strategic technical solutions, guiding customers from concept to go-live and rollout.

Responsibilities:

• Work with limited supervision to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards
• Creates and executes designs for small sets of new functionalities as part of a software project using Java, Spring Boot, React, or similar
• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques
• Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem with the support of teammates
• Engages with and supports the development team
• On-call responsibilities
• Contributes to technical research on new technologies
• In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community
• Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance, and maintainability
• Open to receive and give constructive feedback
• Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related degree
• At least 5 years of application development experience
• Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar)
• Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others
• Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar
• Knowledge of microservices architecture
• Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications
• Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences
• Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful
• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience
• Solid experience with full SDLC – requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies
• Experience working with relational databases
• Excels in working remotely with remote team members
• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience
• Knowledge of Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services
• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc)
• Knowledge of containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, i.e. Kubernetes)
• Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS)
• ETL development experience
• Knowledge of event-based/message architectures
• Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists)
• Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible)
• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments