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H-E-B · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

H-E-B is a leading omnichannel retailing company focused on enhancing customer digital experiences. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will mentor engineers, lead initiatives, and drive technical solutions while ensuring system reliability and performance across multiple teams.

Retail

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals

Sets goals and standards within team and influences within the organization

May own initiatives that span multiple teams

Proactively seeks out opportunities to help others grow

Reviews epics critically and ensures they're appropriately broken down and prioritized with cross-team dependencies identified

Ensures cross-team dependencies are identified and well understood by all teams involved and other relevant stakeholders

Works across teams to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy

Owns risk, change, and uncertainty across multiple teams

Ability to proactively identify ambiguity and drive teams towards mitigating potential issues

Considers how ambiguity in their team's work might affect, or be affected by, the work of other teams

Works on technology projects / tasks with no guidance

Manages cross-team commitments, their progress, and roadmap to delivery

Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning across teams, before they require escalation

Ensures expectations across teams and stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved

Understands the architecture, design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services

Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors

Understands adjacent domains and the design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services as they affect their team

Expert understanding of software design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance and capable of architecting and designing at the portfolio, domain, or end-to-end solution level

Introduces new technologies that have ROI / influence

Stays ahead of technology trends and evolution with an eye to long term sustainability and growth of existing and new systems / services

Supports engineers in optimizing product-ready code

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software

Able to lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams

Aligns teams toward simple, effective designs

Leads production support, on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting of issues impacting multiple teams and services

Drives adoption of system health based on site reliability engineering best practices

Enacts changes to team monitoring practices that improve system and team health

Creates documentation and training related to technology stacks, standards, and systems / services across multiple teams

Provides constructive criticism to stakeholders across the organization

Helps to break down barriers across teams

Looks for opportunities to share learnings and learn from others

Seeks to improve communication and collaboration between teams by building relationships and finding common ground

Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools across teams at the group / department level based on industry standards, patterns, and best practices

Approaches problem-solving holistically and considers solutions through a combination of technology and process

Identifies best approach to improve technical solutions to complex problems and effectively proposes paths forward to drive outcomes

Capable of leading large initiatives with multiple engineers including design, architecture, and delivery of multiple complex features across multiple systems / services

Qualification

PythonSystem architectureSoftware design patternsAgile methodologiesGenerative AI technologiesData modelingSoftware engineering toolsMentoring engineersTeam collaborationEffective communication

Required

A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience

7+ years of experience in software development

Expert in in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks (should include extensive experience with Python)

Expert knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns

Ability to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential

Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)

Extensive experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results

Expert knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture and design patterns

Expert understanding of the full SDLC and frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Preferred

Experience with Generative and Agentic AI technologies is a plus (e.g. MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, A2A)

Company

H-E-B

Glassdoor4.2

H-E-B is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with approximately $46 billion in revenue and 160,000+ Partners.

Founded in 1905

San Antonio, TX, US

10001+ employees

https://careers.heb.com

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