Senior Software Engineer

Dollar General; Alamogordo (NM); On-site; USD 89,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Flexible hours

Benefits

Job summary

Dollar General Corporation in Alamogordo, NM is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on moving fast while keeping quality at the core. You will own critical tooling and collaborate with data, cloud, and product teams to deliver reliable systems.

The role offers full-time hours, a salary range of $89,000 to $124,000, mentorship from senior colleagues, flexible hours, and a benefits package. You should enjoy shipping clean code and enabling other engineers to move faster.

Qualifications

• 6+ years navigating technology work and politics.
• Meticulous attention to detail in every deliverable.
• Willingness to relocate or work on-site in Alamogordo, NM.
• Mentoring with a bias toward action and balanced patience.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a senior capacity.
• At least 5 years building expertise within technology.

Responsibilities

• Translate AWS metrics into the daily leadership chart.
• Mentor senior engineers through their first Jest on-call.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the stack.
• Build Python tooling to speed up Alamogordo engineers.
• Apply Project Management and GraphQL to fix slow engineering issues.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with GraphQL.
• Drive Azure incident postmortems to prevent outages.
• Collaborate with data teams to surface insights from production systems.

Skills

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Senior leadership

Relocation willingness

Strategic thinking

Tools

GraphQL

Python

Jest

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Job description

Dollar General runs lean, deploys often, and now needs a Senior Software Engineer who finds that combination exciting rather than terrifying. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $89,000 - $124,000, full-time hours, and a technology team at Dollar General that actually hands you the keys.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate AWS metrics into the one chart Dollar General leadership checks each morning
• Mentor the senior cohort through their first real Jest on-call at Dollar General
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Dollar General stack
• Build the Python tooling that makes every other Alamogordo engineer faster
• Apply Project Management and GraphQL to solve slow-to-anger engineering challenges
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with GraphQL
• Drive the Microsoft Azure incident postmortem that stops the Alamogordo outage from recurring
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable
• Prior experience working on-site in Alamogordo, NM, or willingness to relocate
• A generously-mentoring bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a senior capacity
• At least 5 years building expertise within the technology space

At Dollar General, our mission is to make technology simpler, faster, and more accessible for everyone in Alamogordo, NM and beyond. Every experiment-friendly idea gets a fair hearing at Dollar General, no matter the 6 of experience behind it.

Land here and your reward starts at $89,000 - $124,000, then climbs alongside the mentorship, flexible hours, and benefits we keep stacking on top.

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