Senior Software Engineer (Cost)

H-E-B; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

H-E-B Digital Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to deliver complex code solutions for the Cost XP team, supporting CCR (Cost Change Request) and modernizing cost management processes.

You will own end-to-end development, contribute to architecture decisions, and collaborate with Product Managers and business stakeholders to drive performance, reliability, and scalable solutions across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Computer Science degree or equivalent training or work experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Proficient in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design patterns.
• Review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, performance and scalability.
• Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence.
• Consistent, high-quality results.
• CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture.
• Development methodologies and processes.
• Proficient with modern tech stack: Angular, TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, Java, GraphQL, PostgreSQL.
• APIs and distributed systems design.
• Cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Data storage, modeling, performance optimization, troubleshooting.
• CI/CD, testing, release management.
• Observability and monitoring.
• Learn new technologies quickly.
• Lead technical design discussions and evaluate engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Write production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria.
• Create, configure, and support build and deployment pipelines.
• Lead coding, configuration, testing and debugging of systems; deliver quality features.
• Provide production support and on-call readiness for team services.
• Demonstrate ownership and mentor peers; foster collaboration.
• Drive process improvements at the team level aligned with goals.
• Review epics for dependencies, prioritization and clarity.
• Lead team ceremonies and larger team efforts.
• Ensure monitoring and observability adhere to best practices.

Skills

CS fundamentals

System design

Observability

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Responsibilities

Since H-E-B Digital Technology’s inception, we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, make food decisions, and ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital—we’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll deliver complex code solutions. You’ll support the build and deployment pipeline and when necessary, diagnose / solve production support or on-call issues. You’ll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance and provide end-to-end support.

Once you’re eligible, you’ll become an Owner in the company, so we’re looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. “Partner-owned” means our most important resources—People—drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.

Do you have a:

HEART FOR PEOPLE… skills to organize multiple engineers, negotiate solutions, and provide upward communication?

HEAD FOR BUSINESS… consistency in demonstrating / upholding standards of coding, infrastructure, and process?

PASSION FOR RESULTS… capable of high-velocity contributions?

About the Team and Role

The Cost XP team owns CCR (Cost Change Request), H-E-B's strategic cost management application. CCR enables Procurement Partners and Suppliers to manage Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), Procurement Income (PI), supplier negotiations, tariffs, rebates, and other cost management workflows that directly support H-E-B's Cost Optimization and Core Business Modernization priorities.

This team is responsible for modernizing legacy cost management processes and building the future of cost management at H-E-B. Engineers on the team work closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and other engineering teams to deliver capabilities that improve visibility into cost drivers, simplify workflows, and support major modernization initiatives, including legacy platform retirement and adoption of H-E-B's modern cost management ecosystem.

What is your background?

• A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• 5+ years of experience in software development
• Proficient in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.
• Advanced 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
• Able 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)
• Experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, system architecture and design patterns
• Advanced understanding of development methodologies and processes
• Proficient knowledge of relevant technologies used to build modern applications and services (e.g., Angular, TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, Java, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
• Proficient understanding of software architecture, system integration patterns, APIs, and distributed systems design.
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable applications deployed in cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure).
• Proficient knowledge of data storage technologies, data modeling, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with software delivery practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Strong understanding of application observability, monitoring, logging, and operational support practices.
• Ability to quickly learn and effectively apply new technologies, frameworks, and business domains.
• Experience leading technical design discussions and evaluating engineering solutions for performance, scalability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.

What is the work?

• Works on technology projects / tasks with limited or no guidance
• 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.
• Creating, configuring, and supporting build and deployment pipelines.
• Leads others in coding / configuration / maintaining / testing / debugging existing or new systems; delivers quality features and bug fixes that align with our development process
• Capable of leading team on effective production support or on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting highly complex issues within team services. Able to identify a path to resolution for most issues for team services.
• Demonstrates ownership of team services and influences the team. Starts to learn how to influence across teams. Fosters growth environment through mentorship and open collaboration with peers.
• Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools at the team level aligned with the organization and company goals.
• Reviews epics critically and ensures dependencies are identified, they’re appropriately broken down and prioritized, and well understood by the team and stakeholders.
• Drives priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning for their work before they require escalation. Ensures expectations within their team are clarified between all parties involved.
• Leads team ceremonies and larger team efforts.
• Drives improvements within assigned team.
• Expert knowledge in their area of focus and mentors’ others
• Fosters a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within their team and with their team's business stakeholders.
• Leads root cause analysis and establishing action items for the RCA.
• Learns to work with other teams to resolve issues involving dependent services. Identifies and communicates cross-team dependencies.
• Ensures system monitoring for team services is effective and adheres to best practices.

Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Senior Software Engineer?

• High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth
• Adjust – Leverages Agile metrics to improve team performance and deliverables. Evaluates and adjusts resources, self, and team as necessary.
• Collaborate – Ability to work on tasks which span multiple domains, requiring cross-team collaboration, which have a high impact on your project.
• Agility – Embraces risk, change, and helps team manage ambiguity within the team’s scope of work.
• Able to drive progress without having a complete picture and can articulate potential tradeoffs and prioritize when faced with ambiguity.
• Connect – Delivers clear, concise, effective messages across different levels; can tailor communication based on intended audience.
• Growth Mindset – Fosters a culture of mentoring and coaching across multiple technical teams and other stakeholders.
• Relate – Fosters a culture within their team where people are encouraged to share their opinions and contribute to discussions in a respectful manner, approach disagreement non-defensively with inquisitiveness, and use contradictory opinions as a basis for constructive, productive conversations.

Can you...

• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
• Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed