Sr. Software Engineer

Grocery Outlet; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Program

Equity

401(k) Profit Sharing

Job summary

A grocery retail company is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to drive engineering excellence and deliver state-of-the-art applications. Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into technical specifications, leading system design, and collaborating across teams. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in full stack development with strong expertise in .NET and front-end technologies like React and Angular. The position offers a salary range of $135,000 - $155,000 annually along with bonuses and equity.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in front-end and backend technologies.
• Strong expertise in system design and architecture.
• Experience with real-time data streaming platforms.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Lead system design and architecture.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.

Skills

Full stack development

Front-end technologies (React, Angular)

.NET

AI/ML technologies

RESTful APIs

Cloud services (GCP)

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder management

Tools

Talend

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in order to drive engineering excellence and deliver state-of-the-art applications to our Independent Operator and end users. This role is an individual contributor with certain leadership responsibilities to translate business requirements into technical requirements, evaluate tools and technologies and accelerate development and testing of the desired outcome. This role involves using AI and machine learning to accelerate engineering outcomes and derive engineering efficiencies. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in full stack development including good understanding of design patterns, data interchange and integration patterns. The Sr. Software Engineer will report to the Sr. Director, Application Development.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and product requirements into clear technical specifications and requirements that are ready for development.
• Create technical specification documents and other relevant artifacts.
• Document non‑functional expectations from business/product.
• Solid understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Lead system design and architecture for all functional and non‑functional aspects of the business problem.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions for simplifications and future needs.
• Lead documentation of all design and architecture components.
• Collaborate with product managers and technical leads to prioritize and manage functional and non‑functional backlogs, leading development teams in agile, scrum‑based deliveries.
• Drive cross‑functional collaboration, manage project and system dependencies and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Lead the technical design, conduct code reviews, and ensure adherence to best practices throughout the development process.
• Lead the design of scalable, reliable software systems, promoting best practices in efficient software development across teams.
• Track and measure software delivery performance with key metrics, continually enhancing development processes for optimal outcomes.
• Leverage cloud services, open standards, and frameworks to accelerate development while optimizing CI/CD and DevOps automation.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and low‑latency user experiences by monitoring applications and integration solutions consistently.
• Implement product metric monitoring solutions to derive insight for feature improvement.
• Implement APIs, integrations and UI in an iterative and measurable way.
• Collaborate, lead and implement integrations between data platforms, operational systems, and AI services.
• Proven experience building REST‑ful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Define and implement data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Ensure adherence to privacy regulations and enterprise security frameworks.
• Ensure AI policy and usage of AI is monitored, measured and implemented for optimizations and efficiencies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering and cross‑functional leaders to maintain bi‑directional communication for updates, impediments and progress.
• Mentor junior engineers in the team and engagement partners.

About the Pay

• Base Salary Range: $135,000 - $155,000 Annually
• Annual Bonus Program
• Equity
• 401(k) Profit Sharing
• Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary based on location.

About You

• 6+ years of experience in design and development of front end (React and Angular), web based and backend technologies (.Net/C#/Java).
• 4+ years of experience in .Net, React and Angular development preferably in a SAP environment.
• Strong front‑end engineering and UI/UX mindset.
• Strong expertise with system design and architecture.
• Experience with AI tools like Codex/Claude/Cursor/others for code development is a big plus.
• Strong knowledge of relational and non‑relational databases and their implementation.
• Strong knowledge of implementation of CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of ESB, Middleware and Data Engineering (Talend) and Microservices.
• Extensive experience with cloud services: GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Redis/MemCache).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with real‑time data streaming platforms (Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).
• Strong experience of AI/ML technologies and tools to accelerate development and testing.
• Industry experience in retail, e‑commerce, finance, or supply chain.

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