Staff Software Engineer-(Platform engineering) San Antonio or Austin, Texas

H-E-B; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

H-E-B is seeking a Staff Software Engineer-Backend on the Point of Sales Digital Team to drive end-to-end software improvements, scalability, and secure, reliable systems.

You will mentor engineers, own multi‑team initiatives, review epics, and ensure robust design and testing across H-E-B systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting.
• Hands-on experience with Platform engineering and tools.
• Experience with Golang, C/C++, Python and Java.
• Experience with Microservices APIs and Kubernetes & Postgres.
• Expert understanding of the full SDLC and Agile frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals.
• Reviews epics and ensures proper breakdown and prioritization with cross-team dependencies.
• Manages cross-team commitments, progress, and roadmap to delivery.
• Writes production-ready code and tests meeting acceptance criteria and security requirements.
• Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software across multiple systems.

Skills

Golang

C/C++

Python

Java

Microservices

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

SDLC & Agile

AI tools

Enterprise architecture

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

As a Staff Software Engineer-Backend on the Point of Sales Digital Team, you'll provide end-to-end support to applications and identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes. You'll make recommendations on overall application system designs, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance.

Location

San Antonio, TX (Hybrid)

Qualifications & Key Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in a professional setting
• Hands‑on experience with Platform engineering and tools
• Experience with programming languages such as Golang, C/C++, Python and Java,
• Experience with Microservices APIs and Kubernetes & Postgres
• Expert understanding of the full SDLC and frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Safe etc.)
• Experience with one or more AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or Google Gemini)
• Expert understanding of enterprise architecture design patterns

Education

• A Computer Science degree

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Area of Focus
• Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals. Expert on team services and knowledgeable about adjacent services. Influences other teams
• 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
• Work Breakdown
• Reviews epics critically and ensures they're appropriately broken down and prioritized with cross‑team dependencies identified
• Priority and Dependencies
• 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
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• 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
• Reliability and Accountability
• 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
• Architecture, Coding and Testing
• 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
• Application Support and Health
• 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
• Effective Communication and Knowledge Sharing
• Creates documentation and training related to technology stacks, standards, and systems / services across multiple teams
• Provides constructive criticism to stakeholders across the organization
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• 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

The responsibilities and essential functions outlined above describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Duties and responsibilities may be modified at any time based on business needs. Employees may be required to perform other job‑related tasks as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

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

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.