Lead Software Engineer (100% remote)

Job Description

Lead Software Development Engineer (Remote)

This is a 100% fully remote role. Work virtually from anywhere in the U.S.

Office Depot is a brand you've counted on since 1986 for your office supplies and business services, supported by a strong retail network and world-class technology platforms. As the business landscape continues to evolve, we are changing the way we look at our technology platforms to drive significant change in the way we do business. We're reinventing ourselves and making significant investments in our multi-billion-dollar digital platforms to drive growth in our range of B2B products & services. Apply today to be a part of this revolutionary change!

As a Lead SDE, you'll be an integral team member of an agile development team within The ODP Corporation's innovative Product & Technology organization, contributing greatly to this pivotal transformation in the B2B space.

What You'll Do

Design, build, and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience. Work together with product owners, business analysts, and your fellow team members to translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs. Then, implement the designs as production-ready application code using Java and/or Golang. Manage the design and integration of all required cloud IaaS & PaaS services including compute, database, messaging, object storage and more.

You're an ideal candidate for this role if you have advanced coding skills in Java and/or Golang, with 5+ years of experience in one of these languages. You'll also need a working knowledge of one or more public cloud platforms and application containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).

Primary responsibilities include:

• Translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs.
• Design, build and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience.
• Ensure application SLAs are met by employing appropriate monitoring and alerting tools as required by each supported application.
• Guide the development team in overall application technology design activities. Lead the identification and definition of key architectures, components and interfaces, design of data models and data/information flows.
• Work with product owners to develop team roadmaps, prioritize features, and estimate effort levels.
• Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' experience designing, developing, and deploying large scale systems on multiple platforms, preferably in Java EE.
• Experience guiding less-experienced software engineers in collaboration with software development managers.
• Prior participation in software product architecture and design.

• Working knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring MVC.
• Practical expertise with Git source code management.
• Adept with public cloud IaaS & PaaS services like compute, database, messaging, object storage.
• Ability to create unit, performance, and integration tests with jUnit, jMeter/k6, or Postman/Newman
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker to manage containerized applications.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase, MongoDB, or Elastic.
• Knowledge of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Comfortable with HTTP, WebSocket, and gRPC.
• Basic working knowledge of Linux and Unix.
• API design experience with advanced HTTP and Swagger, producing & consuming service endpoints.
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Netty, Jetty, JBoss, Kafka, Quarkus, or Nginx is a plus, as well as familiarity with any of the following: shell scripting, Python, Nodejs, Oauth, JWT, EKS, GKE, Azure, or AKS.

Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule

The ODP Corporation offers competitive salaries, a benefits package including a 401(k) and plenty of opportunities to move and grow within our organization!

Equal Employment Opportunity

The ODP Corporation is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Ordinance

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in alignment with the City & County of San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance