Senior Software Engineer

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs that support critical order-processing workflows across web and mobile.
• Build front-end components and internal dashboards using modern JavaScript frameworks as needed.
• Develop comprehensive automated test suites (unit integration contract E2E) to ensure software quality and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot debug and optimize production systems while driving continuous performance and reliability improvements.
• Create clear technical documentation architectural diagrams runbooks and onboarding guides.
• Build and enhance observability (metrics logs traces) using APM tools such as Datadog New Relic or Splunk.
• Provide on-call support as part of a rotation partnering with teams through PagerDuty for incident response and resolution.
• Collaborate with QA SRE and Operations teams to ensure service readiness operational excellence and smooth deployments.
• Implement robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices that enable safe automated releases across environments.
• Use agentic AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot IDE agents) to accelerate coding debugging testing and documentation workflows.
• Contribute to AI-assisted development workflows including automation patterns and model deployment pipelines integrated into CI/CD.
• Collaborate with product managers and the engineering team during discovery refinement and grooming of Jira stories to shape meaningful well-scoped work.
• Partner with architecture and cross-domain teams to design scalable secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Influence team members through strong engineering judgment communication and domain knowledge.
• Mentor junior engineers promote best practices and support continuous improvement across the team.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of experience building and delivering scalable software systems.
• Strong proficiency in backend technologies such as Kotlin Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Vue.js React Node.js Nuxt.js).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL MongoDB Cosmos DB).
• Proven experience designing and developing microservices and API-driven backend systems.
• Deep understanding of software design patterns and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with agentic AI systems and MCP-based integrations is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot or LLM-based tools for accelerating development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Experience building observability into systems using Datadog New Relic or Splunk.
• Strong Agile/Scrum/Kanban expertise using tools like Jira and GitHub.
• Background in e-commerce or transactional systems (cart checkout payments order lifecycle) is a plus
• Proven ability to improve reliability observability and operational excellence.
• Experience with best security practices: PCI tokenization secrets management OWASP.
• Expertise event-driven architectures (Kafka) idempotency and processing guarantees.

• Experience with order lifecycle management
• Experience with agentic AI systems and MCP tool integrations.
• Experience using Karate for service testing.
• Effective communicator who can clearly articulate technical ideas.
• Ability to lead through influence and mentor less-experienced engineers.
• Demonstrates sound judgment in selecting technologies patterns and approaches.
• Performance tuning and optimization to meet strict SLAs.
• Familiarity with GraphQL including building or consuming GraphQL APIs.

What We Do

Ahold Delhaize USA a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize is part of the U.S. family of brands which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion Giant Food The GIANT Company Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services including Finance Legal Sustainability Commercial Digital and E-commerce Technology and more. Our team includes some of the best and brightest talent from a variety of backgrounds ranging from decades-long careers in retail to fresh perspectives from outside our industry. With a purpose-driven culture grounded in our values of courage care integrity teamwork and humor we are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued. Our team shares a common motivation to drive change take ownership and enable the brands we support to nourish their customers and communities. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies. As part of the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast we understand our vital role in enabling healthier people and a healthier planet and have an ongoing commitment to driving sustainable change that leads to a thriving food system nourishes local communities and creates a better world.

Why Work With Us

We love fresh perspectives not just fresh produce. We believe that an inclusive workplace fosters creativity accelerates innovation and helps us create an even better product. At Ahold Delhaize USA you’ll find coworkers who are caring and committed and who focus on dreaming big and getting things done.

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