Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.
Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide, and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations. Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of “Connecting the world to share food and care for one another”, and our work directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.
We are currently on the lookout for an Associate Technical Lead to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- The designing and development of enterprise solutions for one of the world’s largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products
- Implementing distributed and highly robust enterprise applications that scale for enterprise demands
- Architecting and implementing scalable software solutions and documenting design decisions
- Carrying out detail technical designing of software solutions
- Scoping and breaking down user stories into clear and achievable technical tasks
- Implementation of technical designs including coding, calling existing services, creating new components, etc.
- Ensuring a high standard of engineering quality through code reviews, unit tests, and analytics
- Ensuring engineering principles and related processes have been adhered to
- Providing constructive feedback to team members via code reviews and architectural reviews
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of experience developing production enterprise applications and managing teams
- Extensive, full-stack experience with web-based technologies and architectures such as RESTful APIs, microservices, HTML5, Java, Spring, JavaScript/ES6, Node.js, React, React Native, Angular
- An in-depth understanding of the technology stack, e.g.: HTTP, browser/JS engine architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, Linux, containers/virtual machines
- Experience in architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable web applications
- Familiarity with a variety of software patterns and principles
- Database skills - the ability to understand the use cases for relational and non-relational data, such as implemented code against several different database platforms: RDBMS, NoSQL, and shared storage
- Experience with DevOps practices and working with Cloud IaaS or PaaS providers such as AWS and Azure
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- A proficient understanding of agile processes, CI/CD, and code versioning tools, such as Git
- The ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills, and the ability to exercise mature judgment
Benefits:
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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What We Do
Sysco focuses on distribution of food products to restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality businesses.
