Our Order Management System (OMS) is the platform behind how AutoZone fulfills orders across eCommerce (B2C, B2B) and in-store channels — processing millions of orders a year and growing. We're looking for a Lead Systems Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across OMS: designing and building cloud-native services, setting technical direction for a team of engineers, and driving the modernization of legacy integrations (Mainframe, Talend, EDI).
This is a player-coach role. You'll spend real time in the codebase — designing services, reviewing code, resolving production issues — while also setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and owning delivery across a functional area. You'll work closely with enterprise architects, product owners, and QA in a fast-moving environment that embraces AI-augmented development workflows.
Technical Leadership and Delivery
- Own end-to-end technical delivery for a functional area of OMS (e.g., Order Placement, Order Modifications, Order Lookup, Shipping/Routing), from design through production support
- Translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional requirements, technical designs, and development-ready JIRA tasks
- Lead technical design reviews and code reviews; set and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and clean-code practices across the team
- Drive technical readiness ahead of major release cycles — proactively surface risks, coverage gaps, and dependencies before development begins, not after
Hands-On Engineering
- Design and build scalable, cloud-native microservices using Java and Spring Boot, deployed on GCP (GKE)
- Architect solutions for high-throughput, event-driven workflows (Pub/Sub, Kafka-style messaging) with an eye toward fault tolerance, decoupling, and observability
- Maintain a consistent, visible individual contribution — commits, PRs, and production deployments — that sets the technical bar for the team
Team Development and Mentorship
- Mentor engineers through structured peer code review, technical coaching sessions, and module ownership assignments
- Build team self-sufficiency by delegating production deployment responsibility, module ownership, and meeting facilitation to grow junior and mid-level engineers
- Champion AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Claude Code) across the team to accelerate design, implementation, and review
Resiliency, Security, and Operations
- Ensure designs account for security, redundancy, disaster recovery, data integrity, and monitoring from the outset
- Own change management discipline for your area — mission plans, Change Requests, runbooks, and rollback procedures — to support a zero major/critical incident bar
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems for your functional area
- Drive proactive vulnerability remediation and dependency upgrades (Spring Boot, Java, Terraform modules, Helm charts) ahead of pipeline enforcement deadlines
Experience
- 9+ years of experience in application development
- Strong backend development and design experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices
- Experience designing and building highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native systems
- Experience modernizing legacy/brownfield systems alongside greenfield development
- Background in Agile/DevOps environments supporting large-scale enterprise implementations
Technical Skills
- Advanced Java and Spring Boot expertise; strong REST API design and microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) or equivalent cloud platform
- Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and pipeline integration (GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm)
- Competitive pay
- Unrivaled company culture
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Exclusive discounts and perks, including an AutoZone in-store discount
- 401(k) with company match and Stock Purchase Plan
- AutoZoners Living Well Program for free mental health support
- Opportunities for career growth
- Paid time off
- Life, and short- and long-term disability insurance options
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts with wellness rewards
- Tuition reimbursement
Skills Required
- 9+ years of experience in application development
- Strong backend development and design experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices
- Experience designing and building highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native systems
- Experience modernizing legacy or brownfield systems alongside greenfield development
- Background in Agile and DevOps environments supporting large-scale enterprise implementations
- Advanced Java and Spring Boot expertise
- Strong REST API design and microservices architecture experience
- Hands-on experience with GCP, including GKE, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery, or an equivalent cloud platform
- Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and pipeline integration using GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and Helm
AutoZone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AutoZone and has not been reviewed or approved by AutoZone.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) savings plan is offered, with employer matching contributions made per pay period noted in company materials. This creates a structured long‑term savings path for eligible employees.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan enables buying company stock at a discounted price. This provides an additional wealth‑building avenue beyond base wages.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, disability, and EAP coverage are available as part of standard packages. These offerings establish a comprehensive baseline of health and protection benefits for eligible employees.
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What We Do
AutoZone is the nation's leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories with more than 7,000 stores in the US, Mexico, Brazil and Puerto Rico. Each store carries an extensive line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured hard parts, maintenance items and accessories. AutoZone, headquartered in Memphis, TN, is a growing Fortune 300 company with a deep commitment to serving our customers, communities and fellow AutoZoners. We have vast opportunities in our stores, distribution centers, field offices, specialty business units and Store Support Center and embrace diverse experiences, backgrounds, knowledge and ideas to strengthen our teams and business. Our team is connected by a deep commitment to our Pledge and Values, principles established more than thirty years ago that reinforce our priorities and team culture. In addition, we constantly innovate and aspire to best serve our customers, creating new and better tools, training and outreach to serve both DIY and the professional installer customers. From in-store tools to E-Commerce, training and development to recognition, our team has the tools to help you grow your career at AutoZone. See where your drive can take you!
