Software Engineer II

Address: USA-ME-Scarborough-145 Pleasant Hill Rd
Store Code: Sltns Dvlpmnt-Engmnt-Rx, Fuel & Ofc (5118836)
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Ahold Delhaize USA associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.
Primary Purpose
The Software Engineer II contributes to the creation of high-quality, innovative, and fully functional software solutions that adhere to coding standards and technical design. This role will contribute to the research, design, development and implementation of new software solutions in addition to enhancing existing software capabilities. This role will also collaborate with other Squad members, stakeholders and the Product team to ensure that products meet business, functional, and technical requirements and are scalable in nature. This will include translating business and technical requirements into well engineered, tested, and deployed technology solutions by gathering user requirements, defining system functionality, and writing code in various languages. The Software Engineer II has the ability to take on smaller projects from start to finish, work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors and trace issues to their source. The Software Engineer II develops solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop the technical design for solutions based on the defined scope, requirements, and functional design provided by the Product team and other stakeholders.
• Build and configure technical components (interfaces, conversions, reports, workflows) so that solution design meets business needs and solution architecture standards.
• Write and document programming code to meet the gathered requirements.
• Deliver solutions through ERP or SaaS solutions (e.g. SAP, Manhattan Active WM, Relex)
• Perform code reviews and quality assurance to ensure compliance to technical standards and business requirements.
• Collaborate with Squad to support the Product team to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare development and test environments, conduct test readiness to proceed with testing, and collaborate with to execute testing.
• Fix bugs identified during quality assurance and testing.
• Continuously reduce technical debt (e.g., create technical debt stories, remove bugs) and decommission legacy applications and solutions.
• Perform updates and enhancements to the solution, as needed.
• Release software into production and perform release testing (system integration, mock conversion, parallel, regression, performance and stress, infrastructure).
• Participates in initiatives for improving way of working in teams and in eliminating technical debt
• Develops solutions to moderately complex technical issues and problems that impact multiple areas or disciplines.
• Communicates with internal team members across multiple areas and client team members.
• Works to influence project/team leaders regarding solution design, process and/or approaches.
• Delivers high quality work in cross-functional team environments - at times taking on additional technical assessments and responsibilities
• Contributes and at times leads positive and collaborative solution brainstorming and delivery
• Has strong self-led work drive and accountability as well as a growing ability to lead team assessments and discussions to achieve assignments (agile, or bimodal).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Technical field; equivalent trainings/certifications/experience equivalency will be considered
• 3 or more years of equivalent experience in relevant job or field of technology
• Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
• Experience designing interactive applications
• Ability to develop software in Java, Cobol, Python, C#, ColdFusion, C++, or other programming languages
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (e.g. Angular, Ruby, Django, , Spring, Express)
• Experience with test-driven development
• Ability to document requirements and specifications
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Proficiency in troubleshooting software issues and debugging a large codebase

Skills: Programming, Testing, Analytical Thinking, Agile Development, Problem Solving, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Data Privacy, Application Security, Technical Troubleshooting
Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in relevant field of study preferred, Additional trainings or certifications in relevant field of study preferred
• Experience in Agile teams and or Product/Platform based operating model.
• Experience in retail or grocery preferred.

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Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. When considered together, the companies of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the nation, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week.
Job Requisition: 394650_external_USA-ME-Scarborough