Application Engineer - Java Developer

Job Description

AWG is looking for an Application Engineer in Information Technology (IT) to provide architectural and leadership oversight for strategic, business-transforming technical solutions in IT service and support.

The Application Engineer is a critical role delivering moderately complex solutions to highly impactful initiatives in the organization. As an Application Engineer with a focus on solution implementation, you’ll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept to go-live and rollout. You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes and love applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Deliver Solutions (%)

• Work with limited supervision to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards.

• Creates and executes designs for small sets of new functionalities as part of a software project using Java, Spring Boot, React, or similar.

• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques

Support Availability and Services (%)

• Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem with the support of teammates

• Engages with and supports the development team

• On-call responsibilities

Develop IT Strategy (%)

• Contributes to technical research on new technologies

• In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.

Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (%)

• Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance, and maintainability

• Open to receive and give constructive feedback.

• Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related degree.

• At least years of application development experience.

• Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar).

• Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others.

• Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture.

• Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications.

• Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences.

• Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful.

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies.

• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience.

• Solid experience with full SDLC – requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies.

• Experience working with relational databases.

• Excels in working remotely with remote team members.

NICE TO HAVE/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience.

• Knowledge of Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services.

• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc).

• Knowledge of containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, Kubernetes).

• Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).

• ETL development experience.

• Knowledge of event-based/message architectures.

• Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists).

• Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible).

• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving , member companies and , locations throughout states from wholesale division support centers. Consolidated sales for AWG in were $ billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies that provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, and pharmaceutical products. For more information, visit .

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

• Health Savings Account

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

• Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time

• (k) with % match along with other contributions

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D

• Employee Assistance Program

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

• Wellness Program

• Yearly Holiday Bonus