DescriptionAs a Lead Software Engineer on the Store Item and Inventory Management Systems (SIIMS) team, you will partner with cross-functional teams to design, develop, debug, and support the delivery of technical solutions on web and mobile platforms. The SIIMS team supports the following business processes for Retail store associates: adjustments, counts, in-store transfers, store-to-store transfers. SIIMS also manages item's data, store price overrides, and price & promotion data.
Location: Flexible Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)
Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds-collaborate in person and innovate remotely.
Your Impact: - Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to design, develop, debug, and support complex technical solutions across the product portfolio, while leading knowledge transfers and facilitating high-quality code reviews
- Collaborate with Product Owners to drive and lead technical design decisions for scalable, enterprise-level solutions
- Refine and prioritize team backlogs by providing technical input, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business objectives
- Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot application workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and partnering with DevOps to resolve infrastructure and deployment issues
- Serve as a senior technical resource and mentor to engineers, conducting code reviews, analyzing defects, and guiding solution design and best practices
- Work closely with cross-functional partners (BSAs, QA, and Software Engineers) to deliver secure, compliant, and high-quality solutions
- Provide strategic technical recommendations to leadership, influencing architecture, tooling, and development approaches
- Participate in an on-call rotation, delivering timely resolution of production issues and ensuring system reliability and uptime
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***Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.***Year End BonusAs a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month's extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in management information systems, Computer Science, Business, or other analytical disciplines or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of IT experience delivering enterprise applications (design, development, and end-to-end delivery), with a proven track record leading complex, cross-team initiatives
- 5+ years of experience with .NET Core and C# (including .NET 8+), MVC
- 5+ years of experience with SQL, database design, and the use of ORM frameworks (such as Dapper or Entity Framework) to develop efficient and scalable applications
- 3+ years designing and building microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven/distributed systems, including resiliency patterns, observability, scalability, and high availability.
- 1+ years of experience monitoring and troubleshooting application workloads deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), identifying performance bottlenecks and collaborating with DevOps teams to resolve infrastructure-related issues.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems
- Ability to work on call as required by leadership (Tier 4 resolution, every 3 weeks)
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Agile/Scrum environments collaborating closely with Product Owners and Scrum Masters
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills; proven ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement
- Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, or Blazor) integrated with backend APIs
- Experience using logging and diagnostic tools in Azure to discover, diagnose, and solve problems.
- Experience building highly scalable systems and performance tuning them.
- Regular use of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture for enterprise-scale solutions
- Test automation background (unit, integration, end-to-end/load testing) using frameworks such as xUnit, Selenium, and Robot, with a commitment to high coverage and maintainable test suites
- Experience developing Android applications using Xamarin Forms or native Android
