Director of Software Engineering, Transportation

Company: Staples Advantage Canada
Location: Framingham
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

• Director of Software Engineering, Transportation Share This Job Director of Software Engineering, Transportation Location: United States-Massachusetts Framingham , MA US Date posted: 2/18/2021 10:03:32 PM Type: Full-time Permanent / Contract: Regular Job number: 1150771 The safety and security of our associates and applicants are our top priorities as we navigate the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on our work and personal lives. Consistent with public health guidance, we are promoting social distancing, and following all recommended precautions in our buildings to keep our employees and visitors healthy including increased cleaning protocols, available masks sanitizer and wipes, and guidelines to limit capacity in common areas at all our locations. Description Meet the Team-- -- At Staples our Digital Solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, Agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners, and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services. If you want to be on the front lines, driving one of the greatest technology transformations of the 21st Century, you should join our team! -- Staples' Order Lifecycle Systems team enables scalable, efficient, and intelligent order and delivery solutions, and exceptional customer experience through our expertise in business domains and technologies. Your Role -- We are seeking a Director of Engineering to drive transformation at Staples Transporation. This leader will work with both the business and technical teams to build and maintain a scalable platform for Staples Transportation Network. If you are Customer-Centric, Results-Focused, and Innovative you will love it here! This position focuses on defining the vision for supply chain transportation platform and solutions, supporting business growth, and providing hands on technical guidance and architectural decisions. The leader will be hiring top engineering talent and choosing the right technology stack. The individual must have solid experience in software engineering, preferably in the e-commerce and/or retail domain so that she/he can hold on their own and conduct hands-on technical deeps dives as warranted. What You'll Do --
  • Build transportation technologies for the business partners in Supply Chain, Customer Service, eCommerce, Marketing, Merchandizing, and Sales to enable exceptional customer experience, and strong growth & profitability
    • Develop, integrate, and optimize applications with the Staples eco-system
      • Hire and train new technical talent
        • Manage existing legacy applications to support new integrations and capabilities and address any service interruption
          • Lead onshore and offshore teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time and on-budget
            • Oversee daily activities to ensure that business priorities and end user expectations are being met Who You--Are-- -- The ideal candidate is a technically respected leader with a proven track record of successfully delivering large/complex products or platforms from concept to launch, and a deep network of talented engineers/managers (and following), who can recruit and build teams quickly. You are self-starter, detail-oriented problem-solver with exceptional software development skills. The successful candidate will innovate using AI first and cloud PaaS based technologies and deliver scalable ML enabled solutions (e.g., last mile app/platform, omni-channel rush delivery, pick up access points, and delivery as a service) in rapid iterations.
              Qualifications The Skills You Bring --
              • Bachelors degree with 10+ years' experience at high tech companies
              • 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience involving large scale implementations and open-source technologies
              • Experience designing service-oriented architecture
              • Expert at developing large scale highly reliable, fault-tolerant systems for high performance using parallel and distributed computing involving multi-threading and concurrency
              • Strong knowledge of software operations, performance tuning, parallel processing, modularization, application code profiling tools and algorithmic analysis
              • Strong object-oriented programming experience
              • Experience with diagnostics, troubleshooting, debugging and continuous integration
              • Experience leading software development lifecycle including concept, design, prototyping, integration, testing, and production release
              • Cloud application development experience
              • Expert programming skills developing back-end applications in NodeJS, Go, Python, Java, or Scala
              • Expert at building microservices exposing REST APIs using frameworks such as Swagger/OpenAPI, App Service/Azure
              • Strong scripting skills in a Linux/Unix environment (e.g.: Bash, Python, Perl)
              • Experience working with data processing frameworks (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)
              • Expertise working with RDBMS and NoSQL data stores on-premise and in the Cloud (e.g.: SQL Server/Azure, PostgreSQL/Azure, MongoDB, Cassandra, Cosmos DB/Azure, DynamoDB/AWS, Redshift/AWS, Teradata, Oracle)
              • Expertise applying best practices in the areas of Configuration Management, Automation, Continuous Integration & Deployment, and Monitoring using frameworks like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins and platform services in the Cloud
              • Experience with performance analysis and debugging of Java applications or services at scale (e.g., JConsole, VisualVM)
              • Knowledge of Spring and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Spring Security) is a plus.
                
                Staples is The Worklife Fulfillment Company, helping businesses of all sizes be more productive, connected and inspired. With dedicated account teams, category professionals, innovative brands and a curated product assortment for business, Staples provides customized solutions to help organizations achieve their goals. Interested in joining the team? Check out our--perks and benefits !
                
                Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
                
                Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the process, please call 1-888-490-4747 or email staffing@staples.com for more information.

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