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Hy-Vee Food Stores Principal Software Engineer in Grimes, Iowa
At Hy-Vee our people are our strength. We promise “a helpful smile in every aisle” and those smiles can only come from a workforce that is fully engaged and committed to supporting our customers and each other.
Job Description:
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Department: Information Technology
FLSA: Exempt
General Function
A seasoned applications development professional responsible for the design, development, and support of applications; conscientiously mentors less-experienced engineers on their technical and professional development.
Core Competencies
Partnerships
Growth mindset
Results oriented
Customer focused
Professionalism
Reporting Relations:Accountable and Reports to: TBD
Positions that Report to you: None.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Seasoned in foundational organization and industry engineering principles and core competencies; instills core values in less experienced engineers and peers; actively advocates for opportunities to improve across teams and the organization; sometimes involved in defining overall engineering strategy.
Skillfully considers and weighs multiple different solutions for solving a problem.
Helps breaks down large projects into smaller iterative steps that each deliver value.
Can take a long-term vision and define building blocks to get there.
Thoroughly understands team's and adjacent team's product, domain, and vision and how it fits into the overall business.
Actively participates in roadmap feedback with the product team.
Looks for opportunities to simplify product & technical design.
Sometimes makes insightful recommendations regarding priorities.
Leads team practices and processes and regularly discusses improvements with their team. Sometimes collaborates with others to improve organizational practices and processes.
Confidently enter and solves areas of ambiguity and unfamiliarity.
Frequently tackles more ambiguous problems.
Manages risk by preventing others from being and getting blocked.
Manages and mitigates risk concerning the project and the work required to obtain team's objectives.
Strategically sequences deliverables to minimize risk.
Evaluates possible solutions by factoring in implications of each option, including the ability to adapt to change and future possibilities.
Proactively identify tech debt without being asked and outline strategies to eliminate large issues within a business domain.
Implements solutions and best practices to proactively monitor overall product health.
Actively assists and contributes to resolving production issues.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics
Desire to grow as an individual through continuously learning new techniques.
Experience creating an environment with a continuous delivery mindset and maintaining a culture that also embraces this mindset.
Proven experience in developing and creating secure, resilient, maintainable applications.
Promotes security practices and helps other engineers to deepen their security knowledge.
Ability to learn new domains quickly.
Resourceful, detail-oriented, and highly organized problem solver on a wide range of concepts.
Drives a positive culture of innovation and continuous learning.
Fosters a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing across teams; actively demonstrates these behaviors.
Ability to work positively in a cross functional environment with a variety of stakeholders to achieve team objectives.
Experience and Education
Bachelor degree preferred, or relevant experience.
Supervisory Responsibilities (Direct Reports)
None
Physical Requirements
Visual requirements include: ability to see detail at near range with or without correction.
Must be physically able to perform sedentary work: operating a computer, occasionally lifting or carrying objects of no more than 10 pounds, and occasionally standing or walking.
Must be able to perform the following physical activities: meeting with customers, kneeling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.
Working Conditions
The duties for this position are performed in a general or remote office setting. There is weekly pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks in a day.
Equipment Used to Perform Job
Laptop and desktop computer, telephone, copier, Fax, printer, PC with Microsoft Office programs and other software relevant to specific position.
Financial Responsibility
None
Contacts
Has frequent contact with office personnel in other departments related to the position as well as occasional contact with users and customers.
Confidentiality
Has access to confidential information.
Are you ready to smile, apply today.