Staff (Senior+) React Engineer

Description - External 

Since H-E-B Digital Technology's inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital--we're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. If you enjoy taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team. 
 
Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Senior Software Engineer job, that means you have a... 
HEART FOR PEOPLE... you can organize multiple engineers, negotiate solutions, and provide upward communication 
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you consistently demonstrate and uphold the standards of coding, infrastructure, and process 
PASSION FOR RESULTS... you're capable of high-velocity contributions in multiple technical domains 

What you’ll do at H-E-B: 

• Build web sites that support multiple brands across the H-E-B Digital organization in (React/NEXTjs, GraphQL, Node) 
• Coach and mentor junior engineers in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies; enable others to succeed. 
• Work closely with engineering, product and design to create best possible experiences for customers using the HEB website and mobile web 
• Provide peer review and Quality Assurance support to other engineers and receive the same feedback on all code output 
• Grow and be mentored in engineering techniques, processes, and new technologies 
• Learn new technologies, frameworks, and systems and share your knowledge with the web team 
• Contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of applications. 
• Identify, scope, and architect solutions for new features while applying sound technical judgment that considers technology alternatives, impact on affected / adjacent systems and tradeoffs. 
• Work with other platforms (iOS, Android, backend engineering) to build out scalable systems that support H-E-B and Central Market’s technology stack 
• Identify and communicate cross-team dependencies. 
• Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management 

Do you have what it takes to succeed? 

• Build world-class applications using a variety of tools including React/NEXTjs, GraphQL (Apollo), GCP, and more. 
• Work closely with senior engineering staff, product managers, and design experts to learn about HEB & Central Market customers and build them quality experiences 
• Grow a stellar team of engineers through interviewing 
• Refactor HEB’s existing infrastructure to bring the web and mobile web experience into the digital age 
• Research new technologies with your teammates and make choices that will help direct web development for HEB into the future 
• Grow your expertise in modern web development 
• You’re conversant in technologies such as React, Node, JavaScript, GraphQL, NEXTjs, and cloud technologies 
• Bonus: Kubernetes, Vue, Java, modern testing practices, TDD, SEO best practices 
• You have 4+ years of development experience or comparable schooling (CS degree, bootcamp diploma) 

Who You Are: 

• You have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of successful, high-quality results. 
• You enjoy learning new technologies as they emerge. 
• You are learning development methodologies and processes 
• You have a solid knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns 
• You have experience with common software engineering tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, etc. 
• You have a team mentality and are unafraid to fail 
• You have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable field, or equivalent self-study. 
• You are working to develop your engineering talents 

Who We Are 

• H-E-B Digital has technology hubs across Texas in Dallas, Austin and San Antonio 
• H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $28 billion 
• We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise--Because People Matter (See above) People really DO matter here.  
• We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values, and support them with thriving company-wide programs 
• We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day 
• Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company 

DEVS3232
10-2019