Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Items

About the role

Join the Publix Technology Team as a Lead Software Engineer supporting the Enterprise Items business area. The Lead Software Engineer will provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable enterprise platforms and integrations. You will collaborate closely with Architecture, Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Security, and Quality teams to design, build, and support complex technology solutions across the organization.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will guide technical direction and execution for complex applications and integrations, from design through deployment and operational support. You will perform peer code reviews, lead technical problem resolutions, and serve as a subject matter expert within the product portfolio. This role ensures solutions align with architectural standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability objectives, while supporting new implementations, system modernizations, enhancements to existing platforms, and enterprise-wide integrations.

Location: Hybrid (Lakeland, FL). To support our hybrid work model, candidates must reside, or be willing to relocate, within a commutable distance of Lakeland, FL.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, development, testing, implementation, and support of complex, enterprise-scale technology solutions with minimal guidance
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across multiple teams and platforms, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, security policies, and compliance requirements
• Serve as the technical expert for assigned systems, providing guidance and resolution for highly complex technical issues
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions
• Lead and participate in technical design reviews, peer code reviews, and architecture discussions to ensure solution quality and consistency
• Provide technical input into solution scope, estimates, dependencies, and risk considerations
• Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, usability, scalability, and total cost of ownership expectations
• Develop and maintain implementation plans, technical documentation, and operational runbooks
• Partner with Business Systems Analysts, Product Owners, QA Analysts, and stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and support user acceptance testing
• Guide and mentor software engineers through technical challenges, design decisions, and engineering best practices
• Diagnose and resolve complex system issues by identifying root causes and determining appropriate remediation and escalation paths
• Support after-hours implementations and provide on-call support for critical systems as required
• Advocate for continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence across supported platforms

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 7+ years of experience analyzing business problems and translating business requirements into technology solutions that consider system performance, usability, quality, and cross-system interdependencies, and scalability
• 7+ years of experience supporting and developing enterprise applications running in a multi-platform distributed environment
• 7+ years designing enterprise class solutions using object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, and solution frameworks
• 7+ years of development experience with the .NET framework, C#, and SQL
• Experience with applications using .NET Core, and ASP.NET
• Ability to effectively engage with business area and other teams and acquire technical knowledge to solve business problems
• Experience in large enterprise environments involving multiple technical teams
• Willingness to work on-call rotations and after-hours support on an as-needed basis

Preferred Qualifications

• 11+ years of software engineering experience in a large, distributed enterprise environment
• Experience leading technical design and development efforts across multiple teams and platforms
• Experience designing and implementing API-driven, event-based, and integration-heavy solutions, including messaging and asynchronous processing
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka or equivalent technologies)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services, including cloud databases, messaging, and integration technologies
• Experience with automated testing, test-driven development (TDD), and modern DevOps practices
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines and source control platforms
• Experience extending and integrating commercial or SaaS platforms within an enterprise technology ecosystem
• Experience developing solutions that support contact center operations, customer interaction platforms, or enterprise service workflows
• Experience with AI-enabled platforms and automation capabilities, including:
  • AI-assisted automation and decision support
  • Natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics
  • AI-driven classification, routing, or recommendation functionality

Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Year-end bonus: one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if employed through the issue date of the bonus check

Visit our website to see all of our benefits: https://jobs-beta.publix.com/benefits/

Work Model

Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you need focus time and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.

Candidates selected to advance in the interview process will be required to participate in at least one onsite interview at our Lakeland, FL campus.