Staff Software Engineer - (Next.js, Native iOS/Android and Python) San Antonio, Tx. OR Austin, Tx.

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer-Mobile/Full Stack, you'll provide end-to-end support to applications and identify ways to improve codebases, solutions to complex problems, and effectively propose paths forward to drive outcomes. You'll make recommendations on overall application system designs, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance. Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service.

What is your background?

• A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
• 7+ years of experience in full-stack software development
• Expert in multiple programming languages, technologies, and frameworks
• Expert knowledge in system and data architecture, data modeling, and design and capable of architecting and designing at the application or service level using well-accepted design patterns
• Ability to review platform designs for strength of engineering solutions, namely performance, sustainability, and iterative development potential
• Experience with common software engineering tools (e.g., Git, Jira, Confluence)
• Expert-level proficiency in full-stack engineering, with deep experience in:
  • JavaScript & TypeScript (ES6+, modern tooling, bundlers, frontend patterns)
  • Next.js (App Router, server components, SSR/SSG, API routes)
  • Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask, async frameworks, microservices)
  • Native Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines)
• Mastery of computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, system design, distributed systems
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated experience delivering production mobile apps, including App Store and Google Play lifecycles
• Experience writing robust test suites: Jest, RTL, Playwright, PyTest, Locust, XCTest, Espresso
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP), containerized services, and microservice architectures

Area of Focus

• Mentors / leads engineers, drives larger initiatives, and enables others to execute against team goals
• Expert on team services and knowledgeable about adjacent services
• Influences other teams
• Sets goals and standards within team and influences within the organization
• May own initiatives that span multiple teams
• Proactively seeks out opportunities to help others grow

Work Breakdown

• Reviews epics critically and ensures they're appropriately broken down and prioritized with cross-team dependencies identified
• Ensures cross-team dependencies are identified and well understood by all teams involved and other relevant stakeholders and properly planned for
• Works across teams to foster a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy
• Helps teams balance innovation, platform debt, and delivery urgency

Dealing with Ambiguity

• Owns risk, change, and uncertainty across multiple teams
• Ability to proactively identify ambiguity and drive teams towards mitigating potential issues
• Considers how ambiguity in their team's work might affect, or be affected by, the work of other teams
• Works on technology projects / tasks with no guidance

Reliability and Accountability

• Manages cross-team commitments, their progress, and roadmap to delivery
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays, and cost ballooning across teams, before they require escalation
• Ensures expectations across teams and stakeholders are clarified between all parties involved

Architecture, Coding and Testing

• Understands the architecture, design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services
• Writes production-ready code and tests that meet acceptance criteria, are easily testable, documented, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases, security, and errors
• Understands adjacent domains and the design and integration landscape of multiple H-E-B systems or services as they affect their team
• Expert understanding of software design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance and capable of architecting and designing at the portfolio, domain, or end-to-end solution level
• Introduces new technologies that have ROI / influence. Stays ahead of technology trends and evolution with an eye to long term sustainability and growth of existing and new systems / services
• Supports engineers in optimizing product-ready code
• Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software
• Able to lead strategically important projects involving multiple teams
• Aligns teams toward simple, effective designs

Application Support and Health

• Leads production support, on-call, debugging, and troubleshooting of issues impacting multiple teams and services
• Drives adoption of system health based on site reliability engineering best practices
• Enacts changes to team monitoring practices that improve system and team health

Effective Communication and Knowledge Sharing

• Creates documentation and training related to technology stacks, standards, and systems / services across multiple teams
• Provides constructive criticism to stakeholders across the organization
• Ensures decisions are communicated clearly to technical and non-technical partners

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Helps to break down barriers across teams
• Looks for opportunities to share learnings and learn from others
• Seeks to improve communication and collaboration between teams by building relationships and finding common ground
• Fosters shared ownership across teams

Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Staff Software Engineer?

• Recommends and drives changes to processes and tools across teams at the group / department level based on industry standards, patterns, and best practices
• Approaches problem-solving holistically and considers solutions through a combination of technology and process
• Identifies best approach to improve technical solutions to complex problems and effectively proposes paths forward to drive outcomes
• Capable of leading large initiatives with multiple engineers including design, architecture, and delivery of multiple complex features across multiple systems / services

Can you...

• Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
• Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
• Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed