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Lowes Foods · 5 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer (aka Principal SWE)

Hickory, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Lowes Foods is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to deliver high performing, robust, scalable, and maintainable software while mentoring other engineers. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, documentation of system designs, and continuous improvement of best practices to enhance product performance.

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Responsibilities

Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products

Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions

Serves as a subject matter expert for your assigned component, providing mentorship and expertise to build knowledge and capabilities within engineering teams

Plays an active role in maintaining an inclusive and positive culture through active participation in team discourse, providing mentorship for junior team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Actively schedules and attends code reviews to maximize quality, security and maintainability of all software

Quickly identify and resolve complex technical issues and recommend and implement permanent robust solutions

Partners with leverages cross-functional teams determine user requirements and drive project plans, releases, and overall development

Collaborates with peers across the organization on projects that turn opportunity into results

Documents system designs, processes, and architecture for transparency and future reference, complying with standards developed by architecture teams

Reports on project status, challenges, and results to stakeholders

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while sharing knowledge with other engineers

Contribute to the continual improvement of your team’s quality standards and engineering processes

Qualification

C#SQL.NET CoreMicroservicesAgileWillingness to learnProblem-solvingTime managementOpenness to feedback

Required

Requires either a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

8+ years software engineering experience including but not limited to the following technologies/skills:

Proficiency in C# and SQL; knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML5, React is beneficial but not required

Familiarity with ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Entity Framework, Microservices, LINQ (proficient), REST APIs, Full Stack Applications, Azure DevOps & GIT, Azure CI/CD Pipelines, T-SQL, Relational Database Design/Development, Hangfire, Kendo UI, jQuery, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, etc

Multiple years of full-time experience with .NET Core 3 framework or higher. We are continually transitioning to the latest .NET Frameworks. Experience with classic .NET is also valued

Daily Standups/Scrums, Sprint Planning, Reviews & Retrospectives, and daily peer code reviews. Proficiency in these areas is important, especially at the senior level and above, where we expect individuals to lead and engage in these agile ceremonies effectively

Problem-solving abilities, effective time management, willingness to learn and seek assistance, openness to daily feedback from multiple perspectives through Pull Request reviews, and the ability to peer review other team members