[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Order Management @Meijer

Role Description

The Sr Software Engineer for OMS provides deep technical leadership across Meijer’s Order Management ecosystem, spanning Yantra services, fulfillment orchestration, timeslot services, third-party marketplace integrations, catalog merge, and cross cloud resiliency work. This role drives architecture, engineering excellence, integration strategy, CI/CD modernization, and operational resilience across ~70+ OMS repositories and related services.

You will be the technical backbone for a highly distributed, multi team environment—ensuring scalability, correctness, reliability, and alignment across Digital, DevOps, SRE, Architecture, and partner teams.

Position allows for flexible remote schedule with some travel to the office as needed. Selected candidate must live in the Meijer six state footprint (MI, IN, IL, OH, WI, or KY) or be willing to relocate to one of these states.

What You'll be Doing

• Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Own and evolve the end‑to‑end OMS technical architecture across Yantra, digital services, Hybris/SAP Commerce, and Mirakl 3P integrations.
  • Define and enforce service boundaries, API contracts, event schemas, and system dependencies for COP, SOP, preorder, post‑order, and fulfillment flows.
  • Lead architectural decision making via ADRs, design reviews, and cross‑team governance.
  • Champion multi‑cloud active/active patterns for OMS.
  • Interface with the Technical Product Owner and IT partners to develop acceptance criteria for features and user stories and ensure acceptance criteria are met.
  • Work within the SAFe Agile framework.
• Distributed Systems & Event‑Driven Design
  • Architect and optimize event‑driven workflows using Kafka, service bus queues, asynchronous handlers (Webflux), and durable orchestrations.
  • Ensure robust retry, idempotency, sequencing, compensation, and error‑recovery patterns.
  • Drive message taxonomy and standards across dozens of OMS microservices.
• Cloud, Infrastructure & Operations
  • Lead OMS cloud modernization across Azure (AKS, ARO, APIM, Cosmos, Azure SQL) and Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud SQL/AlloyDB).
  • Define failover, scaling, traffic routing, and resiliency patterns for business‑critical flows.
  • Enable deep observability through OTEL, Dynatrace, structured logging, synthetic testing, and distributed tracing.
• CI/CD, Dev Productivity & Engineering Excellence
  • Oversee modernization of pipeline templates, GitHub migration, build governance, and quality gates (SonarQube, Veracode, JaCoCo).
  • Establish standards for versioning, artifact management, manifest repos, and multi‑service release coordination.
  • Champion zero‑downtime deployment strategies and environment reliability.
• Integration Leadership
  • Serve as OMS integration authority for Hybris, Front-End CMS, Mirakl, Instacart, Shipt, Buncha, and other enterprise platforms.
  • Guide LaunchDarkly feature‑flag strategy.
  • Ensure consistent API semantics, forward/backward compatibility, and smooth partner onboarding.
• Data & Platform Engineering
  • Provide architectural direction for CosmosDB, Azure SQL, Liquibase migrations, and high‑scale ETL via Azure Data Factory.
  • Lead strategies for catalog merge logic, inventory feeds, pricing flows, and partner data delivery modernization.
• Testing & Quality
  • Define test strategies across performance, integration, E2E order creation → pickup flows, and environment isolation.
  • Partner with SDET and EQE to build robust automation and reduce dependency on shared environments.
  • Ensure high service coverage, testability, and strict contract enforcement.
• Cross‑Team Leadership & Mentorship
  • Mentor other engineers and newly onboarded platform team members.
  • Facilitate alignment across TPOs, Platform, DevOps, Architecture, and Business stakeholders.
  • Drive change management for major OMS initiatives.
  • Coordinate structured walk-throughs, secure coding, and technical reviews ensuring application coding and design follows secure coding and design principles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or 12 years' experience (or comparable combination of education and related experience).
• Backend Engineering: Expert in Java/Spring Boot and familiar with .NET where OMS UI integrations apply.
• Deep REST API & contract design experience.
• Proven track record as a Lead Engineer or equivalent in a large, distributed, multi‑service environment.
• Ability to simplify complexity, create scalable patterns, and guide multiple delivery teams.
• Kafka, event‑driven architecture, asynchronous workflows, resiliency patterns.
• Multi-cloud traffic, failover, and integration strategies.
• Azure (AKS/ARO, APIM, Storage, Data Factory, Functions, CosmosDB).
• GCP familiarity (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL/AlloyDB) preferred.
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Helm, Docker, YAML build templates).
• Liquibase, SQL schema design, CosmosDB modeling, Cassandra DB experience, ETL & pipeline tuning.
• Deep understanding of consistency, latency, and cross‑cloud sync challenges.
• Hybris/SAP Commerce integration patterns (order flows, timeslots, catalog merge).
• Mirakl 3P marketplace experience.
• LaunchDarkly, SAP/OMS order lifecycle understanding.
• OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, logs/traces correlation, alert tuning.
• Experience designing performance test strategies for distributed systems.
• Ability to drive automation and test architecture alignment across teams.
• Strong team-oriented interpersonal and communication skills with leadership tendencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience migrating large portfolios from ADO → GitHub.
• Experience with reliability engineering or SRE-style disciplines.
• Understanding of retail fulfillment workflows and order‑orchestration domain.
• Prior involvement in multi-cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience as a team member on project teams in a cross-functional environment. Experience on Agile teams is preferred.
• Expertise in design and implementation of IT solutions.
• Proficient in multiple technologies or systems.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques.
• Strong knowledge of database management and file access methods is desirable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of agile practices in a cross-functional environment preferred.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.

Benefits

• Weekly pay
• Team member discount
• 401(k) with company contributions
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Development programs for advancement and career growth
• Medical/dental/vision
• And more!

Pay Range

The pay range for this position is $103,000.00 - $160,750.00. This pay range represents the minimum and maximum base pay for the position, which is determined by factors such as market data, the qualifications required, the level of responsibilities associated with the role, and other roles at this same level. Your specific pay rate within this range will be based on your experience, qualifications, and skills compared to the internal team you’ll be joining.

Interview Process

The interview process is intended to learn more about your personal skills and experience. To this end, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools during the hiring process.

Please note:

• Cameras must be turned on during all virtual interviews.
• AI tools may not be used during any part of the interview process.