Principal, Software Development

Our challenge is to use modern tools, techniques, and methods to develop, modify, and/or update complex and extremely powerful systems. Our customers and partners need applications that enable them to easily operate and expand their businesses. Ingram Micro is a $50B revenue company a year, with $5B of that revenue going through our team's eCommerce web site.

Ingram Micro is seeking experienced software engineers who can leverage their skill-set to grow as part of an Agile SCRUM team. They must be a quick learner and love challenging themselves to constantly raise the bar. This opportunity requires strong problem-solving skills, an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication as they deliver efficient, well designed, and tested software for a positive user experience. Innovative thinking and well-designed products with an emphasis on performance are a necessity to give our customers the best experience possible.

Your Role:

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools, and utilities.

• Determines systems software design requirements. Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.

• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards, and procedures.

• Manages large projects or processes.

• Limited oversight from manager.

• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

• Hands-on experience with the construction of complex engineering solutions and knowledge of software development methodologies

• Assumes end-to-end ownership of solutions as part of the Agile SCRUM team, which includes assisting in the development of testing automation and other key quality aspects.

• Partner with product owners and other Agile SCRUM team members to determine new features and user stories.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure that each increment adheres to the original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate.

• Assist in establishing and supporting coding standards

• Engage in all Agile ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and team retrospectives.

• Exhibits DevOps mindset where Agile SCRUM team is accountable for a product from inception to sunset.

• Respond to support incidents for production applications to make a quick repair to prevent application outages.

• Create and/or update the documentation to support development efforts. Documentation may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, and/or design documents.

• Share knowledge among members in the Agile SCRUM team

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and effective collaboration in a team-oriented environment.

• Attitude for learning new technologies and concepts.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize.

• Able to translate customer and business needs to technical solutions.

• Resilient to change.

• Establish User Personas in collaboration with Product Management

• Comfortable working with little to no supervision and providing supervision to associate engineers.

• Mentor and train other Software Engineers

• May be asked to participate in Quarterly Architecture Summits

• Take the lead on challenging software engineering projects.

• Be a resource for multiple challenging software engineering projects at a time.

• Coordinate with external teams/stakeholders.

• Maintain a holistic view of the project, never losing sight of the smaller details.

• Proficient in the following:

  • Unit testing as well as coding in Java , Python knowledge is good to have.

  • Good understanding of Cloud Architecture and hands on experience working with GCP.

  • Experience working with log management tool and APM tools like splunk, data dog etc.

  • Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis

  • Application of design patterns

  • Application of non-functional software qualities such as resilience, maintainability, etc.

  • Applying behavior-driven testing techniques

What you bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant science and math discipline with an IT emphasis is required.

• 10-15 + years of relevant technical experience, with at least 3 + years building Front End Solutions in eCommerce, or Master’s degree plus 4+ years of relevant experience

• Deep hands-on experience with Front-end technologies JSON, HTML, CSS and CSS pre-processing frameworks (Sass, Less or Stylus), JavaScript, JavaScript libraries (Jquery) or Web Components and other industry standard frameworks

• Hands-on experience in developing frontend solutions using languages: C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl or Node.js

• High proficiency in React, JQuery, Angular 2 JS, Boostrap, and Knockout JS

• Deep, hands-on experience with .NET Web development experience with C# /.NET4.x / MVC.

• Strong background in MS SQL Server, SQL Databases, and writing SQL stored procedures

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)

• Understanding of layout aesthetics

• Extensive experience with front end frameworks such as ASP.Net MVC, React, Angular, Vue, or Ember

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling (AJAX)

• Experience with RESTful APIs and MicroServices

• Experience with unit testing libraries such as Mocha, Jest, Chai, Enzyme

• Experience with code versioning tools (TFS, git) and process.

• Preferred to have knowledge on GCP(Google Cloud Platform) or any other cloud platform.

• Knowledge of SEO principles

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Strong ability to collaborate and work across teams and disciplines

• Strong software design and test methodology knowledge and abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written forms

• Ability to understand and analyze complex problems and break them into small solvable pieces

• Ability to learn new tools, frameworks, technologies and platforms required experience

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Good understanding of specifics of markup for modern browsers.

• Familiarity Python is a plus

• Experience with test automation for Front-End (unit and integration test suites)

• Experience building system in GCP

• Experience with NodeJS