Entry Level Software Engineer Remote Jobs in Grand Rapids, MI

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you're provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family - take care of your career and your community!

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• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

What You'll be Doing:

• Codes, tests, and implements programs; develops system documentation according to SAFe Agile principles and industry standards.
• Performs unit tests, monitors results, and takes required corrective actions as needed.
• Assists in the deployment of applications.
• Optimizes and enhances applications and interfaces to meet SLA/functional requirements.
• Develops and integrates AI-powered application features on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry), including prompt design, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) components, and API/tool integrations with enterprise data sources.
• Applies AI-assisted development practices - including GitHub Copilot, spec-driven development, and context/prompt engineering - to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and support test and documentation activities.
• Provides technical consultation in new systems development, new package system evaluations and enhancement of existing systems.
• Assists product owners in systems analysis and creation or updating of documentation for all business processes.
• Interfaces with the Product Owner and IT partners to develop acceptance criteria for features and user stories and ensures acceptance criteria are met.
• Works within the SAFe Agile framework and utilizes ITIL best practices.
• Participates with other IT members, customers and other stakeholders in new product reviews, tests and pilots.
• Performs feasibility studies/proofs of concept to evaluate solutions.
• Participates in structured walkthroughs, secure coding, and technical reviews ensuring application coding and design follows secure coding and design principles.
• Assists in the production support and maintenance of applications in accordance with ITIL as needed.
• Actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies. This job role may also provide facilitation of activities for Agile teams within Meijer ITS as acting Scrum Master.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor's or equivalent.
• Any SAFe certification (SSM, SASM, SA, SPC, SPMPO).
• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Prefer experience in systems development and programming.
• Familiarity with business systems.
• Experience as a team member on project teams in a cross-functional environment. Experience on Agile teams is preferred.
• Experience in design and implementation of IT solutions.
• Strong knowledge of development tools, coding and scripting languages, SQL and testing.
• Proficient in multiple technologies or systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques.
• Knowledge of database management and file access methods.
• Working knowledge of large language model (LLM) concepts - prompt engineering, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - with hands-on exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or Microsoft Copilot Studio preferred.
• Familiarity with building AI or agentic features on the Microsoft Azure stack (Azure Functions, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Application Insights) and with GenAI frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph or Semantic Kernel is preferred.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and modern practices such as spec-driven development and context/prompt engineering is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong team-oriented interpersonal and communication 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.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Ability to provide high level of quality and productivity.