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Job Summary:
FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. This position provides technical leadership for software engineering teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and high-quality development processes while leveraging expertise in Warehouse Execution Systems.
Responsibilities:
• Provide hands on technical leadership and guidance to software engineers, ensuring best practices, architectural integrity, and efficient development processes.
• AI Integration & Tooling: Proficiency in using LLM APIs, building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, and mastering prompt engineering to bake AI features into standard applications.
• AI-Assisted Development: The ability to use AI coding assistants (like GitHub Copilot or Cursor) to accelerate writing, debugging, and refactoring code through effective task decomposition.
• Data & MLOps Foundations: Core technical knowledge in data preprocessing, and cloud deployment (AWS/Azure) to manage and scale AI models in production environments.
• Provide leadership to define and develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Using Warehouse Execution System expertise to provide Software development team the guidance for the best-fit software solution for the domain, as well as additional advisory opinions to functional team to build a future-oriented Fortna Warehouse Execution System (WES) software.
• Conduct code review and architecture review to ensure that the software is delivered in adherence to coding standards, best practices, quality standards, and able to handle exception scenarios occurred on the Warehouse, including but not limited to operator or hardware issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, business analysts, designers, and other engineers, to define requirements, develop solutions, and deliver high-quality software products.
• Leading the collaboration between Software development team with other business stakeholders and customers to define the operational and technical scenarios and providing the Software solution to handle such scenarios.
• Produce technical documentation, including design documents, architecture diagrams, and API specifications.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Review and develop software to optimize performance, scalability, and efficiency through profiling, tuning, and other optimization techniques.
• Lead foundational product initiatives and set technical vision for applications.
• Innovate on and advocate for best practices and improved processes within the team and with internal partners; stays up to date with technology trends and innovations.
• Research and make recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Design and develop large scale solutions using Java/J2EE/GoLang/React/AI/ELK/NATS/Kafka and web technology stacks.
• Manage a team of software engineers and software development leads, and oversee/coordinate the work of offshore development teams.
• Job position requires working at late night or early morning EST time due to customer worldwide and offshore development teams.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5 years of experience working in a supervisory, architect, and/or technical lead role throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implementation throughout the software development lifecycle of at least two large-scale integrated systems, at least one of which involved leadership of a cross-border development team.
• At least one project requiring the design of database schema and performance tuning data queries for complex, high volume systems utilizing RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
• At least one project where the duties include creating and managing the development plan and ensuring that the triple constraint for projects (Scope, Schedule, and Budget/Efforts) is being met.
• At least one project involving the implementation of large-scale solutions in a warehouse controls and execution systems domain using the following tools/technologies: C; C++; C#; Java/J2EE; PL/SQL; React; ELK; and event driven and web technologies with micro-services architecture.
• Leading the collaboration between Software development team with other business stakeholders and customers to define the operational and technical scenarios and provide the Software solution to handle such scenarios.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience as a software engineer.
Company:
Fortna is a professional services firm helping companies with complex distribution operations meet customer promises. Founded in 1946, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.