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Application Engineer 

Department: Information Technology

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Job Description

AWG is looking for an Application Engineer in Information Technology (IT) to provide architectural and leadership oversight for strategic, business-transforming technical solutions in IT service and support. 

The Application Engineer is a critical role delivering moderately complex solutions to highly impactful initiatives in the organization. As an Application Engineer with a focus on solution implementation, you'll be responsible for guiding our customers from concept to go-live and rollout.  You are a passionate technologist who is up to date on the latest technologies, can dive into processes and love applying your skills to solve a customer challenge.   

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Deliver Solutions (30%) 

• Work with limited supervision to develop solutions based on requirements using AWG standards. 

• Creates and executes designs for small sets of new functionalities as part of a software project using Java, Spring Boot, React, or similar. 

• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques 

Support Availability and Services (40%) 

• Troubleshoot and develop a solution to the problem with the support of teammates 

• Engages with and supports the development team 

• On-call responsibilities 

Develop IT Strategy (15%) 

• Contributes to technical research on new technologies 

• In collaboration with other members of the team, build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.

Development and Continuous Improvement Culture (15%) 

• Identifies and implements opportunities for system improvement around stability, performance, and maintainability 

• Open to receive and give constructive feedback. 

• Serve as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers 

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related degree.

• At least 5 years of application development experience. 

• Experience developing applications and services (APIs) using React, Java, and Spring Boot (or similar). 

• Experience with source code repository using GitHub, Azure DevOps or others. 

• Experience with source code branching using Gitflow, trunk-base or similar. 

• Knowledge of microservices architecture. 

• Knowledge in designing, developing, and implementing high performing, large scale, and complex systems including integration with third-party applications. 

• Experience executing the organizational operation of vision and goals, in alignment with department leadership. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Accomplished interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communications to various levels of audiences. 

• Ability to work independently, self-starter, highly motivated, resourceful. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technologies over career and ability to learn new technologies. 

• Ability to work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives in working towards delivering an exceptional product experience. 

• Solid experience with full SDLC - requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment using waterfall and/or agile methodologies. 

• Experience working with relational databases. 

• Excels in working remotely with remote team members. 

NICE TO HAVE/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Retail, wholesale, or Consumer Product Goods industry experience. 

• Knowledge of Azure/AWS/ cloud or managed services. 

• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc). 

• Knowledge of containerization technology (Docker; orchestration tools, i.e. Kubernetes). 

• Experience with common programming languages (React, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS). 

• ETL development experience. 

• Knowledge of event-based/message architectures. 

• Knowledge of virtual networking (public, private, and hybrid networks and subnetworks), network interfaces, and identity/access management (security groups and roles, network access control lists). 

• Knowledge of latest DevOps technologies (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, IaC frameworks such as Ansible). 

• Knowledge in solution evaluation/selection and implementation for large scale, and complex environments.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation's largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations throughout 33 states from 9 wholesale division support centers. Consolidated sales for AWG in 2025 were $12.2 billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies that provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, and pharmaceutical products. For more information, visit AWGinc.com.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

• Health Savings Account

• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account

• Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time

• 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D

• Employee Assistance Program

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability 

• Wellness Program

• Yearly Holiday Bonus