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7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world.We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation - working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to 'activate awesome' and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day.If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

7-Eleven's Store technology team is looking for an experienced Software Engineering manager who enjoys collaborating with a team of engineers, designers, and product visionaries in transforming our legacy retail platform into a cloud-based platform and innovate on latest technology, creating awesome products that millions of people experience every day.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Capable of leading and mentoring multiple scrum teams of engineers to successfully design, develop, and deliver engineering solutions.
• Leads teams of engineers, including offshore resources, on assigned engineering projects by providing clear direction, relevant documentation, and practical guidance.
• Have a passion for hands-on coding, defining product backlog and putting the customer first and delivering an exceptional experience through the creation of extensible and re-usable products & services.
• Innovation, assessing requirements that are said and unsaid, performing proof of concept, developing solution and code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Mentor engineering team members on technical decision making, code reviews and enforcing engineering practices and standards.
• Identifying short- and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and providing feedback for proposed solutions; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Actively engages in product and business discussions with a technical eye for feasibility and adherence/defining overall roadmaps and architectural strategy.
• Focus on improving current software development practices, standards and regulations
• Research new technologies to support 7-Eleven's digital transformation vision.
• Fully familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and development practices.

Basic Qualifications:

EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 10+ years

YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 3+ years

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering.
• 10-12 years, System Design Skills and Experience in large scale enterprise application.
• Experience in payments and retail domain is a plus.
• Technical Breadth with multiple Disciplines: Software engineering, Integration, Data Security, Cloud etc.
• SAFe Agile experience: from design through development, testing, implementation, production, and support.
• Hands-on Development skills and usage of Key Technologies - Java, React, NoSQL, DynamoDB. REST-based applications development; Spring Framework; APIs, JavaScript, DevOps CI&CD
• Strong Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features including containerization, EC2, Fargate, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Lambdas, Auto Scaling, S3, and Kinesis.
• Solid understanding of Enterprise architecture, microservices and event driven architecture
• Experience building systems to handle large volume of transactions at scale
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to take initiative, independently drive work to completion, and execute with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
• Demonstrates ownership and accountability responding to production support issues with urgency and driving timely resolution.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers by providing technical guidance, fostering sound decision-making, and promoting ownership and accountability for building and operating scalable services and applications.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues in complex software applications.
• Stays on the leading edge of software development tools and best practices.
• Self-directed with a start-up, entrepreneur mindset.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the individuals assigned to this job. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change the duties and responsibilities of this job to meet business and organizational needs, as necessary.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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