Principal Software Engineer - Last Mile Logistics

As a Principal Software Engineer at Lowes, you will play a crucial role in influencing business and technology decisions. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and delivering cross-functional solutions for highly complex problems. You will provide technical direction for the organization and contribute to fostering an excellent engineering culture. - Identify problems, take initiative, and drive clarity, convergence, and closure across teams and stakeholders. - Actively seek out challenging problems faced by customers, engineers, and business leaders. - Define and execute the technical strategy for retail technology in alignment with business objectives, collaborating with senior leadership. - Decompose complex problems to create simple solutions that can evolve over time. - Ensure smooth deployment and adoption of new systems in partnership with product owners and key stakeholders. - Analyze tradeoffs to create exemplary architecture in terms of stability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. - Implement modern software methodologies to streamline development processes. - Provide technical leadership in the design and development of systems. - Implement robust testing strategies to guarantee software reliability. - Monitor and optimize software application performance. - Maintain clear documentation for software systems and processes. - Create a culture of structured problem-solving and explore and adopt open-source technologies. - Contribute back to the open-source community. To qualify for this role, you should have: - Minimum of 10 years of experience in software development or a related field. - Expertise in frontend technologies, middleware, database technologies, or DevOps. - Bachelors degree in computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field, or equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree. Preferred qualifications include: - Masters degree in computer science, CIS, or related field. - Experience in defect or incident tracking software, continuous integration/continuous deployment tools, and IT Infrastructure Library framework. - Experience leading teams and defining technical requirements for complex solutions.,