Software Engineer, Senior

Office Depot is a brand you've counted on since 1986 for your office supplies and business services, supported by a strong retail network and world-class technology platforms.  As the business landscape continues to evolve, we are changing the way we look at our technology platforms to drive significant change in the way we do business. We're reinventing ourselves and making significant investments in our multi-billion-dollar digital platforms to drive growth in our range of B2B products & services. Apply today to be a part of this revolutionary change!

The role of Sr Full Stack Engineer is to design, build and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience.  Working as an integral part of an Agile development team, this role will require close and continuous collaboration with the team Lead Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and fellow team members to translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs which will be implemented as production-ready application code using Java and/or Golang and RDMS technologies. Ideal candidates should be a full stack developer having experience developing front-end, middle-tier and back-end systems.  Experience architecting and managing public-facing, low latency / high-volume APIs and microservices.  Understanding of data integrity, processing, and transformations.  Should have solid knowledge of Java and/or Golang and integrating with relational databases. Preferably with 5 to 7 years of development experience in one of these or similar languages. Candidates should have a working knowledge with at least one public cloud platform and some experience of application containerization (e.g. Kubernetes / Docker etc.).

What You’ll Do:

• Translate user stories and functional requirements into resilient & secure technical designs. 
• Design, build and maintain high-quality technology solutions that deliver an exceptional customer experience. 
• Ensure application SLAs are met by employing appropriate monitoring and alerting tools as required by each supported application. 
• Work with development leads to assist in developing overall application technology design activities; assist with the identification and definition of key architectures, components and interfaces, design of data model and data/information flows. 
• Work with Product Owners to help prioritize development activities and estimate level of effort. 
• Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the Office Depot team. 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in software engineering/development. 

Technical Competencies: 
Must haves:

• Java EE and/or Golang 
• Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Vertx, GraphQL 
• RDBMS (SQL Server / Postgres / Snowflake/Oracle) 
• NoSQL DB (Elastic/ Couchbase / MongoDB) 

Nice to Haves:

• ETL (SSIS, Datastage)
• Experience in producing and consuming XML and JSON.
• Cloud experience (AZURE, AWS)
• Cloud integrations ( CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes/AKS, Functions, Storage, Data Factory, DevOps, Spring Cloud)
• Ability to create unit tests, performance, and integration tests (jUnit, jMeter/k6 & Postman/Newman)
• Developer Tools (Git/GitHub, JIRA, Visual Studio,MS Management Studio, Notepad++)
• Linux/Unix basics 
• Tomcat, Netty, Jetty, JBoss, Nginx a plus. 
• Skills and Abilities:  
• Natural problem solver 
• Ability to mentally model complex systems 
• Ability to break down complex problems into smaller, less complex problems 

Personal Attributes: 

• Team player 
• Creative
• Ability to pivot with change and multi-task effectively.
• Detail orientated 
• Strong communicator 

Benefits and Perks 

• 100% permanent remote work in the United States  
• Medical / dental / vision, AD&D, and Life Insurance  
• Paid Time Offer (PTO) and company paid holidays  
• Health Saving Account (HSA)  
• Long Term Disability and Short-Term Disability  
• 401(k) matching program  
• Discounted auto, home, and pet insurance 
• Retirement savings plan rollovers  
• Banking services  
• Military leave  
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)  
• Regular pay for funeral/memorial service observance  
• Discounts on Office Depot/Microsoft/Apple products and services 
• Opportunity for professional growth and career advancement 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, age, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in alignment with the City & County of San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 

Varis is wholly owned by The ODP Corporation, which is the legal employer of Varis associates. ODP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.