Principal Software Development Engineer - Varis (Remote)

This is a 100% fully remote role. Work virtually from anywhere in the Continental U.S.

Why Join Us

Varis is a well-funded and fast-growing technology startup. Our incredible team includes top industry leaders with decades of experience. We are innovation driven, customer centric, and ready to transform eProcurement. Our culture is focused on bold vision, launching the simplest (yet still valuable) initial solution to learn, then either failing or scaling fast. We seek teammates who drive value creation, are great problem solvers, have strong interpersonal savvy, and can successfully learn on the fly! Varis is a bold new company that formed in early 2021. Joining us now is a ground-floor opportunity to shape our limitless future. On our team you will: see and feel the direct impact of your work; be surrounded by passionate people; learn how to be an entrepreneur; and be at the center of a highly dynamic business model with tremendous individual and collective potential.

As Principal Software Development Engineer, you’ll create and innovate multi-disciplinary technical and functional solutions to unprecedented problems and devise solutions for the most complex and highest risk business situations. You’re an ideal candidate for this role if you have vast experience in software development and have a track record of helping companies reinvent their core business and drive the execution of their end-to-end technology solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Perform as one of the company’s highest-level experts in 2-3 IT disciplines, platforms, technologies, systems, or processes.
• Advise executives on the use of current and future technologies for optimal impact on current and future business strategies and results.
• Serve as an expert-level resource for making strategic investments in applications, databases, technologies, systems, programs, or processes. Act on own initiative and awareness of market conditions and technical innovations to provide solutions to problems before they occur.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of current best practices and emerging trends within the technical architecture and application development arenas. Maintain an awareness and understanding of relevant emerging technologies.
• Creating and expand relationships with major vendors, suppliers, regulators, or other critical external organizations.
• Understand and be proficient with company procedures for documenting new initiatives with complex business cases and detailed ROI models to gain IT, Business Unit and Executive Committee agreement and approval to proceed.
• Focus on professional development through our wide array of learning opportunities for continued growth within the company.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years’ experience designing, developing, and deploying large scale systems on multiple platforms, preferably in Java EE and/or Golang.
• Proven experience solving complex problems in a multi-platform systems environment.
• Ability to conceive, design, and create new tools, products, or processes in a deep specialty or as an expert integrator of systems to meet business needs.
• Polished communication, collaboration, presentation, and technical leadership skills.

Strong experience with:

• Kubernetes (on premise and cloud) and Docker. Work with Kubernetes ingress controllers, Nginx, Traefik, Kong, Envoy is preferred.
• API Gateways and service meshes.
• Building a large family of APIs, circuit breaking, gradual degradation, with log aggregations, and monitoring.
• Cloud computing, including basic compute, load balancing, elastic scaling, monitoring, data stores, and security.
• Public clouds such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• On premise infrastructure – computing, load balancing, and network security.
• Container orchestration, building resilient scalable systems
• Modern user facing applications in React.js.
• Bash, Ansible and Terraform.
• Java micro frameworks – Vert.x, Quarkus, and Micronaut.
• JDK version 8+.
• SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL, MySQL, Couchbase, MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Implementing solutions with ElasticSearch, Solr, or Vespa.
• Event streaming using Apache Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, etc.
• Multiple CI/CD tools.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification and are not intended to be a complete list of all required responsibilities and skills. Other duties and special projects may be assigned per business needs. Job descriptions are subject to change at any time with or without notice. Varis is wholly owned by The ODP Corporation, which is the legal employer of Varis associates. ODP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.