IT Application Engineer World Wide Grocery Store Tech Payments

Lead the design and implementation of largescale distributed systems that power critical WWGST services. Drive architectural decisions and best practices across teams to ensure scalability reliability and performance of missioncritical applications. Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into innovative technical solutions.

Evaluate and integrate technologies and frameworks to drive innovation and improve processes.

Mentor junior engineers to elevate quality and promote best practices. Participate in capacity planning and performance. Troubleshoot complex issues in production environments performing root cause analysis and implementing robust solutions.

Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to design and implement APIs and services that enable seamless integration between various Amazon platforms.

Champion a culture of operational excellence through monitoring logging and alerting best practices. Participate in oncall rotations to ensure high availability and rapid incident response for critical systems. Continuously improve system resilience.

Key job responsibilities
Plays a lead role in design and development efforts for significant initiatives and across major segments of the organization.
Identifies tasks for automation and information management improvement and works with appropriate teams to develop viable solutions.
Leads projects to design develop test deploy and support applications interfaces and design integrations using a variety of tools and environments.
Provides software advice and consultation to business partners.
Engages with application developers to identify new design coding and other system / methodology best practices.
Identifies new technologies that by applied within WWGST and help improve systems and processes overall.
Mentors fellow Team Members in software application development best practices and methods.


A day in the life
As an IT Application Engineer for international POS systems your day centers on driving operational excellence within our SAFe framework. Youll tackle a prioritized backlog of improvements for UK and Canadian stores focusing on system performance and reliability. Collaborating with vendors and crossfunctional teams youll progress highpriority items while providing daily support for critical POS functions. Youll participate in SAFe ceremonies and engage in architecture discussions. Your expertise will be crucial in mentoring junior members and translating stakeholder requirements into innovative technical solutions that propel our global retail operations forward.

About the team
We are a small dynamic team responsible for the Point of Sale (POS) systems in WWGSTs Canadian and UK Whole Foods Market stores. Our work is critical to the smooth operation of these international retail locations. We collaborate closely with thirdparty software vendors to optimize our core POS solution while also working directly with operations partners product teams and other technical and support teams across WWGST. Our mission is to continuously improve the POS experience for both our store associates and customers driving operational excellence in our international retail presence.

BA/BS degree and 36 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

MS degree and 68 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

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