Principal, Software Development

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Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts. Our market reach, diverse solutions and services portfolio, and digital platform Ingram Micro Xvantage™ set us apart. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com

Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow - it’ll be a fun journey!

Our challenge is to use modern tools, techniques, and methods to develop, modify, and/or update complex and extremely powerful systems.  Our customers and partners need applications that enable them to easily operate and expand their businesses.  Ingram Micro is a $50B revenue company a year, with $5B of that revenue going through our team's eCommerce web site.

Ingram Micro is seeking experienced software engineers who can leverage their skill-set to grow as part of an Agile SCRUM team.  They must be a quick learner and love challenging themselves to constantly raise the bar.  This opportunity requires strong problem-solving skills, an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication as they deliver efficient, well designed, and tested software for a positive user experience.  Innovative thinking and well-designed products with an emphasis on performance are a necessity to give our customers the best experience possible.

Your Role:

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools, and utilities.

• Determines systems software design requirements. Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.

• Generates systems software engineering policies, standards, and procedures.

• Manages large projects or processes.

• Limited oversight from manager.

• Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level professionals.

• Hands-on experience with the construction of complex engineering solutions and knowledge of software development methodologies

• Assumes end-to-end ownership of solutions as part of the Agile SCRUM team, which includes assisting in the development of testing automation and other key quality aspects.

• Partner with product owners and other Agile SCRUM team members to determine new features and user stories.

• Participate in code reviews to ensure that each increment adheres to the original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate.

• Assist in establishing and supporting coding standards

• Engage in all Agile ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstrations, and team retrospectives.

• Exhibits DevOps mindset where Agile SCRUM team is accountable for a product from inception to sunset.

• Respond to support incidents for production applications to make a quick repair to prevent application outages.

• Create and/or update the documentation to support development efforts. Documentation may include detailed specifications, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, and/or design documents.

• Share knowledge among members in the Agile SCRUM team

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and effective collaboration in a team-oriented environment.

• Attitude for learning new technologies and concepts.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize.

• Able to translate customer and business needs to technical solutions.

• Resilient to change.

• Establish User Personas in collaboration with Product Management

• Comfortable working with little to no supervision and providing supervision to associate engineers.

• Mentor and train other Software Engineers

• May be asked to participate in Quarterly Architecture Summits

• Take the lead on challenging software engineering projects.

• Be a resource for multiple challenging software engineering projects at a time.

• Coordinate with external teams/stakeholders.

• Maintain a holistic view of the project, never losing sight of the smaller details.

• Proficient in the following:

  • Unit testing as well as coding in Java , Python knowledge is good to have.

  • Good understanding of Cloud Architecture and hands on experience working with GCP.

  • Experience working with log management tool and APM tools like splunk, data dog etc.

  • Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis

  • Application of design patterns

  • Application of non-functional software qualities such as resilience, maintainability, etc.

  • Applying behavior-driven testing techniques

What you bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant science and math discipline with an IT emphasis is required.

• 10-15 + years of relevant technical experience, with at least 3 + years building Front End Solutions in eCommerce, or Master’s degree plus 4+ years of relevant experience

• Deep hands-on experience with Front-end technologies JSON, HTML, CSS and CSS pre-processing frameworks (Sass, Less or Stylus), JavaScript, JavaScript libraries (Jquery) or Web Components and other industry standard frameworks

• Hands-on experience in developing frontend solutions using languages: C#, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl or Node.js

• High proficiency in React, JQuery, Angular 2 JS, Boostrap, and Knockout JS

• Deep, hands-on experience with .NET Web development experience with C# /.NET4.x / MVC.

• Strong background in MS SQL Server, SQL Databases, and writing SQL stored procedures

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)

• Understanding of layout aesthetics

• Extensive experience with front end frameworks such as ASP.Net MVC, React, Angular, Vue, or Ember

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling (AJAX)

• Experience with RESTful APIs and MicroServices

• Experience with unit testing libraries such as Mocha, Jest, Chai, Enzyme

• Experience with code versioning tools (TFS, git) and process.

• Preferred to have knowledge on GCP(Google Cloud Platform) or any other cloud platform.

• Knowledge of SEO principles

• Strong interpersonal skills 

• Strong ability to collaborate and work across teams and disciplines 

• Strong software design and test methodology knowledge and abilities 

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written forms 

• Ability to understand and analyze complex problems and break them into small solvable pieces

• Ability to learn new tools, frameworks, technologies and platforms required experience  

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Good understanding of specifics of markup for modern browsers. 

• Familiarity Python is a plus

• Experience with test automation for Front-End (unit and integration test suites)

• Experience building system in GCP

• Experience with NodeJS

The ranges above reflect the potential annual base pay across the U.S. for all roles; the applicable base pay range will depend on the candidate’s primary work location, pay grade, and variable compensation plan. Individual base pay within each range depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time of hire. New hires starting base pay generally falls in the bottom half (between the minimum and midpoint) of a pay range.

At Ingram Micro certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus or sales incentives and long-term incentives. These awards are allocated based on position level and individual performance. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others.

This is not a complete listing of the job duties.  It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all these duties.

Please be prepared to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre-employment (post offer) background check.

Ingram Micro Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law.