Software Engineer III (Senior Java Developer)

About PDI
For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to
changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your
world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based
solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the
back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI
solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge
is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the
entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver
measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum
wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and
scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a
broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher
profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500
customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites.

The Opportunity
Do you love building software that thrills your customers? Do you insist on the highest
standards for the software your team develops? Are you a progressive software engineer, an
advocate of agile development practices, and a proponent of continuous improvement? Well if
this is you, then join and energetic team of engineers building next generation development
applications for PDI!

You will play a key role in designing and building our market leading software products as we
drive to continuously increase our cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key
part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support PDI's enterprise software solutions. You
will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality,
performance, and maintainability of our products. You will be responsible for contributing to
an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (engineers,
architects, product owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of status and supported in their roles.
With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be
comfortable working in both Windows & Linux environments and learning a variety of
programming languages.

Primary Responsibilities
 Oversee and contribute to design decisions for new and existing application
development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome
obstacles
 Lead small and medium sized projects
 Guides and trains less experienced engineers
 Work with Architecture and DevOps teams to evaluate tools, process, and technologies.
 Partner with Product Management to consult on solution feasibility and high-level effort
estimation
 Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with
appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule
 Make recommendation for data model and framework improvement, analyzing trends,
patterns and best practices for software
 Actively develop software solutions for PDI products
 Perform testing to ensure systems meet documented user requirements
 Use a disciplined approach in an Agile environment to assist in analysis and
determination of preferred solutions to technical challenges
 Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and
maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions
 Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems
 Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development
and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test
plans
 Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work
 Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature
issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization.

Qualifications
 5-9 years’ experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software
applications in a software product development environment
 Proficiency required in all of the following: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL, JavaScript
Web Frameworks (e.g. Angular,React, Vue), Messaging Systems(Kafka, Active MQ)
 Familiarity with the Eclipse or IntelliJ IDE and the use of AWS Cloud Service, Jira, BitBucket
 1+ year of experience serving as a technical team lead preferred
 2+ years of practical experience with Agile development methodologies
 Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
 Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate
technical concepts into non-technical terms
 Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused
team
 Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
 Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
 Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as
well as through asking questions
 Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
 Computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithms
 Experience of NoSQL (Cassandra and/or Redis) and RDBMS(preferably Postgres)
databases
 Familiar with secure coding practices and OWASP TOP 10
 Familiar with developing containerized applications in the AWS Cloud
 Experience working with IDM provider(Auth0) is a plus.