Senior Lead Engineer

Role Summary As a Lead Engineer, you will design, build, and support critical integrations and applications across SOMS domain. You will contribute hands-on development expertise in Java, Spring Framework, and cloud technologies (Azure/GCP) while ensuring scalability, compliance, and performance. You will work in a hybrid team model (onshore + offshore), collaborating with OMS SMEs, Enterprise architects, and contractors to deliver high-quality solutions that enable Easy experience for Staples Business customers. Duties & Responsibilities · Design, build, and maintain distributed and scalable backend services to support business-critical feature. · Collaborate with DevOps, product, and other engineering teams to define requirements and deliver long-lasting technical solutions. · Optimize system latency, throughput, and resource usage to support high performance under variable loads. · Address technical debt by refactoring code and infrastructure and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends. · Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams. · Develop comprehensive test plans and maintain automated test suites to ensure software robustness and minimize regressions. Requirements Basic Qualifications · 9–12 years of progressive software engineering experience, with strong experience leading the design and development of enterprise applications. · Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java or Python. · Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices using the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data Stream. · Strong technical leadership in architecting highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems in cloud environments. · Proven experience leading OMS or e-commerce platform development, including order capture, orchestration, fulfillment, inventory, cancelations, returns, substitutions, and exception handling. · Ability to translate business, operations, and supply chain requirements into scalable technical solutions and system designs. · Experience working in Agile environments, contributing to technical planning, iterative delivery, and thorough code/design reviews. · Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and production readiness. · Hands-on experience with distributed databases such as Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, or MongoDB. · Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. · Experience with distributed caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached, or Hazelcast to improve system performance. · Strong experience with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging platforms such as Azure Event Hub, Apache Kafka, or Solace. · Experience designing and optimizing batch and streaming data pipelines to support enterprise-scale analytics and operational processing. · Proficiency using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and code management; familiarity with tools such as GitHub Copilot is a plus. · Strong API development skills, including the design, implementation, documentation, and versioning of RESTful, GraphQL, or SOAP APIs, with authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth and JWT. · Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API specifications, design documents, and operational runbooks Preferred Qualifications · Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies. · Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure and GCP. · Experience leading engineers in a complex retail or OMS environment. · Strong mentoring skills with the ability to guide engineers through design, implementation, and problem-solving. · Experience owning production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and system stability improvements. · Strong collaboration skills with product, architecture, QA, support, operations, and business stakeholders. · Experience driving platform modernization, legacy system migration, or large-scale system integration initiatives. · Ability to influence engineering standards, promote best practices, and raise the technical maturity of the team.