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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.

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