**Compensation Range :** 145K - 165K **Staples is business to business. Youre what binds us together.** At Staples our Digital Solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, Agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners, and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services. If you want to be on the front lines, driving one of the greatest technology transformations of the 21st Century, you should join our team! Staples Order Lifecycle Systems team enables scalable, efficient, and intelligent order and delivery solutions, and exceptional customer experience through our expertise in business domains and technologies. We are seeking a Lead Java Software Engineer to **drive transformation at Staples Transportation** . This individual will work with technical teams to build and maintain a scalable platform for Staples Transportation Network. If you are Customer-Centric, Results-Focused, and Innovative you will love it here! **Your Role** As a Lead Software engineer, you will design and develop our **new Last Mile Platform** from the ground up. You will apply distributed computing to design and implement system architectures that are highly scalable, highly available and fully fault tolerant. You will collaborate with cross functional teams working with cutting edge technologies. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about applying technology to delight customers and improving business outcomes. **What youll be doing:** + Design algorithms and develop applications in areas of transportation systems + Designing scalable architecture systems for **Java** -based applications. + Utilize and promote cloud-first approach, event driven architecture. + Develop distributed services utilizing components from public cloud + Participate in the entire SaaS life cycle applying best practices that drive agility and quality + Work closely with product management and program management to derive application requirements, set expectations, and communicate progress + Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback. + Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality. + Adopt to fast-paced iterative development, ci/cd, testing and deployment. + Troubleshooting design flaws and system bottlenecks. **Qualifications :** **Whats needed- Basic Qualifications** Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 7+ years of relevant industry experience Lead level expertise exercising technical influence on a team of engineers through requirements, architecture, and design **Expert programming skills in Enterprise Java frameworks** implementing microservices and applying object-oriented principles for application design Understanding of operating distributed data systems at scale such as event-driven solutions, lambda services and so on. Expertise building scalable implementations with modern data processing frameworks and relational databases Knowledge of professional software engineering practices throughout the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. **Whats needed- Preferred Qualifications** + Expertise architecting and developing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with low latency and high throughput requirements in public Cloud + Subscribe to fast-paced Agile principles with technical designs, iterative development, code reviews, and ability to quickly leverage a wide variety of upstream open-source development + Keen attention to detail, ability to dive deep, and expert problem-solving skills + Excellent verbal and written communication skills + Technology stack: Java 8+, Spring Boot, Oracle, MySql, Postgres, Kafka, Couchbase, Apache Spark, Netflix OSS, Linux, **Microsoft Azure** **We Offer:** + Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups and resources such as the Social Justice Resource Center + Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more perks and benefits _Interested in joining the team? Check out our_ _perks and benefits_ _!_ _Staples believes Inclusion is a verb and we encourage diversity of thinking and ideas as well as backgrounds and experiences. Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law._