Software Engineer Lead

Description

 About Dataworks

Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges. 

We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by: 

• Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems 
• Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight 
• Building and iterating on solutions that generate value 
• Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance 

At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone. 

Job Summary

Provide leadership and initiative in the overall coordination of designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs highly complex software programs for enhancements and new products. Responsible for highly complex concept design through the full development life cycle. Prepares and conducts systems programming test requiring interfacing and software tests. Coaches others in less senior positions.

Drive initiatives across internal and offshore teams within the Line Haul Air department. Fully remote. CST time zone preferred. On-call one week per month.

Responsibilities

• Perform code reviews, developer testing and debugging for all features of the project
• Design and document new/existing software solutions using diagrams, flow charts, dashboards, and reports
• Conduct proof-of-concepts using new software tools/libraries, programming techniques, and emerging concepts to identify areas for advancement of the project
• Coordinate with the development team(s) to increase collaboration and productivity, reducing dependencies where possible
• Coordinate with the product and engineering managers to provide technical details and status updates for new/existing features
• Provide technical instructions and assist with the prioritization of work items across numerous agile ceremonies (sprint planning, story grooming, bug triage etc.), while maintaining InfoSec compliance requirements for open-source software, code quality, bugs and vulnerabilities.

Additional Job Details

• New development (90%)
• Production support (10%)
• Coding (50%)
• Design/Architecture (20%)
• Code reviews (15%)
• Project management (10%)
• Coaching and mentoring (5%)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 6-7 yrs experience in API development using Spring Boot
• 2-3 yrs experience with modern JavaScript UI ecosystem, including Angular and React
• 3-5 yrs experience with streaming frameworks (Kafka or similar) 
• Experience in UI and API development to expose the data insights generated from AI/ML data models and pipelines.
• Experience in developing the microservices for APIs using Spring Boot, Python, and Kotlin, and Integrate UI with JSON APIs and other distributed systems.
• Experience with responsive layouts, CSS grid frameworks and CSS preprocessors.
• Experience in driving the software development lifecycle including the modern testing strategy and virtualized data strategy for autonomous component testing.
• Experience in enabling the product for operational visibility through proper instrumentation like Dynatrace, App Dynamics and Azure App Insights etc.
• Experience/knowledge in containerization (Kubernetes) and infrastructure as a code (terraform).
• An ‘engineering’ mindset, willing to make rapid, pragmatic decisions to improve performance, accelerate progress or magnify impact.

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

Five (5) to Seven (7) years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Domicile Information

This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.

Preferred Qualifications:  

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay: US Pay Range Monthly $10,667 -16,000

Additional Details: Application Criteria: Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by 12/10/24

FedEx Dataworks is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact DataworksTalentAcquisition@corp.ds.fedex.com.