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Director, Software Engineering
7-Eleven
Irving, TX, United States
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Overview
▶Who we are
Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement andinnovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.
As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 67,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.
But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.
At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.
Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.
▶Howwe lead
At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.
1. Be Customer Obsessed
2. Be Courageous with Your Point of View
3. Challenge the Status Quo
4. Act Like an Entrepreneur
5. Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
6. Do the Right Thing
7. Be Accountable
Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.
Responsibilities
▶About the opportunity
Are you a master of disruption who is seeking to break the barriers of the linear equation? We are looking for a results-oriented tech leader who is interested in building and leading software teams. This is unique opportunity to re-imagine the retail QSR system. You will be part of creating history in the retail and restaurant space at 7-Eleven. This position requires out of the box thinking to create and design retail systems of the future. Bring your insatiable hunger for learning and challenge status quo, everyday!
If you fit this description, we want you to be part of our mission to work fearlessly to build innovative solutions, platforms and business applications that redefine convenience.
Our current development stack leverages all cloud technologies to C++, Java, React Native, NodeJS, SQL and NO SQL
What you will get is team environment to express your boldest ideas and implement them. We are like team of hackers here, breaking and challenging everything. We operate like a start-up. We create self-healing, fault tolerant software to run on unreliable commodity hardware.
As a Director of Software Development for acquisition integration, you will be a part of the larger technical leadership community within 7-Eleven. Along with your peers, you will play a key role in business planning, working closely with executives to develop product goals and resource requirements, and influence long-term product strategy.
• Be a part of an open and fun and customer obsessed culture.
• Lead and collaborate with a team of diverse thinkers.
• Participate in planning and architectural discussions.
• Work closely with cross-functional team members including product and project management to ensure high quality, on time software product delivery
• Drive innovative, mission-critical design and architecture using log streams and micro-services
• Support Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of use cases and solutions partnering with all relevant stakeholders
Qualifications
Skills, Experience, & Qualifications:
• A “can do” attitude.
• Hands-on technical leadership.
• At least ten years of hands-on software development experience in building highly scalable high availably systems.
• Desire to learn and apply new technologies.
• Creative thinking and ability to share new ideas to advance or create objectives.
• Bachelor’s Degree strongly preferred, advanced degree would also be desired.