Lead Software Engineer - Commerce Web

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix.

Become a part of the Commerce Ordering team! As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in eliciting requirements, collaborate with architects and technical leads to drive technology solutions, and serve as a technical liaison for commerce-web team. Additionally, you will serve a key role in mentoring and developing the engineering team.

Location: Flexible Hybrid

Work Model

Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

Why Join Us?

• Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you need to focus time and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.
• Cutting-Edge AI Projects: Drive innovation in AI platforms, integrating advanced tools and frameworks to solve complex business challenges.
• Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

• Participate in cross-functional project teams to perform expert level development, debugging and technical support for technical solutions within the product portfolio along with facilitating and conducting technical knowledge transfers and code reviews
• Gather and document business requirements for new functionality and application enhancements
• Lead and coordinate technical design for complex technology solutions under limited guidance
• Monitor Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) workloads to identify potential bottlenecks, infrastructure, or performance concerns.
• Collaborate with architects and technical leads on technology strategy
• Partner with business analysts and product owners to align requirements, remove roadblocks, and ensure goals are met
• Complete project management activities, including development of project plans, monitoring project performance, and building implementation plans
• Coach, guide, and mentor software engineers with complex technical tasks
• Work with business systems analysts, product owners, business areas, and technical experts to implement secure and compliant technical solutions
• Serve as the technical liaison to the business areas and other technical teams in all aspects of the application, including after-hours support on an as needed basis

• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, Computer Science, Business, or other analytical disciplines or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of IT experience delivering enterprise applications (design, development, and end-to-end delivery), with a proven track record leading complex, cross-team initiatives
• 5+ years of expert-level proficiency in .NET and C# (including .NET 8+), with deep experience in ASP.NET Core, Web API, and MVC, and a strong grounding in OOP, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL, database design, and the use of ORM frameworks (such as Dapper or Entity Framework) to develop efficient and scalable across data stores such as Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Azure Cosmos DB
• 5+ years of experience with containerization technologies, preferably AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, or Blazor) integrated with backend APIs

• Experience with Agile/Scrum environments collaborating closely with Product Owners and Scrum Masters
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills; proven ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement
• Experience in AKS monitoring tools and processes to ensure health, performance, and scalability of containers applications.
• Experience using logging and diagnostic tools in Azure to discover, diagnose, and solve problems.
• Experience building highly scalable systems and performance tuning them.
• Regular use of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture for enterprise-scale solutions

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans plan
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: https://jobs-beta.publix.com/benefits/

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours. Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.