Senior Engineer Software

Position Title: Senior Engineer Software

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the Agentic Commerce strategy, aligning with company goals.
• Identify and capitalize on emerging AI trends in automated shopping, voice commerce, and personalized digital assistants.
• Partner with executive leadership to integrate AI-driven commerce into the companys long-term vision.
• Work closely with AI, data science, and engineering teams to build intelligent shopping agents that enhance user experiences.
• Oversee development of predictive, proactive, and personalized AI shopping assistants.
• Drive adoption of LLMs (Large Language Models), machine learning algorithms, and reinforcement learning for optimizing commerce transactions.
• Ensure data privacy, security, and ethical AI considerations are embedded in product development.
• Lead efforts to create hyper-personalized, AI-driven shopping experiences that anticipate and fulfill customer needs.
• Leverage real-time data, behavioral analytics, and AI decision-making to improve conversion rates.
• Champion a customer-first approach, ensuring seamless, frictionless transactions across digital platforms.
• Hands on code writing and doing code reviews
• Evaluates complex user requests, projects, and clarifies objectives and functional requirements for new or modified computer programs
• Designs / develops software solutions and business process solutions based on business needs and requirements using specialized domain knowledge and developed business expertise
• Conducts and prepares feasibility studies for new applications and/or existing ones and makes decisions within general parameters under little supervisions
• Demonstrates standards to deliver high-quality products and services, models adherence to quality standards for more junior employees
• Focus on quality in all aspects of work; Follows established standards of excellence and also continues to strive on improving them.
• Participates in the hiring process (by submitting referrals, meeting candidates, attending recruiting events, presenting externally, writing blogs) Contributes to team activities and collaborates within all teams within/across domains to solve problems.
• Has deeper understanding of quality standards and guides others

Experience Required:

• Deep understanding of agentic AI, LLMs, and intelligent commerce systems.
• Proven track record of leading AI-driven digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with AI/ML models, personalization engines, and automation tools.
• 6-9 years of experience as a Full Stack developer in Java/Web developement technologies.
• 6+ years of programming experience (OOAD, Java EE, Web Technologies, REST APIs).
• Specialized knowledge with application servers such as such as Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty etc.,
• Specialized knowledge with database technologies - Relational databases (such as Oracle, Azure SQL Server, Postgres SQL) and/or NoSQL (such as MongoDB or Cassandra) databases.
• Specialized knowledge in UI/Web 2.0 Development (JavaScript, CSS, SCSS, HTML5, AJAX, jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS, AngularJS) and working with Git and/or relevant source code repositories.
• Strong expertise in design patterns, with a solid foundation in building scalable and maintainable applications
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with cloud platform services and application development using Microsoft Azure or GCP or AWS.
• Knowledge in GitHub Co-Pilot or similar tools.
• Specialized knowledge with the full software development lifecycle.
• Specialized knowledge of automated unit testing with tools like JUnit/TestNG and test automation frameworks such as Selenium/Playwright/Cucumber/Res-Assured/Karate
• Specialized knowledge with software development methodologies (Agile).
• Ability to understand clients/stakeholder expectations and recognize and escalate issues that may affect delivery
• Specialized knowledge in CI/CD (Jenkins or GitHub actions).
• Docker and/or Kubernetes experience is a big plus

Competencies:

• Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect
• They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.
• Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal/business ethics.
• Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions
• Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.
• Learning-Focused, finding ways to improvise in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally
• Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work
• Retail Domain Experience is required
• Experienced in mentoring development teams
• Hands-on experience in production environments with an SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset

Mandatory Skills Required:

• Experience with building AI agents and RAG
• Typescript or Python
• Node.js/Java Reactive (Springboot)
• NOSQL DB (MongoDB / Cassandra)
• AngularJS / ReactJS
• Event Streaming (Kafka or similar)
• Automation Testing (Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber)

Additional Desirable Skills:

• Design Pattern / Solutioning / Problem Solving
• GraphQL APIs
• GitHub Copilot or similar
• Cloud Platform (Azure / GCP / AWS)