THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion.
Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries.
Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.
Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for an Associate Technical Lead – Front End to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- The design and development of enterprise solutions for one of the world’s largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products
- Working with and formally managing a tight-knit agile team developing robust web-based enterprise solutions
- Adhering to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of solutions
- Ensuring high code quality by following software engineering best practices
- Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team in an Agile delivery environment
- Adhering to DevOps principles and being involved in projects throughout their full software lifecycle – from development, QA, deployment, to post-production support
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 4 + years of experience developing production enterprise applications
- Previous experience being a team leader and a formal manager of subordinates is required
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with the React/Redux stack, with good industrial experience
- Excellent understanding of client-side state management, asynchronous programming and efficient browser resource management
- A proficient understanding of other complementary front-end technologies, such as HTML and CSS
- An excellent understanding of coding best practices, unit/integration testing, API design and integration
- Familiarity with API (REST, Graph) usage/best practices and a general understanding of backend technologies, datastore management, microservices will be required
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and experience working with Cloud providers such as AWS along with the understanding of container technologies
- Familiarity with working in a Scrum Agile delivery environment
- Familiarity with Quality Engineering process and practices
- Familiarity with working on Linux platforms
BENEFITS
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
