Sysco LABS Sri Lanka

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 a Senior Technical Lead to join our team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and develop enterprise solutions for one of the world’s largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products.
Implement distributed and highly robust enterprise applications that scale for enterprise demands.
Architect and implement scalable software solutions and document design decisions.
Carry out detail technical designing of software solutions
Scope and break down user stories into clear and achievable technical tasks
Implement the technical design including coding, calling existing services, creating new components, etc.
Maintain a high standard of engineering quality through code reviews, unit tests and analytics.
Ensure engineering principles and related processes have been adhered to
Give constructive feedback to team members via code reviews and architectural reviews

REQUIREMENTS

A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, and 8+ years of experience developing production enterprise applications.
Extensive experience with the Java/Spring stack, along with hands-on knowledge on RESTful APIs, microservices, performance optimizations, enterprise integration principles and modern deployment strategies (containerization principles)
In-depth understanding of relational databases, schema design and SQL optimization. Knowledge on NoSQL databases would be an added advantage.
Familiarity with Linux based systems, DevOps practices and prior experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
Familiarity with data streaming concepts and related toolsets (Kafka, Apache Beam)
Familiarity with Elasticsearch and/or Apache Lucene will be an added advantage.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Familiarity with working in a Scrum Agile delivery environment.
Familiarity with Quality Engineering process and practices.
Knowledge of front-end development (React/Redux stack) would be an added advantage.

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