About Albertsons Companies Inc. (ACI):

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers’ problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons India Capability Center:

At Albertsons India Capability Center, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.

At the Albertsons India Capability Center, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer.

At Albertsons India Capability

Center, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

We are excited to announce an opening for Senior Engineer Software at ACI. Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.

Skills Required:

Java (11 / 17+), Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, OOAD, Java EE, ReactJS, JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML5, CSS / SCSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, AJAX, NodeJS, Responsive & Mobile-First Design, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, NoSQL, Redis / Varnish Caching, Apache Kafka, JMS / ActiveMQ, Event-Driven Basics, Cloud (Azure / GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps), Git, Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty, JUnit / TestNG, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, Jest, Rest-Assured, Karate, Appium / Espresso, Observability & Logging, JVM Basics, Design Patterns, Agile, GitHub Copilot

Experience Range:

6 - 9 years

Position Title : Senior Engineer Software (T07)

Function:

Roles & responsibilities:

- Writes production code daily and conducts code reviews, holding a consistent quality bar across the team
- Evaluates complex user requests and projects, and clarifies objectives and functional requirements for new or modified programs before building
- Designs and develops software and business process solutions based on business needs, using specialized domain knowledge and developed business expertise
- Improves and sustains existing systems and services,



reducing defects and technical debt as well as adding capability
- Conducts and prepares feasibility studies for new and existing applications, and makes decisions within general parameters with little supervision
- Demonstrates and models the standards that deliver high-quality products and services, and guides more junior engineers in meeting them
- Focuses on quality in all aspects of work — follows established standards of excellence and continues to improve them rather than simply complying
- Backend: builds Java microservices and REST APIs with Spring Boot — clean layering, input validation, error handling, pagination and versioning, and secure-by-default endpoints
- Frontend: builds ReactJS applications — component architecture, state management, form and validation handling, accessibility basics, and responsive, mobile-first layouts
- Data: writes and tunes SQL and NoSQL queries, designs schemas and indexes for the access patterns in use, and handles migrations safely
- Integration: consumes and produces events and messages (Kafka, JMS / ActiveMQ), implementing retries, idempotency, and sensible error and dead-letter handling under guidance
- Cloud & Delivery: packages services with Docker, deploys to Kubernetes, and maintains CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps with automated test and quality gates
- Quality: owns testing for their own work across the pyramid — JUnit / TestNG and Mockito, Rest-Assured or Karate for APIs, Jest for components, and Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber for end-to-end
- Production: supports what they build with an SRE mindset — structured logging, metrics and tracing, alert triage, debugging live issues, and participating in on-call
- Understands client and stakeholder expectations, and recognizes and escalates issues that may affect delivery early rather than late
- Participates in the hiring process — submitting referrals, meeting candidates, attending recruiting events, presenting externally, or writing blogs
- Contributes to team activities and collaborates across teams and domains to solve problems

Experience Required:

- 6 – 9 years as a full-stack developer across Java, web, and mobile development technologies
- 6+ years programming experience in OOAD, Java / Java EE, web technologies, and REST APIs
- Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot building microservices, and a solid grasp of dependency injection, configuration, and application lifecycle
- Specialized knowledge of application servers — Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty — and how to configure and troubleshoot them
- Specialized knowledge of database technologies including relational (Oracle, Azure SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), with experience in data synchronization and offline storage for mobile
- Specialized knowledge in UI / Web 2.0 development — JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, SCSS, HTML5, AJAX, jQuery, NodeJS, ReactJS,



AngularJS — including responsive and mobile-first design principles
- Solid expertise in design patterns, with a solid foundation in building scalable and maintainable applications across web and mobile platforms
- Working knowledge of caching — Redis or Varnish, cache-aside patterns, TTL and invalidation — and of why and where to apply it
- Exposure to event-driven development with Kafka or JMS / ActiveMQ, including message handling, retries, and idempotency
- 2+ years with cloud platform services and application development using Microsoft Azure or GCP
- Experience with containerization and orchestration — Docker and/or Kubernetes — is a strong plus
- Specialized knowledge of CI/CD processes using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps, and confident daily use of Git and pull-request workflows
- Specialized knowledge of automated unit testing with JUnit / TestNG and Jest, and automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, Rest-Assured, and Karate; plus, mobile testing tools such as Appium or Espresso
- Working knowledge of application performance — profiling a slow endpoint, reading a stack trace or thread dump, spotting an N+1 query, and understanding JVM memory basics
- Familiarity with observability practice — structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing — and the ability to debug a production issue from them
- Specialized knowledge of the full software development lifecycle and of Agile methodologies
- Ability to understand client and stakeholder expectations, and to recognize and escalate issues that may affect delivery
- Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted development tools

Competencies:

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

Mandatory Skills Required:

- Programming Languages: Java (11 / 17+), JavaScript / TypeScript
- Backend & Frameworks: Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, OOAD
- Frontend: ReactJS, HTML5, CSS / SCSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, responsive design
- SQL Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Azure SQL Server Any of these
- NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, Cassandra Any of these
- Caching: Redis or Varnish — cache-aside, TTL and invalidation
- Cloud: Azure or GCP — hands-on application development
- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps, Git and pull-request workflow
- Automation Testing: JUnit / TestNG, Jest, Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber, Rest-Assured / Karate
- Application Servers: Tomcat, Apache Jetty, Reactor Netty
- Domain: Retail 3- retail, 2 non retail is fine

📌 Senior Engineer Software-29321] (Bengaluru)
🏢 Albertsons Companies India
📍 Bengaluru