What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Sr Developer’s role is to develop and enhance in-house software applications or extensions by coding with a technical language to meet business requirements and business objectives. This can include taking technical specifications and developing an application or integration of data between applications, testing, as well as, completing the appropriate technical documentation. The developer may also be responsible for delivering support to end-users in the organization for specific code, including troubleshooting code.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

• Expert understanding of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
• Expert understanding of jQuery (including creating custom plugins)
• Expert understanding of ReactJS
• Expert understanding of Implementing Analytics tagging
• Expert understanding of ADA compliance & remediation
• Experience with React Native a plus
• Strong understanding of TypeScript
• Must have experience with GraphQL (Both server side & Client side)
• Must have experience with Node.js
• Must have experience with Express.js
• o Hosting
• o API development (REST & Micro Services)
• o Server-Side Rendering
• Experience with Knex is a plus
• Experience writing JavaScript unit tests
• Must have experience in project setup & configuration with Webpack, Babel, Lint (jslint, prettier, etc) setup & configuration
• Must have a good understanding of Git and continuous integration
• Must have experience implementing JWT Tokens & OAuth
• Strong understanding of modern best practices
• Experience with security best practices & OWASP 10
• Experience with Cloud Native (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus
• Willingness to guide/help/mentor more junior members
• Proven experience as a Front-End Developer or equivalent role
• Must have excellent attention to detail
• Must be a strong team-player with ability to work in SAFE Agile teams
• Experience working in Agile
• Experience working in agile project management tools (Jira, Version One, etc)

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve in a team leader capacity with large-scale Application Development projects/programs
• Drive technical validity of the solution
• Coordinate issues resolution activities with varied stakeholders
• Drive the development of business and technical process documentation and training materials
• Review entire problem logs, identify recurring problems, and complete steps for long-term resolution
• Provide coaching and development to more junior Application Developers
• Coordinate the work of 3rd party development teams
• Participate in Agile teams
• Drive Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or a combination of work experience and education
• Two (2)+ years in application development or comparable experience
• Experience developing and supporting production applications including limited experience coordinating and leading development teams/projects
• Experience working in large complex technology projects including those with offshore teams
• Strong team player with the ability to work with multiple stakeholders across a variety of functions as well as able to work independently
• Excellence in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical, mathematic, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to develop and manage an action plan including strong attention to detail
• Ability to demonstrate the Agile delivery values of Openness, Commitment, Respect, Courage, and Focus

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.