Principal Developer

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.

Do you like building modern digital applications? Do you geek out about cloud services and cloud application architecture? Ever wanted to be part of building and shaping the engineering culture in a product driven, user-centered-design organization? Well, this is your chance. Here at Southern Glazer’s, we are embarking on a bold journey to transform and revolutionize the ways in which digital technology is used in the beverage alcohol industry. We’ve assembled a world class group of product and technology leaders that are bringing this vision to life. To do this we need to build a best-in-class digital technology engineering organization. 

We are building a portfolio of web and mobile applications, as well as modernizing existing applications so that we can deliver software the business needs with speed, while maintaining and strengthening quality and security. To do this, we need you. We need software engineers that think like product managers. We need software engineers that obsess over observability and know how to take advantage of all that modern cloud platform like Azure and AWS have to offer. In short, we need people that are passionate about building high-performing digital experiences, who know what it takes to build products that surprise, delight and improve the lives of users.

As a Principal Developer, you will play a pivotal role in building and modernizing our web application projects, with a particular focus on creating dynamic, scalable, and responsive applications using React and micro-frontend architectures. You will help lead our web development strategy, advocating for best practices in frontend development, and ensuring our projects align with the latest industry standards and customer expectations.

Scope and Impact:

• Develop and guide multiple teams in adopting application patterns
• Lead the development and implementation of complex web applications, focusing on high-performance solutions using React and micro-frontend architectures.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the scope and quality of our web platforms and portfolios, ensuring they meet market demands and technological advancements.

Strategic Contribution:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align web application engineering with the overall business strategy, contributing to the roadmap and vision of our digital product portfolios and platforms.
• Advocate for the adoption of micro-frontend architectures to enhance modularity, scalability, and team autonomy in developing and managing sections of our web applications.

Delivery Responsibilities:

• Ensure timely and effective delivery of web applications, from ideation through to deployment and maintenance, adhering to budget, scope, and quality standards.
• Implement "shift-left" practices in the development lifecycle, emphasizing early integration of security, performance optimization, and user experience design.

Leadership Accountabilities:

• Mentor and guide junior developers in React best practices and the principles of micro-frontend architectures, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Lead by example in adopting agile methodologies, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure continuous improvement in processes and outputs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in web application development, with at least 3 years focused on React and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing micro-frontend architectures.
• Strong understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript) and experience with RESTful services and APIs.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to think strategically, and strong leadership qualities.
• Effective communication skills, capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Advanced React.js Knowledge: Expert-level understanding of React.js, its core principles, lifecycle, state management, hooks, and context API.
Micro-Frontend Architecture: Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing micro-frontend architectures, including module federation and dynamic module loading.
JavaScript Proficiency: Deep knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+), including understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
HTML5 & CSS3: Strong skills in creating responsive and adaptive designs using HTML5 and CSS3, including pre-processors like SASS or LESS.
State Management Tools: Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) and their integration with React applications.
Testing Frameworks: Familiarity with testing frameworks and libraries such as Jest, Enzyme, or React Testing Library, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing practices.
Build Tools: Proficiency in using build tools like Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel for bundling and optimizing web applications.
Version Control: Extensive experience with version control systems, particularly Git, including branching strategies and collaborative development workflows.
RESTful APIs: Experience with consuming RESTful services and APIs, understanding the principles of REST, and experience with GraphQL is a plus.
CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices, including familiarity with tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
Containerization Technologies: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration of web applications.
Cloud Services: Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their services related to web hosting, storage, and scalability.
Performance Optimization: Skills in web performance optimization, understanding how to analyze and improve page speed and application responsiveness.
Security Practices: Knowledge of web security practices, including understanding of cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and how to secure React applications.
Agile Methodologies: Experience working in agile development environments, with a solid understanding of agile principles, practices, and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.

• 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

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. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. 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.