Retail Application Lead

Retail Application Lead

Location: San Ramon, CA
Work Model: Onsite 5 Days/Week
Employment Type: Long-Term Contract
Work Authorization: Any valid work authorization

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Retail Application Lead to design, build, and deliver critical retail store systems supporting in-store and omnichannel experiences.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for store-facing applications including POS, omnichannel order fulfillment, inventory receiving, integrations, and international store expansion. The ideal candidate combines deep retail-domain knowledge with strong software engineering and system-design expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and implementation of POS, inventory receiving, and omnichannel fulfillment solutions.
• Support Ship-from-Store, BOPIS, cancellations, returns, and other store fulfillment workflows.
• Establish architecture, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Develop applications using Java, Python, Node.js, and React.
• Design integrations with Shopify, ERP, OMS, loyalty platforms, and third-party systems.
• Support international store expansion, localization, taxation, and regional compliance.
• Design event-driven and distributed solutions using Kafka.
• Build monitoring and observability using Splunk and New Relic.
• Own production reliability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational improvements.
• Implement CI/CD, testing, release management, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and design discussions.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong retail systems and omnichannel commerce experience.
• Hands-on experience with POS, inventory receiving, and order fulfillment.
• Strong Java, Python, Node.js, Spring, and React experience.
• Shopify and retail-platform integration experience.
• Oracle DB, MySQL, and DynamoDB.
• Kafka and event-driven architecture.
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, SAM, GitHub.
• Splunk and New Relic.
• Understanding of payments, settlement, taxation, and international retail compliance.

ATS Keywords: Retail Applications, POS, Omnichannel, Java, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, Shopify, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, BOPIS, Ship-from-Store, Inventory, OMS.