Staff Engineer Software [T500-29318]

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.

Position Title: Staff Software Engineer

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

Experience Range:

9 - 12 years

Roles & responsibilities:

• Writes production code daily, conducts code reviews, and works continuously on code quality, testability, and maintainability improvements across the team
• Performs advanced development, support, and implementation of complex systems using specialized domain knowledge and highly developed business expertise
• Partners with Architects on low-level design — translating target-state architecture and reference patterns into detailed component designs, interface contracts, and implementation plans
• Leads large projects and programs with limited or no oversight, from design through production deployment and stabilization
• Evaluates business and software industry trends and suggests improvements to processes, products, and services
• Proposes and champions new ideas, technologies, and process improvements that enhance the development process and product quality; runs POCs to substantiate the case
• Sets standards to deliver high-quality products and services, and sets high standards for self and others
• Backend: builds Java microservices and REST APIs with Spring Boot — service decomposition, API design and versioning, resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers), and secure-by-default implementation
• Frontend: builds and owns ReactJS / AngularJS applications — component architecture, state management, SPA and SSR rendering strategy, accessibility, and Core Web Vitals performance; owns the API-to-UI contract
• Integration: designs and implements event-driven flows with Kafka and JMS / ActiveMQ — partitioning and consumer design, idempotency, retry and dead-letter strategy, replay, and reconciliation
• Data: models and tunes relational and NoSQL stores for access patterns — indexing, query profiling, sharding and partition keys, caching strategy, and schema migration without downtime
• Cloud & Delivery builds and operates cloud-native services on Azure or GCP within the established landing zone — containerized with Docker and Kubernetes, delivered through CI/CD with automated test, quality, and security gates
• Quality: owns the automated testing strategy for their areas across the pyramid — JUnit / TestNG and Mockito, Rest-Assured or Karate for APIs, Jest for components, and Selenium / Playwright / Cucumber for end-to-end …