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　　(Location - onsite Framingham MA required)

　　At Staples our Digital Solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, Agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners, and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services. If you want to be on the front lines, driving one of the greatest technology transformations of the 21st Century, you should join our team!

　　Staples’ Order Management and Supply Chain Systems team enables scalable, efficient, and intelligent order and delivery solutions, and exceptional customer experience through our expertise in business domains and technologies. We are currently taking a platform re-engineering approach to consolidate, modernize, and simplify legacy applications by standardizing interfaces, building micro-services, and/or integrating with 3rd party software that’ll effectively reduce tech debt and vendor footprint, and improve time to market and service levels.

　　What you’ll be doing:

　　We are looking for dedicated principal engineer to help reimagine our systems from the ground up. We need talented people to help design the next generation of technology applications. You are hands-on and will be developing vehicle routing algorithms producing high-level architecture designs, building, and operating services at scale. You will be partnering with a team Software/Data/ML/Applied engineers for building high performing applications that interact with large scale distributed systems.

　　Qualifications :

　　What’s needed- Basic Qualifications

　　BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related field (MS/PhD preferred)

　　10+ years of professional software engineering experience

　　Solid programming skills in Enterprise Java frameworks implementing microservices and applying object-oriented principles for application design. 

　　Prior experience developing constraint solvers.

　　Prior experience developing solutions based on existing open-source VRP framework.

　　Strong diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

　　Experience building applications on one or more public Cloud Platform (e.g. Azure, AWS)

　　Knowledge of professional software engineering practices throughout the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

　　Experience in participation in all phases of software development including concept, design, prototyping, and production release.

　　Experience in working in teams in a DevOps culture.

　　Qualifications :

　　Qualifications :

　　What’s needed- Basic Qualifications

　　BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related field (MS/PhD preferred)

　　10+ years of professional software engineering experience

　　Solid programming skills in Enterprise Java frameworks implementing microservices and applying object-oriented principles for application design. 

　　Prior experience developing constraint solvers.

　　Prior experience developing solutions based on existing open-source VRP framework.

　　Strong diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

　　Experience building applications on one or more public Cloud Platform (e.g. Azure, AWS)

　　Knowledge of professional software engineering practices throughout the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

　　Experience in participation in all phases of software development including concept, design, prototyping, and production release.

　　Experience in working in teams in a DevOps culture.

　　What’s needed- Preferred Qualifications

　　Expertise developing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with low latency and high throughput requirements in public Cloud.

　　Subscribe to fast-paced Agile principles with technical designs, iterative development, code reviews, and ability to quickly leverage a wide variety of upstream open-source development.

　　Keen attention to detail, ability to dive deep, and expert problem-solving skills .

　　Excellent verbal and written communication skills

　　Technology stack: Java 8+, Spring Boot, Oracle, MySql, Postgres, Kafka, Couchbase, Apache Spark, Netflix OSS, Linux, Microsoft Azure

　　We Offer:

　　Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more perks and benefits (https://careers.staples.com/Staples-Life/Benefits)Interested in joining the team? Check out our perks and benefits !

　　Staples believes Inclusion is a verb and we encourage diversity of thinking and ideas as well as backgrounds and experiences. Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.