Lead Software Engineering

Digital Products and Applications at PepsiCo

The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCos ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. The Digital Products & Applications team designs, builds, and stands up digital solutions across the value chain, that are embedded into business processes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI. Guided by PEPSICOs global priorities, the Digital Products & Applications team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research.

Lead Software Engineer

The Lead Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the cornerstone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCos value chain. This candidate will support the end-to-end software development experience and deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process.

The candidate in this role will provide technical oversight and direction to our software development team to ensure we deliver the best possible software solutions and ensure they are generating value through cost savings or incremental value. This candidate will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities.

Role Responsibilities:

1. Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and applications (DPA) across S&T core priorities
2. Hands-on development of in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit, BackEnd MicroServices, Serverless Computing and REST APIS
3. Partner with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
4. Support software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
5. Support expanding DPA capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
6. Help problem solve delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
7. Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Minimum of 5years of relevant software development and engineering management experience
• 3+years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• 3+ years of Hand on experience in Java and Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem, Python, and JUnit
• 2+ Backend Microservices, Serverless Computing, and Rest APIs
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, andobject-orienteddesign
• Proficiency in programming languages beyond C#, Java, C, or C++ (e.g., Ruby, Python, Perl)
• Experience with cloud platforms including Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, as well as cloud-specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience working with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience working with high throughput cloudnative distributedsystems
• Experience implementing and consuminglarge-scaleweb services
• Deep knowledge of design patterns
• Preferred experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React-Redux, or other front-end frameworks
• Preferred full-stack engineering experience

Qualities

• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
• Ability to run a large team of software engineers
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
• Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
• Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
• Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level