Lead Developer, IT Store Sys

Overall Job Summary

This position is responsible for creating, designing, and supporting software running on various platforms used in Tractor Supply stores as well as gathering requirements, developing prototypes, and assisting in setting project scope.  Additional responsibilities include directing technical work, leading projects, and mentoring team members. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)

• Meet with technical leads, architects and vendor partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify and resolve system issues, ensure the system is implemented as designed and in adherence to the implementation guidelines.  
• Partner with the business analysts to review and refine business requirements into core system capabilities.   
• Assist developers, analysts, and designers in conceptualizing and validating solutions that meet business requirements.  
• Prototype new requirements for the purpose of enhancing technical functionalities and information process flow. 
• Develop and/or configure, build, review and unit test software/solutions. 
•  Assists in QA efforts on tasks worked by providing input for test cases and supporting test case execution. 
• Work directly with the business users to provide support including the design and development of customer training materials, and conducting customer training sessions. 
• Mentor team members on new technologies in area of expertise. 
• Work with Enterprise team to ensure changes are properly documented, communicated, audited, and deployed in compliance with established procedures. 
• Provide 24x7 rotational technical support to solve business problems and document resolution

Required Qualifications

Experience: 

• 10+ years’ experience with Java and JEE technologies, and Oracle (such as SQL and PL/SQL); Agile development experience is a strong plus. 
• 5+ years’ experience working within Unix/Linux. 
• 5+ years’ experience with web service technologies (REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, XML/XSLT, etc.) is preferred. 

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science or software engineering from an accredited college or university.  Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.
 

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

• Advanced technical and analytical ability in any programming language (Java is preferred). 
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases (Oracle preferred). 
• Advanced knowledge of portal technologies (Liferay and Oracle preferred). 
• Advanced knowledge of Unix like operating systems (Linux preferred). 
• Advanced knowledge of development tools such as Ant, Maven, Eclipse, and JUnit. 
• Advanced knowledge of version control systems such as subversion and Git. 
• Advanced knowledge of standard Java debugging tools such as VisualVM, jmap, jstack, etc. 
• Advanced knowledge and experience implementing design patterns, especially model-view-controller, inversion of control, and dependency injection. 
• Advanced knowledge of Java web technologies such as Servlets, JavaBeans, JSTL, and JSP is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge of web and application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat and Apache httpd is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge XML technologies: XML, Schemas, SAX, DOM, XSLT, XQuery, XMLBeans, JDOM, XHTML, AJAX is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge of presentation layer technologies such as JSON, JavaScript, HTML, JSF, JQuery is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge of continuous integration concept and tools is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge automated testing tools such as JMeter and Grinder is preferred. 
• Advanced knowledge of wired and wireless store hardware devices (e.g. registers, receipt printers, pin pads, scanners, RF guns) and C-based drivers that work with them is preferred. 

Working Conditions

Physical Requirements

Disclaimer

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position.  It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities.  A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.

Company Info

At Tractor Supply and Petsense by Tractor Supply, our Team Members are the heart of our success. Their dedication, passion, and hard work drive everything we do, and we are committed to supporting them with a comprehensive and accessible total reward package. We understand the evolving needs of our Team Members and their families, and we strive to offer meaningful, competitive, and sustainable benefits that support their well-being today and in the future.

Our benefits extend beyond medical, dental, and vision coverage, including company-paid life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and family planning resources such as adoption and surrogacy assistance, for all full-time Team Members and all part-time Team Members. Part time new hires gain eligibility for TSC Benefits by averaging at least 15 hours per week during their 90-day lookback period. The lookback period starts the first of the month following the date of hire. If the 15-hour requirement was met, the benefits eligibility date will be the first day of the month following 4 months of continuous service.

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