Job description

Our Order Management System (OMS) is the platform behind how AutoZone fulfills orders across eCommerce (B2C, B2B) and in-store channels — processing millions of orders a year and growing. We're looking for a Lead Systems Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across OMS: designing and building cloud-native services, setting technical direction for a team of engineers, and driving the modernization of legacy integrations (Mainframe, Talend, EDI). This is a player-coach role. You'll spend real time in the codebase — designing services, reviewing code, resolving production issues — while also setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and owning delivery across a functional area. You'll work closely with enterprise architects, product owners, and QA in a fast-moving environment that embraces AI-augmented development workflows. Technical Leadership and Delivery - Own end-to-end technical delivery for a functional area of OMS (e.g., Order Placement, Order Modifications, Order Lookup, Shipping/Routing), from design through production support - Translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional requirements, technical designs, and development-ready JIRA tasks - Lead technical design reviews and code reviews; set and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and clean-code practices across the team - Drive technical readiness ahead of major release cycles — proactively surface risks, coverage gaps, and dependencies before development begins, not after Hands-On Engineering - Design and build scalable, cloud-native microservices using Java and Spring Boot, deployed on GCP (GKE) - Architect solutions for high-throughput, event-driven workflows (Pub/Sub, Kafka-style messaging) with an eye toward fault tolerance, decoupling, and observability - Maintain a consistent, visible individual contribution — commits, PRs, and production deployments — that sets the technical bar for the team Team Development and Mentorship - Mentor engineers through structured peer code review, technical coaching sessions, and module ownership assignments - Build team self-sufficiency by delegating production deployment responsibility, module ownership, and meeting facilitation to grow junior and mid-level engineers - Champion AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Claude Code) across the team to accelerate design, implementation, and review Resiliency, Security, and Operations - Ensure designs account for security, redundancy, disaster recovery, data integrity, and monitoring from the outset - Own change management discipline for your area — mission plans, Change Requests, runbooks, and rollback procedures — to support a zero major/critical incident bar - Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems for your functional area - Drive proactive vulnerability remediation and dependency upgrades (Spring Boot, Java, Terraform modules, Helm charts) ahead of pipeline enforcement deadlines Experience - 9+ years of experience in application development - Strong backend development and design experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices - Experience designing and building highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native systems - Experience modernizing legacy/brownfield systems alongside greenfield development - Background in Agile/DevOps environments supporting large-scale enterprise implementations Technical Skills - Advanced Java and Spring Boot expertise; strong REST API design and microservices architecture - Hands-on experience with GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) or equivalent cloud platform - Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and pipeline integration (GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Helm) Our Order Management System (OMS) is the platform behind how AutoZone fulfills orders across eCommerce (B2C, B2B) and in-store channels — processing millions of orders a year and growing. We're looking for a Lead Systems Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across OMS: designing and building cloud-native services, setting technical direction for a team of engineers, and driving the modernization of legacy integrations (Mainframe, Talend, EDI). This is a player-coach role. You'll spend real time in the codebase — designing services, reviewing code, resolving production issues — while also setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and owning delivery across a functional area. You'll work closely with enterprise architects, product owners, and QA in a fast-moving environment that embraces AI-augmented development workflows.

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Technical Leadership and Delivery
Own end-to-end technical delivery for a functional area of OMS (e.g., Order Placement, Order Modifications, Order Lookup, Shipping/Routing), from design through production support
Translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional requirements, technical designs, and development-ready JIRA tasks
Lead technical design reviews and code reviews; set and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and clean-code practices across the team
Drive technical readiness ahead of major release cycles — proactively surface risks, coverage gaps, and dependencies before development begins, not after
Hands-On Engineering
Design and build scalable, cloud-native microservices using Java and Spring Boot, deployed on GCP (GKE)
Architect solutions for high-throughput, event-driven workflows (Pub/Sub, Kafka-style messaging) with an eye toward fault tolerance, decoupling, and observability
Maintain a consistent, visible individual contribution — commits, PRs, and production deployments — that sets the technical bar for the team
Team Development and Mentorship
Mentor engineers through structured peer code review, technical coaching sessions, and module ownership assignments
Build team self-sufficiency by delegating production deployment responsibility, module ownership, and meeting facilitation to grow junior and mid-level engineers
Champion AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Claude Code) across the team to accelerate design, implementation, and review
Resiliency, Security, and Operations
Ensure designs account for security, redundancy, disaster recovery, data integrity, and monitoring from the outset
Own change management discipline for your area — mission plans, Change Requests, runbooks, and rollback procedures — to support a zero major/critical incident bar
Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems for your functional area
Drive proactive vulnerability remediation and dependency upgrades (Spring Boot, Java, Terraform modules, Helm charts) ahead of pipeline enforcement deadlines
9+ years of experience in application development
Strong backend development and design experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices
Experience designing and building highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native systems
Experience modernizing legacy/brownfield systems alongside greenfield development
Background in Agile/DevOps environments supporting large-scale enterprise implementations
Technical Skills

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