Sr Software Engineer

Overview 

The Sr Software Engineering Analyst 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 corner stone 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 will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and high-performance backend services that power our applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and develop new features, 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.

Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend systems using Spring Boot.
• Build and manage RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end features.
• Ensure code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and code reviews.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and security.
• Familiarity with AI tools and platforms, such asOpenAI (GPT-3/4, Assistants API), Anthropic, or similar LLM providers.
• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context handling, and AI output refinement.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality mobile experiences.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Write clean, scalable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Debug and fix issues, perform unit and integration testing.

Qualifications 

• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Couchbase).
• Familiarity with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for asynchronous communication.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid knowledge of software development best practices, including clean code, testing, and design patterns.
• Familiar with version control systems such as Git.
• Understanding of security best practices (e.g., OAuth2, JWT, HTTPS, CSRF protection).
• 2+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems
• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into applications, such AI copilots, smart chatbots, automated data processors, content generators.
• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design
• Familiar with version control systems like Git.
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.