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Software Engineer II - Digital Emerging Tech & Innovation (D - ETI Team) - San Antonio, Tx. or Austin, Tx.

🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Antonio, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Software Engineering

🗓️ August 27th, 2025

Python

Edtech.com's Summary

H-E-B is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Digital Emerging Tech & Innovation (D-ETI) Team. The role involves delivering complex coding solutions, contributing to system design and architecture, ensuring scalability and reliability, and providing end-to-end support for digital products focused on enhancing customer experiences.

Highlights
  • Develop full-stack solutions including web frontends, mobile apps, APIs, and backend systems.
  • Work with multiple programming languages such as C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, or Java based on project needs.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and incorporate feedback.
  • Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas with user feedback and real-world usage.
  • Integrate solutions with existing H-E-B Digital infrastructure and systems.
  • Provide mentorship and support to junior developers.
  • Possess a Computer Science degree or equivalent training/experience with 2+ years full-stack development.
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and experience shipping customer-facing products is a plus.
  • Demonstrate high personal accountability, ability to work independently, and a growth mindset.
  • Willingness to travel, work extended hours, and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Software Engineer II - Digital Emerging Tech & Innovation (D - ETI Team) - San Antonio, Tx. or Austin, Tx. Full Description

Responsibilities: 
Since H-E-B Digital Technology's inception, we've been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, make food decisions, and ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital-we're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience.
 
As a Software Engineer II on the D-ETI Team, you'll deliver complex code solutions. You'll contribute to overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, application performance, and provide end-to-end support.

Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company, so we're looking for commitment, hard work, and focus on quality and Customer service. 'Partner-owned' means our most important resources--People--drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Omnichannel Retailing Company.
 
Do you have a: 
 
HEART FOR PEOPLE... willing to provide support to junior developers?
 
HEAD FOR BUSINESS... skills to effectively deliver code solutions and features?
 
PASSION FOR RESULTS... drive to produce quality results with little direct supervision?
 
About the Team:
HEB’s Digital Emerging Technology and Innovation team is our in-house innovation lab where we rapidly transform ideas into working prototypes. We operate as an idea incubator, building and testing new concepts with real users, sometimes going from concept to functional prototype in just days. We also evaluate vendor solutions and provide technical recommendations to business. 
 
What is your background?
  • A Computer Science degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
  • 2+ years of full-stack development experience with languages such as C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, or Java.
  • Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Experience building and shipping customer facing products from scratch is a plus.
  • Experience with Cloud Technologies such as AWS or GCP or Azure is a plus.
  • Rapid prototyping while maintaining appropriate quality standards is a plus.

What is the work?
  • Build full-stack solutions including intuitive web frontends, mobile apps, clean APIs, and robust -backend systems.
  • Work across various technologies and languages based on project needs.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and gather feedback.
  • Prototype and validate ideas quickly, pivoting or adjusting based on real-world usage.
  • Partner with teams across HEB Digital to integrate with existing systems and infrastructure.
  • Grows technical skills and experience, starting to lead small initiatives independently.
  • Able to navigate more complex work that may span multiple systems.
  • Contributes to root cause analysis and gives input on how to remediate future issues.

Do you have what it takes to be an H-E-B Software Engineer II?
  • High degree of personal accountability to self and team for continued growth
  • Ability to operate independently while owning your effect on the organization.
  • Resilient and optimistic when faced with the unexpected 
  • Can manage most ambiguity within scope of daily work and is willing to learn how to proactively disambiguate requirements.
  • Team player - Actively learning the team's domain by asking questions, sharing knowledge with their teammates, and contributing to their team's documentation. Collaborates well with team and partners outside the team (Product Management, Design, QA, etc.)
  • Committed to adding value by supporting the team, contributing your perspective, and committing to the right amount of work.
  • Growth Mindset - Ability to fail-forward, ask questions, apply coaching, and show a genuine desire to learn, grow, and teach. Serves as a model for more junior engineers and consistently demonstrates team, organization, and company values in daily work.
  • Self-starter - Proactive in seeking out help when unclear about priority and dependencies; take initiative to learn the team, the work, and the business.
  • Impact - Understands area of work and shares knowledge with others. Generously shares opinions, feelings, constructive feedback, and gives credit where it is due.
  • Connect - Learning to facilitate conversations to make sure all viewpoints are represented, and that bias is understood. Listens to opposing perspectives and works toward the best solution for all.

Can you...
  • Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
  • Work extended hours; sit for extended periods
  • Work rotating and on-call schedules, as needed

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