Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services.

Join our Staples World Class Supply Chain Team and deliver essential products to our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

Help reimagine Staples systems from the ground up and design the next generation supply chain systems (including fulfillment optimization, price optimization, inventory planning & optimization, last mile delivery route optimization). Partner with a team Software, Data, ML, and Applied engineers for building high performing applications that interact with large scale distributed systems. Incubate ideas, prototype, develop, and productionize optimization applications. Writing software programs, test for quality and push model to cloud for production. Fetch big data related to Staples systems, analyze, detect patterns, and build models using data. Instill best practices related to software engineering and constraint optimization problems. Shape next generation technology at Staples by defining the future roadmap for ongoing work.

Hands-on ownership architecting and leading the development of highly scalable & available implementations in public Cloud and on-prem. Participate in the entire SaaS lifecycle driving adoption and scale applying best practices that drive agility and quality. Work closely with product management and program management to derive application requirements, set expectations, and communicate progress.

What you bring to the table:

• 14 years of experience in solving enterprise scale constraint optimization problems
• Hands-on technical leader in the constrain optimization space and relevant solvers (such as Gurobi, or other solvers)
• Prior experience in leading team and building software involving optimization driven planning and decision making at enterprise scale
• Prior experience in delivering fulfillment optimization, price optimization, inventory planning & routing optimization, last mile delivery route optimization
• Participate in all phases of software development including concept, design, prototyping, and production release adhering to industry best DevOps practices.
• Analyze large volume data to ground business impact of optimization-based solutions.
• Diagnostic, debugging, and troubleshooting skills to fix and improve existing systems.
• Self-motivated, high-energy with the ability to execute business objectives.
• Expert in building low latency, scalable distributed systems.
• Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, and are easily maintainable.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
• Experience in leading the team throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience in debugging / troubleshooting.
• Excellent team player who can drive a collaborative environment.

What is needed- Basic Qualifications

• Graduate level education in computer science or allied areas
• 14 years of hands-on experience in solving optimization problems using solvers like Gurobi.
• Solid programming skills in Java/Python frameworks implementing microservices and applying object-oriented principles for application design.
• Understanding of operating distributed data systems at scale such as event-driven solutions, lambda services and so on.
• Expertise building scalable implementations with modern data processing frameworks and relational databases.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices throughout the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience working with messaging systems such as Kafka/Rabbit MQ/IBM MQ/Solace.
• Architecting and developing reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with focus on performance and scale in the Cloud.
• Demonstrated understanding of fast-paced Agile principles with technical designs, iterative development, and code reviews.

We Offer:

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups and resources such as the Social Justice Resource Center
• Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays), Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more perks and benefits