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Our company vision is to own the home, and the places where our customers work, stay, and play. We bring the latest home furnishing trends to life for customers through the individual lenses of our ten distinct brands, each serving different life stages and rooms of the home and beyond. Our brands include Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Rejuvenation, Mark & Graham, GreenRow, and Dormify. We are committed to sustainability, continuously working to protect our planet, while building an open and collaborative culture across our organization.\nWith more than 500 retail stores globally and multiple international franchise operations, technology is a core driver of our business strategy. We build and operate in-house platforms powering e-commerce, supply chain, merchandising, analytics, and customer experience ecosystems worldwide.\nThe Logistics Technology team at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. builds and supports the platforms that move product across our supply chain - from distribution center operations and warehouse management to transportation and delivery for brands including Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, West Elm, and Rejuvenation. We partner closely with Supply Chain, Distribution Center operations, and third-party vendors to deliver scalable microservices that keep fulfillment fast, accurate, and cost-effective. It is a hands-on, high-ownership team where engineers work end to end - designing systems, integrating with WMS and TMS platforms, and applying automation and AI to improve how our distribution network runs every day.\nRole Overview\nThe Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, scalable microservices applications supporting Logistics and Warehouse Management Systems. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands-on development expertise, and close collaboration with cross-functional business and technology teams, including third-party vendors such as Manhattan Associates.\nImpact of the Role\nProvide technical leadership for the Logistics domain - designing, developing, and leading delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade microservices.\nOwn application health in production - monitoring, alerting, incident triage, and root-cause resolution.\nLead integrations across Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Slotting, and Labor Management systems and Distribution Center operations.\nIdentify and deliver AI and automation opportunities that improve Logistics operations, production support, and business-user productivity.\nDrive Agile delivery and mentor engineers to raise the bar across the team.\nGuide teams, drive execution, and deliver measurable business value.\nTechnology Platforms You Will Work On\nJava, JavaEE, Spring Boot, and Spring MVC/WebFlux\nMicroservices and RESTful APIs\nKafka, MQ, TCP/IP, and file systems\nJPA and SLF4J logging\nDB2, SQL Server, and Oracle\nKubernetes and CI/CD pipelines\nGit and Sonar\nAppDynamics, Splunk, ELK, and Grafana\nManhattan WMOS\nTransportation Management Systems\nManhattan Slotting\nLabor Management systems\nJira\nAI tools, AI agents, and automation platforms\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide technical leadership for the Logistics domain - designing, developing, and leading delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade microservices.\nDrive hands-on development of Java and Spring Boot services, RESTful APIs, and event-driven integrations using Kafka.\nDefine and enforce engineering standards for secure coding, unit testing, Git branching strategy, and code quality.\nLead deployments and CI/CD automation on containerized platforms, including automated testing and release readiness.\nOwn application health in production - monitoring, alerting, incident triage, and root-cause resolution.\nLead integrations across Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Slotting, and Labor Management systems and Distribution Center operations.\nPartner with business stakeholders and third-party vendors such as Manhattan Associates to translate logistics requirements into scalable technical solutions.\nIdentify and deliver AI and automation opportunities that improve Logistics operations, production support, and business-user productivity.\nDrive Agile delivery - sprint planning, estimation, and delivery tracking - and mentor engineers to raise the bar across the team.\nQualifications\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a Java Lead.\nProven track record delivering enterprise-scale microservices applications in a retail, supply chain, or logistics environment.\nExperience delivering in Agile environments using Jira for sprint planning, estimation, and delivery tracking.\nStrong knowledge of logistics, warehouse management, and Distribution Center operations.\nHands-on experience integrating with Manhattan WMOS, Transportation Management Systems, Manhattan Slotting, and Labor Management systems.\nExperience leading third-party vendor integrations, integration platforms, and enterprise web services.\nStrong business acumen with the ability to align technology solutions to revenue and operational goals.\nExtensive hands-on experience with Java, JavaEE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC/WebFlux, Microservices, and Kafka.\nProficiency with RESTful web services, JPA, SLF4J logging, and application configuration management.\nStrong relational database skills across DB2, SQL Server, and Oracle.\nExperience with containerized platforms such as Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.\nWorking knowledge of secure coding standards, Git repository and branching strategies, and code quality tools such as Sonar.\nProficiency with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK, and Grafana, including alert and notification setup.\nProficiency with Enterprise Integration Systems architecture using Kafka, MQ, TCP/IP, file systems, etc.\nStrong AI-first mindset.\nExperience using AI tools, AI agents, and automation platforms to improve operations, production support, data validation, reporting, testing, and documentation.\nAbility to design AI-agent-led solutions for use cases such as issue triage, exception monitoring, report generation, knowledge retrieval, regression testing support, and operational analytics.\nUnderstanding of responsible AI practices, including data privacy, security, auditability, compliance, and validation of AI-generated outputs.\nDemonstrated situational leadership - 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