Senior Manager 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 PepsiCo's 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 as : OpenAI (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.

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