Senior Engineer Software [T500-29894]

About Albertsons India Capability Center:

At Albertsons India Capability Center, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.

At the Albertsons India Capability Center, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons India Capability Center, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

What you will be doing:

Albertson's Companies is re-imagining the grocery experience through a digital and customer experience transformation. The DAM Administrator will oversee daily and business-as-usual (BAU) administrative operations of our new digital asset management (DAM) platform. S/he will be responsible for onboarding new users; creating user accounts; updating/maintaining metadata schemas; onboarding new business units into the DAM and building folder repositories to specifications; overseeing and maintaining automated workflow queues; and reporting on system/platform usage metrics and uptime. This role will also serve as initial points-of-contact for system/platform troubleshooting and user support. The right candidate will be able to interface with different internal and external business units; able to engage & escalate to Engineering when needed; understand basic business requirements, needs, and urgency; uphold and enforce platform standards & conventions; and act as liaison to business stakeholders and librarians. This position requires prior experience managing digital asset management platforms; familiarity with managing digital media content & metadata; and a background in digital operations.

Senior Backend Software Engineer — Backend Development

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. This is a hands-on role in which the engineer owns both backend development and QA for their work. Designing and executing tests—including automation testing—is a mandatory part of the role, not a responsibility delegated to a separate QA team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, define acceptance criteria, and make design decisions for backend systems.
• Own QA for the backend functionality you develop: plan test scenarios, execute functional and integration testing, document defects, and validate fixes.
• Design, write, and maintain automated unit, integration, API, and regression tests for critical backend workflows.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, investigate test failures, and verify readiness before release.
• Review code and tests, improve system performance and reliability, and mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications:

• 6–9 years of software engineering experience, primarily in backend development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python, advanced SQL, API development, and backend system design.
• Hands-on backend test automation experience is mandatory, including creating and maintaining automated tests with a framework such as PyTest, Selenium, Playwright, etc.
• Experience independently performing QA for backend services, including test planning, execution, defect tracking, and release validation.
• Experience running automated tests in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or a similar CI/CD platform.
• Ability to diagnose defects, resolve root causes, and add regression tests that prevent recurrence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems, database optimization, and performance or load testing.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and products involving LLMs, RAG, or AI agents.