Software Eng Sr Engineer
PepsiCo · Posted Nov 4
Global food, snack, and beverage manufacturing, marketing, and distribution services
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About the role
The Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization at PepsiCo focuses on scalable digital transformation across the value chain, with software engineering as a cornerstone. The team builds full-stack distributed solutions and applied AI capabilities such as AI agents, RAG, and document, vision, and speech models. This senior software engineer role will guide engineering teams, partner with product, UX, IT, and process engineering teams, and deliver digital products and services across S&T priorities.
What you will do
- Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and services (DPS) across S&T core priorities
- Drive partnerships with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
- Develop software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
- Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively.
- Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
- Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
- Develop and expand PSE capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
- Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
- Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of relevant software development.
- Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
- Strong system design fundamentals with a focus on performance and extensibility, and experience building distributed scalable systems.
- Expertise in Java and its related technologies.
- Restful or GraphQL API (preferred) experience.
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React or React Native or related frameworks.
- Experience developing iOS and/or Android mobile apps.
- Experience with large scale messaging systems such as Kafka is a bonus.
- Hands on experience with any cloud platform such as AWS or GCP or Azure (preferred).
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB.
- Experience with observability practices and tooling (logging, metrics, tracing and monitoring) for production systems.
- AI for engineering: experience using coding agents and review agents, and optimizing token usage.
- Applied AI: experience building AI agents and orchestration (LangGraph/LangChain/Langfuse), RAG, vector databases and embeddings.
- Experience with OCR, vision/YOLO models, extraction models (LlamaParse/LlamaExtract or similar), speech-to-text (STT) and summarization; experience with on-device SLMs is a plus.
- Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
- Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization, and collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units.
- Ability to run a medium team of software engineers
- Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
- Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
- Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with a portfolio spanning iconic brands such as Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker, and Tropicana. The company manufactures, markets, and distributes a wide range of convenient foods and beverages enjoyed by consumers across more than 200 countries. Guided by its strategic transformation framework, PepsiCo focuses on sustainable growth, operational modernization, and portfolio innovation.
- Industry
- Food & Beverages
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1965
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Schmitt
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo North America
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Commercial Officer and Corporate Affairs
Becky Schmitt
Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer
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