Staff Engineer

TJX Companies At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact.

Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer

What You'll Discover A truly global engineering organization supporting Distribution Centers across North America, Europe, Australia. Opportunity to build technology solutions that power the movement of millions of products through TJX's Global Supply Chain network.

A collaborative environment where engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous learning are highly valued. Direct impact on Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Distribution Centre operations, inventory management, fulfilment, and supply chain modernization initiatives About the Team The Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization enables technology solutions that transport and distribute merchandise across the TJX network.

The Retail Distribution team supports Distribution Centers responsible processing and shipping merchandise to stores. Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Staff Engineer – Java to provide technical leadership and drive the design, development, modernization, and support of critical Distribution Centers applications within the Global Supply Chain ecosystem.

This role will partner closely with Product Management, Solution Architecture, Engineering Leadership, and business stakeholders to build scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions that enable efficient warehouse and distribution operations.

The ideal candidate combines deep Java engineering expertise with strong architectural thinking, problem-solving skills, mentoring capabilities, and the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams. What You'll Do Technical Leadership Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale applications supporting Distribution Center operations.

Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering best practices across multiple product teams. Provide technical leadership for complex modernization and cloud transformation initiatives. Review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Solution Development Design and develop distributed applications using Java and modern enterprise frameworks. Build scalable APIs, event-driven services, and integrations with warehouse management and supply chain platforms. Design solutions that support high transaction volumes and operational resiliency.

Optimize application performance, scalability, and maintainability. Engineering Excellence Champion DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational excellence. Improve engineering productivity through reusable frameworks and common services.

Drive code quality through mentoring, reviews, design sessions, and technical governance. Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues. Agile Delivery Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.

Participate in PI Planning, architecture discussions, estimation, and backlog refinement. Support delivery teams in achieving predictable and high-quality outcomes. Mentorship Coach and mentor engineers across the organization. Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

Help develop future technical leaders within the organization. Required Qualifications Experience 10+ years of software engineering experience. 5+ years designing and building enterprise Java applications. Experience leading large-scale initiatives in a complex enterprise environment.

Proven track record of technical leadership across multiple teams. Technical Skills Strong Java expertise, with Java 17+ preferred. Deep knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and modern microservices architecture. Extensive experience designing REST APIs and event-driven solutions.

Hands-on experience with messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Pub/Sub. Strong SQL and database design skills using Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar platforms. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and automated deployment practices.

Understanding of cloud-native engineering practices, preferably on Azure. Practical experience applying GenAI and LLM-based tools to improve engineering productivity and solution delivery. Leadership Competencies Strategic and systems thinking.

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to influence without authority. Continuous improvement mindset. Ability to drive outcomes in a highly collaborative global environment. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Supply Chain, domains.

Experience integrating with Manhattan WMS or similar supply chain platforms. Experience working within SAFe Agile environments. In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package.

TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law. Address: Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road Location: APAC Home Office Hyderabad IN