Technical Lead
About Sysco LABS:
Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 55th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.
Sysco operates 333 distribution centers across 10 countries, with 75,000 colleagues serving approximately 670,000 customer locations, including restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues and more. For fiscal year 2026, which ended June 27, 2026, the company generated sales of more than $84 billion.
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations.
Sysco LABS’ enterprise technology is present in the end-to-end foodservice journey, enabling the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network and the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer.
The Opportunity
We are currently on the lookout for a talented Technical Lead to join our team!
Responsibilities:
- Designing and developing enterprise solutions for one of the world’s largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products
- Implementing distributed and highly robust enterprise applications that scale for enterprise demands
- Architecting and implementing scalable software solutions and document design decisions
- Carrying out detailed technical designing of software solutions
- Scoping and breaking down user stories into clear and achievable technical tasks
- Implementation of technical design including coding, calling existing services, creating new components, etc.
- Ensuring a high standard of engineering quality through code reviews, unit tests, and analytics
- Ensuring engineering principles and related processes have adhered to
- Providing constructive feedback to team members via code reviews and architectural reviews
Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of experience developing production enterprise applications and managing teams
- Extensive, full-stack experience with web-based technologies and architectures such as RESTful APIs, microservices, HTML5, Java, Spring, JavaScript/ES6, Node.js, React, React Native, Angular
- An in-depth understanding of the technology stack, e.g.: HTTP, browser/JS engine architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, Linux and containers/virtual machines
- Experience in architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable web applications
- Familiarity with a variety of software patterns and principles
- Database skills – being able to understand the use cases for relational and non-relational data, such as implemented code against several different database platforms: RDBMS, NoSQL, and shared storage
- Experience with DevOps practices and working with Cloud IaaS or PaaS providers such as AWS and GCP
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- A proficient understanding of agile processes, CI/CD, and code versioning tools, such as Git
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills, and ability to exercise mature judgment
Benefits:
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
