Lead Software Engineer - Order Management & Fulfillment

Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger. We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it. Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger. So add your voice. Make an impact. Find your fit — and your future. Summary of the role: Levi Strauss & Co. is hiring for its Digital & Technology Engineering team to build and modernize our global Order Management and Fulfilment platform. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer. This engineer will drive the architecture, design, and development of scalable cloud-native solutions. These solutions will power inventory visibility, order orchestration, fulfilment, returns, payments, and seamless omnichannel customer experiences across our global retail ecosystem. You will report to Engineering Manager- OMS Inventory. We base this role out of Bangalore, working in a hybrid set up. About the Role: As a Lead Software Engineer within the Order Management & Fulfilment Technology organization, you will provide technical leadership for the design, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale Order Management capabilities. You will own end-to-end solution architecture across OMS, Fulfilment, Inventory, Payments, and Customer Order lifecycle while partnering with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams. This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can build highly scalable cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform, drive modern engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead complex integration initiatives across enterprise platforms. Important Results • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for enterprise Order Management and Fulfilment platforms. • Partner with Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and business-driven technology solutions. • Drive the modernization of OMS capabilities through cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first architectures. • Establish engineering excellence by promoting reusable frameworks, automation, observability, DevOps, and secure engineering practices. • Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and build an engineering culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement. About the Job: • Design and implement end-to-end cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that power enterprise Order Management, Inventory, Fulfilment, Returns, and Payment capabilities, leveraging modern software engineering principles and scalable microservice architectures. • Lead the architecture and development of highly scalable, resilient, and secure full-stack applications across backend services, APIs, integrations, and user-facing applications to support omnichannel commerce experiences. • Build event-driven solutions using Apache Kafka and asynchronous messaging to process high-volume order, inventory, and fulfilment events while ensuring reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence. • Design and implement enterprise integrations across OMS, ERP, CRM, WMS, Commerce, Payment, and other business platforms using REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, MuleSoft, and modern integration patterns. • Analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions that balance functionality, performance, security, maintainability, and long-term platform evolution. • Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and technology decisions while establishing engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices across the team. • Drive cloud adoption and platform modernization by leveraging GCP services such as Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, IAM, and cloud-native deployment patterns. • Establish engineering excellence through clean architecture, Domain-Driven Design, SOLID principles, automated testing, secure coding practices, and continuous improvement of software quality. • Define and promote observability standards by implementing monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and operational metrics using New Relic, GCP Monitoring, and modern observability tools. • Lead CI/CD and DevOps initiatives by improving automation, deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, release governance, and engineering productivity using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. • Mentor engineers through architecture guidance, code reviews, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing while fostering a collaborative and engineering culture. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, Business stakeholders, and globally distributed engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and customer-focused technology solutions. • Participate in production support, incident management, and continuous platform improvements while embracing a “You Build It, You Run It”. About You: • 8–12 years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale applications and mentoring engineering teams. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. • Strong experience in Order Management Systems (OMS) and Fulfilment, with a deep understanding of order lifecycle, inventory management, fulfilment, returns, payment orchestration, and omnichannel commerce. • Proven experience designing and building cloud-native, distributed applications using modern software engineering principles and microservice architectures. • Hands-on experience with full-stack development using technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, or similar modern frameworks. • Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services such as Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, IAM, and cloud-native deployment patterns. • Experience building event-driven systems using Ap