About The Role

Associate Technical Lead

The Big Picture

Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.

Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide, and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations. Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of “Connecting the world to share food and care for one another” , and our work directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.

For more information visit: www.syscolabs.lk

The Opportunity

We are currently on the lookout for a Associate Technical Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities

The designing and development of 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 documenting design decisions
Carrying out detail technical designing of software solutions
Scoping and breaking down user stories into clear and achievable technical tasks
Implementating technical designs 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 been 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
4+ 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
An in-depth understanding of the technology stack, e.g.: HTTP, browser/JS engine architecture, relational and NoSQL databases, Linux, 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 - the ability 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 Azure
Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
A proficient understanding of agile processes, CI/CD, and code versioning tools, such as Git
The ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication skills, and the ability to exercise mature judgment