Apply for the Intermediate Software Engineer – Payment Services job opening.Intermediate Software Engineer – Payment Services

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 36497BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Mar 12, 2026

$95 - 143k

Hybrid

Full Time - Regular

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Description

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states. 
  
From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership. 
  
Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix. 
  
Be a part of the Publix Technology Settlement Team as a Software Engineer, where you will contribute to the design, development, and support of modern payments applications that enable settlement processing and enterprise scale financial reporting for all EFT transactions. In this role, you will build and enhance secure, scalable, and resilient applications while collaborating closely with product owners, business systems analysts, architecture, and enterprise technology teams.

You will be responsible for implementing new features, improving existing system functionality, resolving complex technical issues, and ensuring seamless end-to-end performance across the payments ecosystem. As a key contributor to the product lifecycle, you will participate in backlog refinement, write user stories, provide technical input into requirements, and support technology modernization efforts across the platform.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. Effective communication and collaboration with management, peers, technology partners, and business stakeholders are essential. We are looking for someone with hands-on software engineering experience, especially in designing, building, and supporting application components within modern architectures. Experience with Agile development practices, enterprise logging and reporting technologies, database design, and payment processing systems will greatly enhance success in this role.
  
Location: Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)  
Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely. 
  
Why Join Us? 

Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you need focus time, and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.

Operational Efficiency: Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.

Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

Your Impact 

Provide technical expertise on the technical solutions within the product portfolio

Perform industry research and make recommendations regarding technical enhancements, new features, technology, and infrastructure to continuously improve technical solutions within the product portfolio

Ability to provide 24/7 after-hours support in an on-call rotation as needed

Participate with technical teams through problem determination and resolution on complex problems

Work closely with IT management on project and resource planning, including effort estimation

Perform development, debugging, and technical support for technical solutions within the product portfolio

Ability to work concurrently on multiple assignments with similar deadlines

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Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience

3+ years of software engineering experience

3+ years of experience in analyzing complex business problems or processes and translating business requirements into technology solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability, and total cost of ownership

3+ years of advanced Microsoft SQL Server experience in enterprise environments

Experience with development of TSQL queries and design of stored procedures, triggers, views, UDFs, indexing and table partitioning strategies, and Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

Advanced knowledge of .NET and C# software engineering languages used in the product portfolio

Proficiency in software development best practices related to security, scalability, availability, and performance

Experience in technical planning and estimating projects

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years of advanced Microsoft SQL Server experience in enterprise environments
Experience supporting production systems as part of a technical support team, including issue triage and resolution
Experience in leading complex technical efforts from inception to implementation
Strong knowledge troubleshooting performance issues with data store technologies such as SQL Server
Advanced knowledge of software engineering languages used in the product portfolio (SQL, C#, .NET, Databricks, jQuery)
Experience with Active Directory permissions and Group Policy
Experience working with and troubleshooting distributed systems and comfortable in high-pressure situations
Advanced knowledge with logging/reporting tools such as SPLUNK, Dynatrace, and Service Now

Benefits

Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
401(k) retirement savings plan
Group health, dental and vision plans
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits – Jobs (publix.com)

Year End Bonus

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

***Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.***

For this position, Publix does not and will not file a petition or application with the USCIS or Department of State on behalf of any noncitizen for any immigration-related benefit to work and/or to continue to work in the United States, e.g., an H-1B or TN petition or permanent residence.