JOB DESCRIPTION

About Sysco LABS:

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.
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 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 the 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 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 ability to exercise mature judgment

Benefits:

US dollar-linked compensation

Performance-based annual bonus

Performance rewards and recognition

Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes

Paid birthday leave

Team engagement allowance

Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws

Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments

Hybrid work arrangement