A Senior Engineer is part of a key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals that applies scientific, mathematical, and social principles to design, build, and maintain technology products, devices, systems, and solutions. These technology products and solutions provide amazing customer experiences while meeting the needs of the business. The scope and accountability at this level is responsible for the quality of a team's work, ensuring that all designs are clear and complete for successful execution. This level can undertake complex design and problem solving without supervision.
We'd love it if you have...
Bachelor's or Master's degree in an engineering discipline, preferably computer science, or equivalent
10+ years of professional experience in delivering quality software with Java, Spring.
Experience with RESTful architecture and micro services
Experience with system design, architecture, scaling, and performance testing
Experience with AWS
Experience with SQL databases, basic knowledge of NoSQL databases
Familiarity with CI/CD and testing, monitoring, and alerting tools.
Knowledge of Kafka or any other streaming platforms;
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
Great soft skills and troubleshooting experience
Responsibilities
Feature design; evaluate designs and provide feedback;
Influence quality standards and understand, identify, and measure across the entire solution
Identify performance issues and optimize solutions;
Demonstrate competence in engineering concepts and theories, combining them with business understanding to design, document, and implement clean and robust solutions to complex business problems;
Collaborate with other engineering teams, business stakeholders, as well as program and product managers to define and implement technical solutions;
Demonstrate an ability to turn business needs into functional requirements, while also explaining technical details in ways the business can understand. Participate in defining, scoping, and estimating resulting stories;
Work closely with your peers, mentor junior developers, and help the team achieve its goals;
Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing, and automation while finding opportunities to improve them continuously.
Drive design and code reviews, ensuring the team ships high-quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested code;
Monitor/support the system in production (Pager Duty);
Maintain a DevOps mindset, promoting cloud-oriented solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines as well as the team's Cloud infrastructure.
Skills
Technology Stack Used:
Java
Spring Boot
Kafka
PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis
AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, EC2, ECS)
Kubernetes
Must-have Skills
Strong knowledge of Java
Strong knowledge of Spring/SpringBoot
Experience with Kafka
Experience with Git version control system
Working knowledge of non-relational and relational databases
AWS
Nice-to-have Skills
Experience with monitoring/troubleshooting tools like NewRelic, Splunk
Experience with infrastructure as a code (Terraform)
Performance testing with Jmeter or any other tool