Country: Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, PolandCore Hours: Must overlap in the mornings with PST timezone from 8-12On Call: Yes - but may get alerts after hours but not expected to monitor - will not start until after 6 weeks.2 Interviews:1 Screening - behavioral & background infromation -1 Design Round1 CodingA 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 are a fast-growing team with the vision to change how Nordstrom & Nordstrom Rack sells to its customers and cardmembers. We are building a new rules-based engine that intends to automate selling outcomes. We have both front-end and back-end services natively deployed on the cloud (AWS). You will get a rare opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the business and the technical strategy, with the possibility of fundamentally changing Nordstrom's core business.Wed love it if you haveBachelors or Masters degree in an engineering discipline, preferably computer science, or equivalent5+ years of professional experience in delivering quality software with Java, Spring.Experience with RESTful architecture and micro servicesExperience with system design, architecture, scaling, and performance testingExperience with AWSExperience with SQL databases, basic knowledge of NoSQL databasesFamiliarity with CI/CD and testing, monitoring, and alerting tools.Knowledge of Kafka or any other streaming platforms;Experiencewith Kubernetes and Docker is a plusGreat soft skills and troubleshooting experienceResponsibilities: Feature design; evaluate designs and provide feedback;Influence quality standards and understand, identify, and measure across the entire solutionIdentify 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 teams Cloud infrastructure., Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in an engineering discipline, preferably computer science, or equivalent
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $21.00/hr.
