Long Term Contract - REMOTE - Senior Software EngineerCommerce Services is a team within the IT Platform organization, responsible for developing and supporting a growing number of critical enterprise applications. The team is responsible for the creation and evolution of the modern service-based platform. Comprised of key core services including Order Management, real time Inventory Availability, Pricing, and more, the team will provide a structured way to develop and evolve service implementations. Key to this approach is the instantiation of an API-centric developer ecosystem that enables solutions to easily construct consumer-facing applications by accessing these platform services.Successful candidates will be strong developers who take ownership of his/her applications, demonstrate critical thinking in design, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivering and supporting scalable, high performance enterprise-level APIs.
The implementation around enterprise systems require strong critical thinking skills, creative engineering balanced with high quality and customer focus. The ideal candidate is one that is not only passionate about software development and software architecture but also focus on business needs and customer experience. The day-to-day work is interesting, challenging and fast-paced!Essential Duties And Responsibilities:• Work with business stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and other IT teams to understand the business needs and their requirements.• Work with a nimble team of software engineers and enterprise architects to ensure the solutions meet our business needs using Agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment.• Will often require to take a lead role in the entire development cycle, conduct design and code reviews, and have a heavy input throughout the process, from requirements to production deployment.• Able to shift between priorities as needed throughout the workday.• Create technical system specifications and ensure documentation remains current throughout all phases of the SDLC.• Raise up opportunities, enhancements, and process improvements. Communicate timely status, including any potential risks/issues of the assignments to management.• Research, design, define, develop, test, document and implement new service APIs or changes to existing services.
Participate in test planning, development, and execution for integration and system testing.• Learn new software tools and skills as needed. Keep up with technologies. Provide mentoring to other development staff on technical topics.• Support and maintain applications utilizing required tools and technologies. Ensure applications are scalable and operate efficiently in the production environment.• Ability to research issues across multiple key systems and databases.
Assist customers and team members on issue resolution and problem solving.• Participate in an on call rotation to provide system support outside of normal working hours.• Comfortable working in an open, dynamic, rapidly changing environment where collaboration is crucial.• Extended hours may require during peak workloads or special projects.• Must be self-motivated and take initiative.QualificationsTechnical Skills• 7 to 10 years of experience in Java middle-tier applications in a J2EE environment• Strong familiarity with API management, micro-services, Java/J2EE application stacks• Strong experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment• Experience in large scale applications – either public facing web applications or applications with large numbers of concurrent users.• Experience with either on-line or in-store retail selling applicationsDeep hands-on experience with the following technologies:• Deep technical hands-on experience creating and consuming REST API services with JSON• Experience developing and deploying solutions in major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, etc).• Experience with Docker, or related container-oriented technologies (i.e. Docker Enterprise Edition, Kubernetes, etc.).• Comfortable implementing continuous integration / continuous delivery process for applications using technologies such as Jenkins and Git.• Experience with Test Driven Development, including writing and implementing automated unit, system, and integration tests.• Experience with PostgresDB and/or Oracle 12c. Ability to define tables, create SQL queries, etc.• Experience building micro-services using Spring Boot• Practical knowledge of New Relic, Splunt, DynamoDB are preferred but not required.Communication Skills• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, work with architects to come to an agreed technical approach, and lead development efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.• Ability to work collaboratively with or lead cross-functional teams with minimal supervision.• Ability to drive consensus within a team and influence outcomes in significant technical decision-making.• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to work with different business groups as well as IT partners (enterprise architects, vendors, etc.) at all levels within the organization.Education and/or Experience• Master’s Degree within the STEM discipline and 10 years of systems engineering experience, OR Bachelor of Science with the STEM discipline and 15 years' systems engineering experience, OR equivalent practical experience with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and API design.• Strong integration architecture experience with familiarity of the retail order management process.• Experience and understanding of enterprise Integration concepts and technologies including ESB, SOA based solutions, transactional systems, message-oriented middleware, canonical message model pattern, JMS, continuous integration framework, REST, SOAP, and web services.• Broad knowledge of service and client development, different open source framework, application performance tuning, Agile Scrum methodology, software engineering best practices.• Experience of developing low latency, highly available and scalable distributed systems in an environment with high volumes of transactions.• Experience of building middle-tier services that integrate with various external systems and vendors with enterprise middleware technologies and different standardized communication protocols.• Experience of defining system architectures and designs, exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs, and making data-driven decisions.• Experience in supporting large-scale web applications and enterprise service software.Certificates, Licenses, Registrations• Java SE Programmer preferred.