Senior Software Engineer - Checkout & Wishlist (Hybrid - Seattle)

Job Description

Are you an engineer who strives to build simple, stable, scalable, and resilient solutions? Are you passionate about working in a fast-paced, high-energy atmosphere, constantly evaluating solutions to next-generation technologies with a relentless focus on automation and continuous delivery? Are you obsessed with quality and delivering the best-of-class experiences to customers?

We are eager to hear if you answered “Yes” to these questions. We are looking for an innovative self-starter to help deliver the next-generation checkout platform at Nordstrom. Sitting at the center-point of our conversion funnel, our checkout platform receives millions of orders each year, generating more than 6+ billion dollars in demand from our customers across the globe.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be playing a pivotal role within the Checkout & Wishlist Team, responsible for designing, developing and testing end to end features while engaging with our partner teams to bring about the very best of-class experiences to our customers.

A day in the life…

• Design and collaborate with local and partner teams
• Participate and contribute to the agile development and planning process
• Write highly maintainable, easy-to-understand code for RESTful Services, event-driven systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure following secure coding practices
• Demonstrate a foundational understanding of standards, concepts, and principles of engineering to solve the practical needs of the business
• Design complex systems at the organization level with up/downstream dependencies and understand business metrics for the organization
• Mentor other engineers and help them split larger designs into individual work units
• Design and validate all scenarios conform to code quality through complete and automated unit, functional, integration, and end-end testing
• Identify and prevent performance issues, optimize solutions and infrastructure, and lead cross-functional troubleshooting
• Instrument code appropriately, creating custom metrics, alerts, and dashboards
• Ensure adherence to Engineering best practices across the entire solution
• Collaborate with other software engineers on design and best practices and conduct code reviews.
• Understand tradeoffs in types of engineering processes and adjust a team process to meet the project's needs
• Test all scenarios and conform to quality and security standards
• Participate in design and code review to ensure quality and testability of feature code
• Participate in 24X7 on-call responsibilities

You own this if you have…

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of professional experience in developing REST-ful services and Event-driven applications
• Solid foundation in software engineering practices, data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, and algorithms
• Experience with Web UI development using JavaScript (React, Redux, Node.JS, TypeScript)
• Experience using Go Lang, Java, .Net or other object-oriented program languages
• Experience using AWS services such as Kubernetes, Elastic Cache Redis, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc., or features on other similar cloud hosted platforms
• Familiarity with Linux/Docker and open source software development
• Familiarity with test automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, New Relic and Splunk
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences
• Curious mindset for AI adoption to optimize work processes
• Passion for new technologies, operational excellence and customer impact

Your responsibilities...

• Delivering full stack features (design, implementation, and support)
• Working across the full stack of technologies (Web UI, APIs, and Infrastructure)
• Building reusable cross-platform components for future use
• Translating written requirements, designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Work with diverse, collaborative, cross-functional teams

How we work...

• With others. We have remote pairing tools where engineers often work together, as well as virtual collaboration tools for building o