Software Engineer - Shopping - Costco travel

Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

Costco Travel is seeking a team oriented, motivated Software Engineer to develop enhancements to our costcotravel.com and agent site. This role requires deep technical expertise, domain proficiency and platform depth. The ideal candidate will have strong Java skills, enjoys challenges, and appreciates being able to apply creative thinking to solve complex business problems. They would also desire to be part of a small team that is goal focused and results oriented.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

 ●      Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.

●      Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.

●      Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

●      Develops high quality, efficient and fault tolerant software.

●      Develops and implements enhancements to make the sales floor more efficient.

●      Ensures solutions are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible; and proactively mitigates against production support issues.

●      Works within the defined development processes and SDLC.

●      Takes part in the design discussions and updates data models.

●      Makes changes to the framework files on a need-basis.

●      Understands and escalates technical challenges with options and recommendations.