Software Engineer - GDX Order Management

Costco 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 Wholesale 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.

The Costco GDX team is looking for a skilled Software Engineer that will design, develop, and maintain services. The individual in this role must have a strong focus on back-end microservices development and have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. This role will also be directly responsible for delivering capabilities to create delightful user experiences for our members, and maintaining them through functional improvement, documentation, profiling, and performance enhancements. The Software Engineer will design and build modern microservice components to enhance our member experience over a wide variety of digital touchpoints.

*This position will be filled onsite in Issaquah, WA, or Dallas, TX.

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

 ●      Supports Systems Architects with the design of the overall architecture of a specific product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework.

●      Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.

●      Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.

●      Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

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

●      Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).

●      Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.<