Lead Full Stack Software Engineer – Offerings and Engagement - Costco Travel

Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Travel, 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. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

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.

Full Stack Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). Full Stack Engineers 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 user-facing websites. 

The Full Stack Engineer will be the technical lead for one or more teams. This role requires deep technical expertise, domain proficiency, platform depth, and leadership. Typical activities include leading requirements analysis, solution design, technical development, and process improvement coupled with the ability to drive efforts and solution improvements effectively.

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.

●      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.

●      Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.

●      Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.

●      Works with team members to move user stories from the development backlog into testing and provides clarification when needed.

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

●      Collaborates with team