Engineer 2 - MISC Team (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Job Description

Are you ready to help build and expand a rapidly growing business within the Nordstrom family? Do you enjoy working on complex routing, shortest path and optimization problems? Are you looking for a team of high performers to help expand your skills and experience? Nordstrom is seeking an Engineer 2 to join our Merchandising, Inventory, Supply Chain, Shared Services, and Platform Technology (MISC) team!

This role is offered as hybrid in Seattle, WA. Candidates must be available to work in office at the Nordstrom corporate headquarters a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position.

A day in the life...

• Design & develop innovative solutions to drive Nordstrom business.    

• Have a passion for writing clean, consistent, and elegant code to create scalable and reliable systems 

• Contribute towards moving the team forward in leading edge processes like continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migration and test-driven development 

• Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software releases over time 

• Assist in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback 

• Contribute to the design and development process as part of a SCRUM team. 

• Transition from application development to support as needed to ensure that appropriate support is available in a timely and efficient manner. 

• Drive build and release plans and implementation of all actions required to deploy applications to production environment.

• Assist Software Development Manager with planning, analysis and definition of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional knowledge and an understanding of the enterprise business systems and industry.

• Have a passion for keeping yourself current with industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs

• Ensure corporate policies and industry best practices are observed and followed in developed applications.

• Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering any enhancements and bug fixes for production systems 

You own this if you have...

• 4+ years of professional experience in practice area  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent degree  required

• Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs 

• Knowledge of Java and Java Springboot framework. Knowledge of other programming languages (like Python, React , JavaScript, C#) is a plus  

• A strong desire to automate everything

• Strong grasp of multiple tech stacks  

• Experience with Backend Database (preferably Spanner) or NoSQL or Postgres databases 

• Experience with RESTful architecture and Microservices. 

• Experience with Amazon AWS/GCP is required 

• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern development practices and development lifecycle using Scrum, Kanban or other agile methodologies 

• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools 

• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, SQS) 

• Experience with writing services as well as consuming services using REST, SOAP, XML, JSON or any combination

• Emphasis on building metrics into the system and providing visibility on uptime and performance via real time alerting, reporting, and dashboards 

• Experience working with diverse, collaborative, cross-functional teams 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to persuade inspire and motivate others. This includes communicating technical information to non-technical audiences 

• You dislike hearing the words “It has always been done this way” and are curious about why things are done the way they are today.

• Have your stylistic preferences when it comes to code but understand the discipline it takes to keep the source code maintainable.

• You love troubleshooting issues and know what it takes to get your code to Production if the Zombie apocalypse hits and the rest of the team is unavailable.

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away

• Life Insurance and Disability

• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources