Senior Software Engineer

About the Role: 

Guitar Center’s Merchandising Technology group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, test, and support software systems that power core merchandising and inventory capabilities. In this role, you will combine deep software engineering expertise with strong technical leadership to deliver scalable, reliable solutions, guide design decisions, and help ensure the technical stability of a high-impact engineering team 

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design and Technical Leadership 

• Understand complex business requirements and define effective technology solutions. 
• Collaborate with business and technology partners to evaluate options and analyze tradeoffs. 
• Recommend complex technical designs that align to enterprise standards and support long-term maintainability. 
• Develop best-effort estimates and contribute technical input for project planning. 
• Lead the creation and documentation of clear, complete technical designs for successful execution. 

Application Development and Delivery: 

• Lead complex application development and production support efforts for merchandising technology solutions. 
• Write application code, develop automated tests, document designs, and troubleshoot systems and applications. 
• Implement applications and modules using standard programming tools, patterns, and techniques. 
• Coordinate development environment configuration, release planning, and deployment readiness. 
• Coordinate with application support teams to ensure smooth releases for complex implementations with cross-team dependencies. 

Architecture, Quality, and Operations: 

• Create system architectures, manage source code, and support technical stability for the team’s software solutions. 

• Support quality engineering efforts through unit testing and contributions to broader test case development. 

• Analyze and troubleshoot complex software defects, determine root causes, and implement robust code fixes. 

• Create and maintain system design documentation in accordance with engineering standards. 

• Establish and promote a high bar for design quality, code quality, and continuous improvement. 

• Team Collaboration and Leadership 

• Define and assign tasks, coordinate team activities, and review deliverables. 

• Communicate work status clearly to stakeholders, escalate risks, and propose practical solutions. 

• Provide leadership that advances team practices and strengthens overall engineering capability. 

• Identify opportunities to improve development practices, team processes, and delivery effectiveness. 

• Collaborate closely with team members and mentor less experienced developers. 

 

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Qualifications

Professional Experience & Requirements 

• Required Skills: 

• 7+ years of progressive professional experience on software engineering teams building enterprise software systems. 

• Excellent proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C#. 

• Experience designing and developing REST-based and event-based microservices; Spring Boot and Apache Kafka experienc