Software Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Contributing member of the Merchandising IT team to drive the development, deployment and support of our CI / CD pipelines to support our transformation to a micro-services / SOA based architecture in the cloud.

Leveraging gained and / or educational experiences in operations engineering, connected services, and information technology plus knowledge of industry best practices to innovate and influence operational approaches and solutions in traditional data centers and in the cloud
• Development, and continual improvement of source code management / build and release systems and tools. Provide assistance on these tools across IT as needed
• Collaborate with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering and Infrastructure
• Assists in coaching and mentoring development teams on continuous delivery best practices
• Influence design decisions in SOA and micro-services based applications in public clouds such as AWS and Azure
• Follow through on implementation and deliveries from development to operationalization
• Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting of infrastructure and applications as needed

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education, training and experience
• 8+ years in Application Development or Infrastructure Engineering.
• AWS or Azure experience is required – AWS Lamda, S3, etc.
• Strong familiarity with React.JS, Node.JS, AngularJS, API management, Micro-services and SOA architectures, Java/JEE, Spring/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL DB, Apache Kafka, Maven, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, JSON, application stacks and New Relic.
• Experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS-Sql, etc
• Confluent Kafka knowledge is a plus
• Solid scripting background (Shell, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, etc)
• Strong troubleshooting skills a must
• Strong communication skills that effectively convey key messages, statuses and risks
• Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences
• Experience in supporting product / agile development teams
• Background in systems architecture is a plus
• Testing background is a plus