Staff Software Engineer

Description

This role covers the software lifecycle for a large retail platform, from requirements and design through build, testing and upkeep of components and applications.

The job is based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

Responsibilities

• Look through the existing set of software products and solutions to find ones that meet business or technical needs.
• Find gaps between what customers and the business expect and what current products and solutions deliver, then sort requirements by type.
• Spot likely risks and problems while gathering requirements, tell the right stakeholders, and propose fixes.
• Help write user stories for software components and applications.
• Track and examine defects in your component or module, and run regression tests so each fix holds across every code change.
• Review defects from earlier software engineering work to prevent similar ones.
• Find and fix performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance work on applications on your own.
• Track suitable metrics to monitor and assess application performance.
• Do corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance engineering.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Decide which change requests are valid and feasible.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together for specific product components or modules.
• Weigh design trade-offs against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudocode and functional logic for specific modules or components.
• Choose suitable frameworks, platforms and environments for coding, configuration and scripting.
• Help add telemetry by working out which data and metrics are needed in the domain.
• Take part in ad-hoc code reviews to confirm basic protections against known risks.
• Build and configure lean code for the whole product or system, making sure it meets business and non-functional needs, including maintainability, availability and scalability.
• Order software engineering requirements into a programming sequence based on analysis.
• Lead the creation of scripts that automate repetitive and routine work in CI/CD, testing and other processes across the domain.
• Turn customer requirements into a test strategy.
• Select, introduce and put in place testing tools.
• Decide the scope and method of testing for each requirement.
• Make sure test cases cover every test scenario for product and solution requirements.
• Help run test cases to check code and find errors and defects across the whole product.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, information technology or a related area, plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Or a master's degree or equivalent in one of those same areas, plus 2 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Object-oriented coding experience building large-scale, back-end retail applications.
• Experience designing and building scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and REST APIs in Java.
• Experience tuning, cleaning up and troubleshooting databases, and running database management and analytics on Azure SQL and BigQuery.
• Experience building fast, optimized business flows and data pipelines with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience monitoring health, analyzing trends and detecting anomalies with Splunk and Grafana.
• Experience designing and building a multi-tenant reverse logistics platform with MVC architecture, Apache Camel and Apache Spring.
• Experience deploying production systems, keeping services available, and doing DevOps on Azure Cloud and on-premises cloud.
• Experience designing asynchronous, distributed, high-performance services for a supply chain ecosystem using Apache Kafka, JMS and IBM MQ.
• Experience debugging and leading root cause analysis with Dynatrace, SQL and BigQuery.
• Experience supporting customer-facing eCommerce systems by correcting data, reprocessing failed events and keeping service running during outages, using shell scripting and Apache Spark.
• Experience scaling large systems in distributed environments with OneOps, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Any amount of experience with the skills above is acceptable.

Conditions

Base salary ranges from $185,587 to $286,000 per year.

Equal opportunity employer.

The company maintains a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job, applying to all employees.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive awards, paid annually or quarterly.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement and more.
• Eligibility for some benefits depends on job classification and length of employment, and benefits may change or follow specific plan terms.