Software Engineer - Issaquah, United States - Costco Wholesale

Description

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, 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 Wholesale 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.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They 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 front end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

The Software Engineer in Martech/Adtech at Costco holds a technical leadership role, engineering, and operationalizing solutions following the strategic vision of the organization's Marketing, Transactional Communication, and Advertisement Technology. In this capacity, the Software Engineer will be instrumental in building the foundation to execute the long-term technical strategy, embracing innovation, and providing hands-on experience as a technical leader for the team; conducting research for emerging industry trends, and providing ongoing guidance to bring that to fruition. This role demands a dynamic approach, blending direct technical guidance, mentorship, and active participation in risk and growth management. Collaboration with the business and IT leadership teams is integral, fostering a hands-on and collective effort towards achieving organizational goals.

ROLE

●Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.

●Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.

●Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product / application.

●Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.

●Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.

●Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.

●Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

●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.

●Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.

●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.

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

●Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes, and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

●Develops high quality, efficient, and fault tolerant software.

●Supports, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

●Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.

●Uses APM/monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.

●Collaborates with team members (e.g. Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.

●Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.

●Develops, builds, and maintains high performant APIs and software services for a large scale Retail Media Network.

●Develops robust maintainable, reusable code for managing the functionality, configuration, deployment, monitoring, performance, scalability, availability, security, and alerting for software test, integration, and production environments.

●Plans and implements a series of steps which potentially includes reconfiguration, integration, removal or the addition of application components to enhance the applications functionality, resiliency, usability, and security.

●Understands and translates business/stakeholder technical requirements and assists in analyzing existing solutions to address broader business needs.

●Assists in the creation of simple modular and extensible functional design for the product/solution.

●Assists with troubleshooting and root cause analyses and analyzes defects from past projects to avoid recurrence.

●Develops, maintains, and enhances automated test cases and deployment procedures.

●Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes.

●Builds prototypes of potential features.

●Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents and standards.

●Enhances automation of applications, systems, and platforms and identifies opportunities for streamlining and continuous process improvement.

●Applies knowledge to practical and sustainable applications and capabilities.

●Partners with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders to establish the rough order of magnitude estimates, to create and maintain a robust framework to support applications, and to deliver quality solutions.

●Contributes, interprets, and communicates enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies to the team.

●Develops team vision to drive new capabilities against a published roadmap, in conjunction with management.

●Ensures that proposed and existing systems are aligned with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.

●Formulates and directs activities that align short term goals and long term initiatives while providing accurate and timely estimates (work breakdown schedules).

●Works with teams, management, and stakeholders to conceptualize, design, build, test, and release products.

●Shares relevant information among teams.

●Influences and drives adoption of best practices and high quality standards throughout the division.

●Integrates diverse solution components across multiple platforms using industry standard interfaces.

●Tests and resolves problems, performs root cause analysis, identifies gaps, recommends solutions and preventative measures, and leads team members to solution delivery plans.

●Runs proof of concepts and uses diagnostic/debugging skills to solve current challenges in multi-platform systems.

●Orchestrates reviews for system additions and/or enhancements.

●Promotes and supports a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization through technical leadership, knowledge of business need, development and communication of policies, procedures, and plans, and assurance of solution designs that are in compliance with architecture standards, technology guardrails, security, and operational guidelines.

●Provides leadership/mentoring to team members, implements development efficiencies, creates appropriate documentation, drives operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team, and supports the release model.

●Optimizes team efficiency and performance through high level technical direction.

●Provides technical leadership in implementation of applications, strategic planning sessions, documentation of requirements, tool implementation, database query languages, and programming languages.

●Uses subject matter expertise to support industry standard source control and source change management techniques.

●Presents technical designs and solutions to executives, management, and other audiences to gain consensus and/or project approval.

REQUIRED

●4+ years':

●of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis) experience.

●of experience in developing software features to streamline and scale streaming and batch jobs for data intensive applications.

●of experience working with ISV/IT APIs and developing integrating them with big data platforms.

●of integrating ISV/IT code bases into front end experiences.

●experience in internet-scale distributed technologies (e.g. Solr, Kafka, Mem Cache, etc.).

●experience in enhancing or implementing new features using Spark with Scala/Java, Spark or Kafka streaming.

●experience in maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.

●experience documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.

Recommended

●Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data science or related technical discipline.

●Relevant industry certifications are a plus.

●Experience in retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, supply chain.

●Experience with the following technologies:

●Azure/GCP/ Databricks.

●Java.

●Hadoop/ PIG/ HIVE / Spark.

●Criteo/ Kevel/ Skai .

●LiveRamp/ Transunion.

●Ember/ React for Dashboarding (optional).

●Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and other Adobe products.

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $107,500 - $137,500

Level 3 - $127,500 - $162,500

Level 4 - $152,500 - $182,500, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.