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About the Role

As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings.

What You’ll Do

+ Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach

+ Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team

+ Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes

+ Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context

+ Give and receive feedback that’s empathetic, actionable and specific

+ Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify

+ Establish and lead product engineering and software standards

+ Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test

+ Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices

+ Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department

+ Additional tasks may be assigned

Addendum

SENIOR BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+ Expert in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security

+ Experience with build management tools such as Gradle or Maven

+ Demonstrate understanding of source control systems such as GIT

+ Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases

+ Experience designing and implementing distributed caching technologies such as Redis

+ Experience driving requirements refinement, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

SENIOR BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+ Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.

+ Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake

+ Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.

+ Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.

+ Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.

+ Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA

+ Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

SENIOR UI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+ A passion for stellar user experience and design

+ Proficient in NodeJS and ECMAScript standards

+ Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML

+ Understanding of responsive design

+ Proficient in one or more modern UI frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, or Vue.js

+ Consume reusable component libraries

+ Can compose CSS on the fly

+ Create and evangelize reusable user interface component libraries

+ Contribute to open-source front-end libraries

+ Enforce style guide standards through code reviews

+ Participate early and actively in the product design process

SENIOR SaaS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+ Experience with integration process optimizations

+ Building and maintaining long-lasting vendor relationships

+ Hybrid Cloud Architecture Experience

+ Experience with integration platforms or frameworks

+ Experience integrating with large SaaS systems

+ Experience migrating on-prem systems to cloud solutions

+ Experience designing integration frameworks

+ Experience conducting vendor engagements

+ Experience developing integration testing strategies

SENIOR APP MODERNIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

+ Expert knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies

+ Expert knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test driven development

+ Expert in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java

+ Expert in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS

+ Expert in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL

+ Proven experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

+ Proven experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

+ Proven experience in large scale migrations - Kafka, Debezium, and Postgres Connector

+ Experience in Android and .NET

What Skills You Have

Required

+ 4+ years of experience in software development

+ Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies

+ In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred

+ Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

+ Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

+ Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

+ Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)