• Senior Software Engineer

    Kohl's (Menomonee Falls, WI)


    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

     

    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)