Kohl's, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to collaborate with design, product, and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings. This is a remote role where you will play a key part in building robust applications.
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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science, or a 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).
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, JEE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
- Tools: Gradle, Maven, GIT
- Data & Caching: SQL, NoSQL, Redis
- Cloud: GCP, AWS, Azure
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
Kohl's, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
