
Senior Software Engineer – Checkout & Wishlist
Nordstrom
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $142,000 - $220,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and collaborate with local and partner teams
- Participate and contribute to the agile development and planning process
- Write highly maintainable, easy-to-understand code for RESTful Services, event-driven systems, databases, and cloud infrastructure following secure coding practices
- Demonstrate a foundational understanding of standards, concepts, and principles of engineering to solve the practical needs of the business
- Design complex systems at the organization level with up/downstream dependencies and understand business metrics for the organization
- Mentor other engineers and help them split larger designs into individual work units
- Design and validate all scenarios conform to code quality through complete and automated unit, functional, integration, and end-end testing
- Identify and prevent performance issues, optimize solutions and infrastructure, and lead cross-functional troubleshooting
- Instrument code appropriately, creating custom metrics, alerts, and dashboards
- Ensure adherence to Engineering best practices across the entire solution
- Collaborate with other software engineers on design and best practices and conduct code reviews
- Understand tradeoffs in types of engineering processes and adjust a team process to meet the project's needs
- Test all scenarios and conform to quality and security standards
- Participate in design and code review to ensure quality and testability of feature code
- Participate in 24X7 on-call responsibilities
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional experience in developing REST-ful services and Event-driven applications
- Solid foundation in software engineering practices, data modeling, object-oriented analysis and design, design patterns, and algorithms
- Experience with Web UI development using JavaScript (React, Redux, Node.JS, TypeScript)
- Experience using Go Lang, Java, .Net or other object-oriented program languages
- Experience using AWS services such as Kubernetes, Elastic Cache Redis, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.
- Familiarity with Linux/Docker and open source software development
- Familiarity with test automation and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, New Relic and Splunk
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences
- Curious mindset for AI adoption to optimize work processes
- Passion for new technologies, operational excellence and customer impact.
Benefits
- Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
RESTful ServicesEvent-driven applicationsData modelingObject-oriented analysisDesign patternsAlgorithmsJavaScriptGo Lang.NetAWS
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingCuriosityAdaptabilityLeadershipAttention to detailCritical thinkingOperational excellence
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Engineering