Senior Software Engineer – Checkout & Wishlist

Nordstrom

Senior Software Engineer developing the next-generation checkout platform for Nordstrom. Collaborating with diverse teams to ensure high-quality, scalable features for millions of customers.

Posted 4/8/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,000 - $220,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerDynamoDBGoJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxNode.jsOpen SourceReactRedisReduxSplunkTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
Life Insurance and Disability
Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

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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