Job Description

Job Description

A Senior Engineer 1 is part of a key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals that applies scientific, mathematical and social principles to design, build, and maintain technology products, devices, systems and solutions. These technology products and solutions provide amazing customer experiences while meeting the needs of the business. The scope, responsibility and accountability is at the solution level.

The retail industry is going through changes to meet customer needs and stay competitive. Nordstrom is investing in technology that enables growth and flexibility to persist the perpetual best customer experience. Therefore, we have exciting opportunities to craft the future of a core part of the customer experience: fulfilling the promise of ordered items. We are looking for an engineer that focuses on solving technical problems while working as part of an incredible team.

The overall mission of the Order Management Group is to build a new Order Management System (OMS) that is reliable and scalable, as well as adaptable to ever-changing business needs. To establish a flexible and deterministic platform with continuous delivery and automation to unlock new functionality, customer experiences, and streamlined business processes. The group is responsible for the guaranteed delivery of all orders and enabling flexible integration strategies while remaining aligned with regulations. We use Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka as the basis of our infrastructure in order to allow for easy automation, predictable outcomes, and engineering exposure to cloud technologies.

A day in the life
Your main responsibility is to help lead the technical aspects of the team and deliver in accordance with the mission and goals of the group. Key responsibilities also include ensuring technical decisions are made with data and design requirements while exposing the team to the tools and patterns that provide team growth and success. You will assist in identifying the appropriate technologies to use and evangelize the approaches, patterns, and standards across Nordstrom technology. Our space is being discovered as we go and design decisions are made as requirements and learnings are exposed. Discuss, decide, act, and measure are steps we follow to allow a just-in-time approach for technical decisions with a low level of risk.

You are going to lead discussions and decisions around event systems like event sourcing. The daily tasks will require you to switch between infrastructure as code and low-level Java or Go implementation details. As new standards are identified by the team you will drive the evangelizing of them and adoption as part of the cross-organizational engineering standards for Nordstrom technology. Communication with senior leadership and setting expectations across organizations will be expected as part of being a leader on the team.

You will guide the team on technical excellence with technologies like GCP, AWS, Go, Java, CI/CD, SOX & PCI compliance, and security standards.

You own this if you have

* 6+ years structured and multithreaded languages (Go, Java, C, C++)

* 6+ years on fast delivery: git (GitLab, github, bitbucket), CI/CD (GitLabCI, Thoughtworks Go, Jenkins)

* 4+ years cloud experience: GCP/AWS/Azure, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless (Cloud Functions, Lambda)

* 2+ years eCommerce experience preferable

* 2+ years using event based systems (Kafka)

* BA/BS in Computer Science or closely related degree or equivalent practical experience

* DevOps Experience

* Automation of testing (unit, integration, acceptance, performance, contract)

* Production support tasks, analyzing incidents coming up with strategy for proof of concept to resolve the prod support issues.

* On call production support including exposure to apps/tools/process such as PagerDuty

* Production support monitoring automation tools and metrics with exposure to tools such as New Relic

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Our employees are our most important asset and thats reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

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

A few more important points...

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