Senior Engineer - Selling Controls, Price, Promo - Hybrid - Seattle

Job Description

A Senior Engineer 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 and accountability at this level is responsible for the quality of a team's work, ensuring that all designs are clear and complete for successful execution. This level can undertake complex design and problem solving without supervision.

The Senior Engineer role is in the Selling Control & Pricing Organization. We are a fast-growing team with the vision to change how Nordstrom & Nordstrom Rack sells to its customers and cardmembers. We are building a new machine learning and rules-based engine that intends to automate selling and pricing outcomes. We have both front-end and back-end services natively deployed on the cloud (AWS). Price promotions and clearances are core business functions that we already support today.

You will get a rare opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the business and the technical strategy, with the possibility of fundamentally changing Nordstrom's core business.

A day in the life…

• Responsible for feature design; evaluate designs and provide feedback

• Influence quality standards and understand, identify, measure across entire solution

• Identify performance issues and optimize solutions

• Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and theories, combining them with business understanding to design, document and implement clean and robust solutions to complex business problems

• Collaborate with other engineering teams, business stakeholders, as well as program and product managers to define and implement technical solutions

• Demonstrate an ability to turn business needs into functional requirements, while also explaining technical details in ways the business can understand. Participate in defining, scoping, and estimating resulting stories

• Work closely with your peers, mentor junior developers and help the team achieve its goals

• Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing and automation while finding opportunities to continuously improve them

• Drive design and code reviews, ensuring the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Maintain a DevOps mindset, promoting cloud-oriented solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines as well as the team’s Cloud infrastructure

We’d love it if you have…

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline, preferably computer science, or equivalent

• 7+ years of professional experience in delivering quality software, ideally across the full stack

• Excellent proficiency in an Object-Oriented language, such as Java, C++, C#, etc.

• Experience building enterprise level web applications from scratch, should be able to demonstrate deep understanding of technology choices

• Experience with RESTful architecture and micro services

• Experience with system design, architecture, scaling, and performance testing. Experience building services a plus

• Experience with Cloud technologies, proficiency with AWS a plus

• Experience with databases. Familiarity with NoSQL databases is a plus

• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools. Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus

• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals

How we work

• With others. We have remote pairing tools where engineers often work together, as well as virtual collaboration tools for building out architecture solutions.

• With transparency. We encourage open dialog and discourse. We don’t encourage silos.

• With agility. We don’t believe in following a process for process’s sake. We ship frequently and focus on delivering incremental value.

• With open minds. We are committed to building a diverse team of people with unique perspectives. This encourages a healthy and inclusive environment that builds a more sustainable, successful company.

• With pride. We value our people most of all. We invest in ourselves by applying our own strengths and interests to company

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We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s 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...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com. 

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Pay Range Details

The pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.

Washington: $120,500 - $220,500 AnnuallyThis position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf