Highlights
As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl's retail offerings. Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Menomonee Falls, WI (Remote) |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1962 |
| Website | http://www.kohls.com |
Description
About the Role
As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl's retail offerings.
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.
Additional tasks may be assigned.
Addendum
SENIOR BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Knowledge of build management tools such as Jenkins or Maven.
Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT.
Database Design experience including either SQL, PL/SQL.
Implementing ETL process with Big Data Technologies.
Required:
- Spark
- Python
- Scala
- Airflow
Preferred:
- MapReduce
- Pig
- Hive
- Kafka
- Sqoop
- Flume
Experience in designing and creating automation workflows and execution.
Knowledge of Apache Airflow.
Developing DAG, Performance tuning of the DAGs and task implementation.
Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as REDIS.
Good understanding of MPP databases such as Teradata and Netezza.
What Skills You Have
Required
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.
Preferred
Bachelors Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or 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).
About Company
At Kohl's, our mission is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives. And there's no more rewarding job than that. Because it's not just about selling things. It's about letting customers know that the things that make their lives better are within their reach. We build great brands, launch new technologies to make shopping easier, contribute our time and dollars to improve the world we live in and dream up ways to empower our customers and Associates to create a life they love. Our Associates make a difference in the lives of our customers. Let us make a difference in yours.
Welcome to Kohl's.