Job Details

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 Kohls retail offerings.

What Youll 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 thats 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 BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Experienced in Java/Kotlin,Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Redis

• Experience with build management tools such as Gradle or Maven

• Demonstrate understanding of source control systems such as GIT

• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases

• Experience designing and implementing distributed caching technologies such as Redis

• Experience driving requirements refinement, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

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

• Bachelor's 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)