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 BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Expert in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security

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

SENIOR BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.

Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake

Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.

Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.

Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.

Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA

Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

SENIOR UI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

A passion for stellar user experience and design

Proficient in NodeJS and ECMAScript standards

Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML

Understanding of responsive design

Proficient in one or more modern UI frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, or Vue.js

Consume reusable component libraries

Can compose CSS on the fly

Create and evangelize reusable user interface component libraries

Contribute to open-source front-end libraries

Enforce style guide standards through code reviews

Participate early and actively in the product design process

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (ANDROID)

Knowledge of Java and Kotlin for Android

Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps

Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features

Experience with making REST calls over the network

Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React

A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (MVVM, MVP etc.)

Strong understanding and experience with Test frameworks

Espresso , UIAutomator

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (iOS)

Experience building UI/UX with the use of Storyboards and Nibs/Xibs, UIKit & Auto Layout

Experience with making REST calls over the network

Comfortable working with Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C/C++ and Swift

Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features

Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React

Knowledge of the roles that tools such as clang, swiftc, ld, actool, ibtool, codesign play in the process of generating build/test artifacts

A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (VIPER, MVVM etc.)

SENIOR SaaS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Experience with integration process optimizations

Building and maintaining long-lasting vendor relationships

Hybrid Cloud Architecture Experience

Experience with integration platforms or frameworks

Experience integrating with large SaaS systems

Experience migrating on-prem systems to cloud solutions

Experience designing integration frameworks

Experience conducting vendor engagements

Experience developing integration testing strategies

SENIOR APP MODERNIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Expert knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies

Expert knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test driven development

Expert in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java

Expert in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS

Expert in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL

Proven experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes

Proven experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

Proven experience in large scale migrations - Kafka, Debezium, and Postgres Connector

Experience in Android and .NET

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)