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

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)