NOTE: This position is offered as a hybrid role in the Seattle, WA area. You must be willing to work in office at the Nordstrom Seattle office a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position.
As a Senior Engineer, you'll be part of a key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals who apply scientific, mathematical and social principles to design, build, and maintain technology products, devices, systems and solutions which 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.
In the Product Platform org. our teams are building a new Product Information Management (PIM). PIM is a dedicated system for universally accessible product information and an ecosystem for the efficient flow of product information to support vendors, merchants, operations, and our customers. In this role you will drive the modernization of how we ingest, rationalize, mature, and federate/egress product data which is used by both our internal/external partners and end customers. The journey ahead will help reduce the lead time to progress items through the various maturity states for ordering, procurement, planning and enabling customer experience in the most seamless and cost-efficient manner.
As a Senior Engineer on the Product Platform team, you will be instrumental in realizing our vision. You will be responsible for the quality of a team's work, ensuring that all designs are clear and complete for successful execution. You will work on developing and optimizing systems that support PIM rollout across various applications and teams (Inventory, Checkout, PdP, Supply Chain, etc.). Your role will involve streamlining processes, automating workflows, and standardizing product information capabilities.
A day in the life…
- Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and theories, combining them with business understanding to design, document and implement clean, robust, and scalable solutions to complex business problems
- Collaborate with other engineering teams, business stakeholders, as well as program and product managers to make technical decisions and influence priorities and tradeoffs that enable solutions to achieve short and long-term business objectives.
- Champion new techniques (like AI tools to accelerate development) across the organization.
- Take ownership of systems or designs that span multiple people's work, breaking work into smaller tasks for more junior engineers to support.
- 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
You own this if you have…
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline, preferably computer science, or equivalent
- 8+ 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
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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
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options are described as broad, including medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside virtual care and mental health support. Additional protections like disability coverage, life/AD&D, and accounts such as HSA/FSA further strengthen the overall health-and-protection offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with a defined employer match structure and access to additional financial programs like an employee stock purchase plan. Commuter accounts, transit subsidies, and adoption assistance add to the overall financial support beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away benefits include PTO accrual, paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental and bonding leave, and a sabbatical program after tenure. PTO sharing and donation options expand flexibility in how time off can be used and supported across colleagues.
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