Job DescriptionSenior Engineering Manager – Nordstrom Payments Platform

Nordstrom is a leading fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection.

As the Payments Technology Team, we own a critical pipeline that powers the frictionless online and store payment capabilities for Nordstrom. Our system provides fast and secure payment solutions, enables modern digital payment methods, and prevents fraud & abuse in the space.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee the store payments backend development. This person will build and lead a development team, create a new payments backend infrastructure to support the Nordstrom stores. Over a short period of time, this person will grow the team and scope to meet the Nordstrom customers’ increasing demand of the digital payments experience.

A day in the life…

Build an effective software development team, hire talents, plan resources, manage performance.

Understand the business and product vision, collaborate with stakeholders, and set the team’s technology and process strategies to align with the vision.

Lead the software development activities such as design sessions and code reviews in a hands-on style, ensure the team applies the software development best practices, makes smart decisions and tradeoffs, and delivers the projects on time with high quality.

Understand architecture and systems at the organization level. Drive communications across teams, align timeline and dependencies, drive comprehensive solutions spanning multiple teams.

Drive operation excellence, proactively identify system and process weakness to prevent production downtime, take timely measures to remediate production incidents.

Empower developers, coach them to build their careers, foster team collaboration.

Cultivate technical leaders and grow the team.

You own this if you have…

10+ years of professional experience and a related Bachelor's or Master's degree

5+ years of experience managing technical teams

Comprehensive knowledge of backend technology – Java, AWS, APIs, services, database technologies, etc.

Strong communication, leadership, organizing and problem-solving skills

Experience with payment and store retail industries a huge plus for this role

We’ve got you covered…

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

A few more important points...

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

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