Senior Software Engineer - Merchandising Systems (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

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 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) 

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner