The Senior Engineer is a highly experienced technical leader responsible for architecting, securing, and evolving enterprise IT platforms and services. Senior Engineers provide deep subject-matter expertise, lead complex initiatives, influence technical strategy, and serve as trusted advisors across IT, Security, and Engineering teams. This role emphasizes architectural thinking, cross-domain problem solving, and long-term system reliability and security.
This is an onsite position, located in Springfield, Missouri.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Lead the development and optimization of distributed microservices powering core retail and e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on cloud-native, "headless" commerce implementations. Architect high-performance, stateless services for critical digital customer touchpoints, including shopping carts, product catalog indexes, and promotional calculation engines.
- Implement and extend critical retail functionalities, including real-time Global Inventory Visibility, complex fulfillment sourcing rules, and customized checkout/order routing pipelines.
- Design and build high-throughput integration flows between digital commerce platforms and enterprise systems (ERP, WMS, POS, and Payment Gateways) using a mix of RESTful APIs and asynchronous event-streaming.
- Orchestrate tokenized digital checkout systems, credit card vaulting integrations, and fraud-detection touchpoints. Secure end-to-end user transactions while maintaining strict PCI-DSS compliance standards.
- Architect systems to absorb extreme traffic concurrency and volume spikes during peak e-commerce sales events (e.g., Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or flash promotions)
- Drive the containerization of core retail services and cloud infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift).
- Performance Engineering: Provide expert guidance on performance tuning (JVM heap settings, thread pool management), high availability, and fault-tolerant circuit breaker patterns (e.g., Resilience4j).
- Take ownership of automated build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that core microservices are seamlessly deployed via Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
- Work with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate complex digital commerce and supply chain requirements into lean, high-performing technical designs.
- Perform code reviews, establish enterprise coding standards for Java/Spring Boot, and mentor engineers in distributed systems design best practices.
- Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic remediation and reliability improvements
- Author and maintain high-level architectural documentation and technical standards
- Mentor Engineers and Associate Engineers; set the technical bar for the organization
- ALL OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED
EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Years of Experience: 8+ years in enterprise software development, with 4+ years dedicated to designing and scaling microservices within a retail or e-commerce ecosystem.
- Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and domain-driven design (DDD) principles in a retail context
- Proven ability to design and support mission-critical systems
- Experience leading enterprise transformations or large-scale migrations
- Exceptional communication and technical leadership skills
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:
- Advanced proficiency in Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud. Proven experience building resilient, low-latency microservices that manage transactional logic.
- Deep understanding of internal vs. external communication patterns, including REST/JSON, gRPC for high-performance inter-service communication, and GraphQL for flexible headless e-commerce frontend delivery.
- Hands-on experience with distributed caching layers like Redis to optimize real-time product catalogs, shopping cart states, and high-frequency inventory lookups.
- Strong implementation knowledge of modern security standards including OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, and Spring Security to safeguard customer transactions and checkout pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Streams) for event-driven architecture.
- Strong SQL and NoSQL skills, including experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and document stores (MongoDB, CosmosDB, DocumentDB).
- Mandatory experience with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift). Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS or Azure.
- Expertise in Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and API Gateway integration (e.g., Apigee, Kong).
- Git, Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible, alongside cloud-native pipeline automation via GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
- Continuous integration testing mastery using JUnit 5, Mockito, Test containers (for integration tests), and code quality tools like SonarQube.
- Experience using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Dynatrace, or AppDynamics to troubleshoot distributed traces across microservices.
- Experience in highly regulated or high-availability environments
- Technical mastery and architectural judgment
- Strategic thinking and systems-level perspective
- Leadership through influence and mentorship
- Risk-aware decision-making
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:
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Full Time Benefits Summary:
Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Voluntary benefits
- 401k Retirement Savings
- Paid holidays
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick time
- Bass Pro Cares Fund
- And more!
Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit your nearest location or contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years enterprise software development experience with 4+ years designing/scaling microservices in retail/e-commerce
- Advanced proficiency in Java 11/17+
- Advanced proficiency in Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Mandatory experience with Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift)
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Streams)
- Strong SQL and NoSQL skills (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, CosmosDB, DocumentDB)
- Experience implementing OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT and Spring Security
- Experience with REST/JSON, gRPC, and GraphQL
- Experience with Redis or distributed caching layers
- Experience with API documentation and gateways (Swagger/OpenAPI, Apigee, Kong)
- Experience with CI/CD and build pipelines (Git, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
- Infrastructure-as-code and automation experience (Terraform or Ansible)
- Test automation and CI testing expertise (JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers)
- Experience with observability/troubleshooting tools (ELK Stack, Dynatrace, AppDynamics)
- Performance engineering experience (JVM tuning, thread pools, Resilience4j/circuit breakers)
- Domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architecture, API-first design in retail context
- Proven ability to design/support mission-critical systems and lead large-scale migrations/transformations
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and mentorship skills
- Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS or Azure
Bass Pro Shops Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bass Pro Shops and has not been reviewed or approved by Bass Pro Shops.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA/FSA options and an advertised employer HSA credit for eligible plans. Wellness programs plus life and disability insurance provide additional coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, sick time, and holiday pay are available for eligible team members. Hourly employees have seen enhancements to early‑tenure paid time off in recent updates.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Substantial merchandise discounts and savings at company restaurants, resorts, and attractions are a standout perk. A hardship fund offers one‑time grants for qualified needs.
Bass Pro Shops Insights
What We Do
Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, today we provide customers with premier destination retail in more than 150 locations across North America. In 2017 Bass Pro Shops acquired Cabela’s to create a “best-of-the-best” experience with superior products, dynamic locations and outstanding customer service. Guided by the visionary leadership of our founder and CEO Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops is making a significant impact in on the future of conservation and the communities we serve. More than 40 years after Johnny began helping people connect with nature through a tiny bait shop, our conservation mission is to inspire people to enjoy, love and conserve the great outdoors. Beyond retail, Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of boats, plus award-winning resorts and nature destinations including Big Cedar Lodge, America’s Premier Wilderness Resort. Our passion for connecting people to nature extends to our CLUB program where customers earn points toward free gear and experiences, and a series of not-for-profit conservation attractions.
