Back End Developer III

Sr. Software Engineer

Submission deadline for interview selection is 06/14 @3PM CT. Local and hybrid; meeting in office on Wednesday, but willing to be flexible on in office days.

Initial 6 months contract to start - very likely to be longer-termed/ongoing.

Project Description: Retail warehousing product exists to deliver and enhance core systems for everyday inventory management practices as well as bring warehouse industry standards to high velocity retail-based customer fulfillment. Retail warehousing team is the conduit for bringing end-user Inventory management capabilities and innovations to Best Buy locations. We create solutions to enhance employee productivity, enable end to end inventory management flows, drive employee engagement and create better customer outcomes.

Position Summary/Job Description: The BestBuy Digital & Technology team is seeking talented individuals to design and develop custom software as well as support the implementation of packaged applications. This role writes specifications for customizations, data migration, and system integrations as well as leading the implementation of data migration and translation, data integration, custom development, and reports. This role will drive and deliver high priority strategic technical initiatives, working closely with internal Product and Engineering teams in a highly collaborative, cross functional and fast-paced environment, ensuring the programs and projects are aligned with enterprise timelines and business objectives. In order to serve the upcoming Supply Chain portfolio, the qualified candidate will have functional and technical hands-on experience in any of the following areas: Retail Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), custom application development, and integration technologies, cloud migration.

The Sr. Software Engineer is an individual contributor and a member of the application delivery team and will be responsible for coding, defining and executing technology solutions that meet our business’ requirements and deliver the associated benefits. Strong software engineering expertise to facilitate long-term supportable and reliable systems is a must-have skill. This role will be required to apply knowledge and experience to understand business challenges and opportunities, while driving new and innovative approaches to resolving them using a custom developed application. The role is integral to drive modern, cost-effective implementations to meet critical business needs that follow industry best practices. This person will interact with and must be able to influence other technical leads, engineers, managers, product colleagues, and partners throughout the organization.

Skills Overview: What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job? 8-10 years of experience

• Technically very sound – Java, Spring/Spring boot Framework, Angular JS, REACT JS
• Good mentor, ability to mentor rest of the engineers on the team
• Ability to Retail warehousing subject matter expert.
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate, challenge team, business and stakeholders and try to solve the right way.
• Solution and delivery focused.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for? 1. AWS migration and implementation experience 2. Product modernization experience 3. Domain knowledge and understanding of supply chain/retail/warehouse operations

Core Responsibilities of the role include:

• Improving knowledge and understanding of core concepts of SE, coding small features, coding large features, mentoring others, learning and applying industry trends, creating and improving internal libraries and tools, partnering with team-specific stakeholders, designing features, participating and leading in production support, teaching best practices internally
• Demonstrates creativity and takes initiative in solving complex problems with high quality
• Perform technical code reviews to ensure quality
• Keep up to date on industry technology trends and modern software delivery techniques.
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends and look for ways these trends could add value to your products or engineering practices.
• Active participant in planning activities. Contributes to strategic planning
• Anticipates technical issues at the product level and makes architectural and design decisions to avoid them
• Communicate effectively articulating technical decisions to product and technical partners
• Developing and maintaining long term business domain knowledge
• Provide direction to engineering team consisting of engineering and QA resources leveraging diverse development methodologies (agile)
• Enforce processes around development methodologies including continuous integration, static code analysis, test coverage, test automation etc.
• Responsible for maintaining solution integrity through the course of the project including controlling scope, managing solutions for change requests and clarifying solution capabilities during all delivery phases.
• Partners with product, UX, and analytics to drive requirements that take into account all stakeholder’s needs

Interview Process Overview: 1. Initial hiring manager screening – 30 mins 2. Technical assessment – 1 hour 3.