Sr. Java developer (local only)

Subscriptions Modernization Engineer

Local candidates to Richfield, MN only. Hybrid schedule - 2 to 3 days/week in office.

Subscriptions is a vital part of Best Buy's business model and its strategy for growing meaningful customer relationships. Our team supports a substantial existing line of contracts and subscriptions and is moving toward a modular, modern platform to support new opportunities such as recurring paid membership and streaming subscriptions. We develop new subscription partnerships and offers that support all sales channels, manage vendor integration, contract lifecycle, activation, and one-time or recurring billing. We partner and interact with many Best Buy systems to provide end-to-end engaging experience for our customers.

Project Description: We are building a modernization platform to replace our legacy systems. This includes building cloud native systems that will replace and/or enhance existing systems to a modern and modular system that can be built to scale. This is an opportunity to take your engineering talent and work with a myriad of teams, drive a passionate group of developers, and deliver end-to-end customer centric solutions.

Position Summary/Job Description

• Provide hands-on contributions in all phases of the project lifecycle – architecture, design, development, MVP, and Dev Ops of key technology initiatives.
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to lead feature implementation on multi-sprint initiatives.
• Work with modern engineering concepts including Microservices, agile development methodology, test-driven development, continuous integration, and deployment practices.
• Bring a creative and innovation-driven mindset with the ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scale, performance, security, and usability.
• Build high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems.
• Accountable and responsible for code and design reviews, aggressive refactoring and collaborating with other engineers on the team.
• Anticipate and solve technical issues and make architectural and design decisions to avoid those issues.
• Work closely with test engineers to help build test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate effectively on cross-functional projects including representing the team in cross-team collaboration.
• Proactively mitigate high impact risks to prevent them from turning into issues and support efforts to manage and resolve issues in Production.
• Occasionally facilitating scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, story design, retro, etc.)

How much time will the resource spend pair programming? 20% or less

Skills Overview

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
• 8+ years of experience implementing and deploying modern application development technologies such as Java, Groovy, Spring, REST-based web services, SQL and NoSQL databases
• 4+ years of experience with modern engineering concepts and technologies including microservices, cloud-native applications.
• Knowledge of and working experience with open-source software as well as networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components
• Experience with Off-heap caching solutions, such as Redis or Memcached, Continuous integration workflows using tools like GitHub, Jenkins.
• Experience designing and implementing role-based access control features.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for? Cloud experience

Interview Process Overview

2 rounds of interview; 60 mins each.
1. Coding