Senior Software Engineer

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 SOFTWARE ENGINEER (ANDROID)

• Knowledge of Java and Kotlin for Android

• Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps

• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features

• Experience with making REST calls over the network

• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React

• A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (MVVM, MVP etc.)

• Strong understanding and experience with Test frameworks

• Espresso , UIAutomator

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (iOS)

• Experience building UI/UX with the use of Storyboards and Nibs/Xibs, UIKit & Auto Layout

• Experience with making REST calls over the network

• Comfortable working with Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C/C++ and Swift

• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features

• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React

• Knowledge of the roles that tools such as clang, swiftc, ld, actool, ibtool, codesign play in the process of generating build/test artifacts

• A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (VIPER, MVVM etc.)

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)

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