Software Engineer - Merchandising Systems (Remote)

About the job

About The Role

As 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

Develop high-quality applications 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 achieve desired business outcomes
Contribute to product engineering and software standards
Influence the team to reduce the toil received from production, advocate for product reliability and influence the benefits of tech debt reduction with matrices
Develop self and support the development of others through accountability and continuous learning
Adapt to constant change and model that for the rest of the team
Evaluate a user story for technical context, feasibility, acceptance criteria, testability and estimation
Additional tasks may be assigned

Addendum

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Experience in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
Knowledge of build management tools such as Gradle or Maven
Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT
Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases
Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis
Knowledge of full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Experience in SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka and Airflow
Experience in build management and DevOps using Gitlab, docker, linux scripting
Data modeling and design experience, including Bigquery, SQL or PL/SQL
Good understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
Experience designing and implementing data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, Python/Scala
Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines
Knowledge of handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
Experience in the design and integration of GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

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 React and one other modern UI framework like Angular, Ember, or Vue.js
Consume reusable component libraries
Can compose CSS on the fly

SaaS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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 developing integration frameworks
Experience executing integration testing strategies

APP MODERNIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Confident in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java
Proven experience in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS
Proven experience in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Experience in large scale migrations – Kafka and Postgres Connectors
Experience in Android, React, and .NET

Required

What Skills You Have

2+ years of experience in software development
Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies
Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred