Software Engineer

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 

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

What Skills You Have

Required

• 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

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

• Exposure to working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)