About Costco Wholesale:
Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in eleven countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience for their members.
About Costco Wholesale India:
At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing innovative solutions that improve members experiences and make employees jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale.
Job Description:
Position Summary:
Global Digital Experience (GDX) is looking for a passionate expert level backend Software Engineer eager to solve complex problems at a global scale. At Costco, we're building the next generation of retail technology, and we need talented individuals to drive our digital transformation.
We're a company that not only delivers exceptional value to millions of members worldwide but also deeply values its employees, fosters a culture of innovation, and offers genuine opportunities for technical and career growth. The ideal candidate will perform complete cycle development work on Java microservices, associated back-end data store (NoSQL and RDBMS), and integration with other Costco systems.
As a Senior level Engineer, the candidate will demonstrate the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve digital API services in a highly distributed and reliable application, and the knowledge and experience to design, build, debug, optimize and implement solutions. You'll join a high-caliber, Agile engineering cell where collective ownership and real-time collaboration are the norms. Together, we solve complex architectural challenges to deliver seamless digital experiences for millions of members every single day.
This role will be responsible for:
- Delivering innovative capabilities that enhance the member experience across various digital touchpoints.
- Building microservice components from the ground up.
- Ensuring the longevity, scalability and quality of our systems through continuous improvement, comprehensive documentation, meticulous profiling, and significant performance enhancements.
- Mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Job Duties / Essential Functions:
- Accountable for Website Platform's overall architecture, strategically applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security within the design framework.
- Establishes and maintains engineering best practices to deliver higher quality, scalable solutions.
- Mentors and develops software engineers by providing guidance, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Establishes and maintains coding standards, architectural patterns, and development processes to deliver higher quality, scalable solutions.
- Understands the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.
- Works cross-functionally to pilot innovative technologies and capabilities that enhance overall member experience and drive business operational efficiencies.
- Performs development, debugging, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of the product/application.
- Uses test-driven development practices to assist with the detection of software defects early in the development process.
- Conducts peer code reviews for the changes made by other engineers within the team.
- Accountable for defining specifications and documentation across all phases of the product development cycle, from design to implementation.
- Works with the product team on defining the product strategy and roadmap.
- Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on progress.
- Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Assists in other areas of the department as necessary.
- Assists in other areas of the company as necessary.
- Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery
- Same as Essential Functions
Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications:
Required:
- 10+ years of experience in performing API microservices development using SpringBoot and Java, with an emphasis on security and performance.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, designing and deploying applications in a public cloud environment (GCP preferred).
- 10+ years of experience developing and writing unit tests using JUnit, Rest Assured or similar framework.
- 5+ years of experience leading development with engineers in multiple geographical locations and time zones
- 5+ years of experience working on building scalable cloud native architecture
- 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub, Jenkins.
- 10+ years of experience with API development, with an emphasis on security and performance.
- 5+ experience with microservice-based debugging and performance testing software.
- 3+ years distributed cache technologies such as Redis.
- 3+ years event and pub/sub technologies like GCP Pub/Sub, or Kafka..
- 10+ years of experience developing within an agile methodology.
- Solid knowledge of database application development in relational and no-SQL platforms, such as SpannerDB or CosmosDB.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate to both technical and Business audiences.
- Possesses strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills, effectively conveying product vision and influencing a wide range of stakeholders across the organization.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and respond to situations with a sense of urgency.
- Responsible, conscientious, organized, self-motivated and able to work with limited supervision.
- Detail-oriented and possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze potential future issues.
- Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Recommended:
- Experience working in a retail ecommerce environment.
- Experience with Data modeling and Object Oriented design
- Proven practical experience operating in a high scale production environment.
- Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.
- Knowledge and experience working with Web Technologies using JavaScript, React, NextJs
