Full Stack Engineer

Description:

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Full Stack Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). Full Stack Engineers are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of user-facing websites.

Costco’s new Payments team is looking for a highly ambitious, self-motivated, and experienced Full Stack Engineer with an emphasis on cloud microservices development. This Engineer will also have experience managing various development, test, staging, and demo environments (code deployment using Continuous Improvement (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines, backups, data refreshes), as well as deploy and manage software into Costco’s production environment while leveraging as much automation as possible.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve digital payment integration in a new highly distributed and reliable application. This position will require an individual to design, build, debug, optimize and implement solutions in a fast-paced environment participating and working closely with a highly motivated team serving millions of customers on a daily basis. They are responsible for continually advancing the technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment using many of the latest technologies and industry best practices and finding better and more efficient ways of delivering solutions that meet business objectives.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

 ROLE 

Supports Systems Architects with the design of the overall architecture of a specific product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability and security into the design framework.
Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.
Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.
Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.
Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.
Identifies deficiencies within a product / application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
Works with team members to move user stories from the development backlog into testing and provides clarification when needed.
Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.
Demonstrates a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions.
Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.
Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.
Configures, maintains, and optimizes Azure Cloud infrastructure.
Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.
Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).
Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.
Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.
Works with team members to move user stories from the development backlog into testing and provides clarification when needed.
Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in .NET, Java, NoSql, and RDBMS. Participates in the development of high quality, efficient, and fault tolerant.
Delivers automation scripts and unit test automation under DevSecOps.
Performs development, debugging, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
Participates in development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
Understands the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.
Uses tools such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Azure Test Labs and Git to improve and speed up delivery of our products and services.

Required

Minimum 5 years’ experience in performing API microservices development using C# and/or Java.
Experience with developing and running applications in a public cloud environment (Azure preferred).
Hands-on working knowledge of a major relational database (DB2, SQL Server etc.) and/or NoSql.
Experience working in CI/CD, and designing and delivering DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.
Strong knowledge and experience working with Web Technologies using JavaScript, React.
Experience describing the solutions and generating the architecture (Logical, Physical) artifacts.
Application development in Java, JavaScript, .Net, Ember, and C#.
Experience programming in major databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.
Must possess a strong understanding of the software development process.
Experience developing within agile methodology.
Working knowledge of Web Services, SOAP, REST, and XML technologies.
Strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts.
Strong knowledge and experience working with databases.
Strong verbal and written communication skills and be able to communicate to both technical and business audiences.
Demonstrated ability to execute against iteration plans and deliver assignments within scope, schedule, and budget.
Ability to work with all management levels.
Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to multitask and prioritize work effectively in a fast-paced working environment.
Must be detail-oriented and possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze potential future issues.
Must have high integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and be willing to do what it takes to make the team successful.
Must be extremely responsive, able to work under pressure in crisis with a strong sense of urgency.
Responsible, conscientious, organized, self-motivated and able to work with limited supervision.
Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.