Software Engineer IV REST, Java, Groovy, Spring

Software Engineer IV (REST, Java, Groovy, Spring)
Location: Richfield, MN (Hybrid)

Tell us about your department:

Our Customer Relationship and Engagement Technology department consists of several teams supporting various customer experience aspects (e.g. user account, browse, search, cart, checkout).

Project Description:

This specific role will be part of the Inspired Discover Services Team. The Inspired Discovery Services Team is responsible for leading edge rest services that will be utilized to personalize the online user experience on the dotcom systems. This team builds and manages highly scalable and performant API's and pipelines that are deployed to two different public cloud data centers. The team follows Agile methodology to manage delivery of application features.

Position Summary/

In this role, you will be part of a high-performance engineering team that partners with various domain teams at our company to deliver innovative solutions that improve the customer dotcom experience. You will partner with BSAs, Product Managers and Engineers to validate the system against the requirements. You will be expected to maintain the thoroughness needed to be able to rapidly deliver functionality with a dev-ops slant.

Skills Overview:
At least 8 years of experience for all the following

• Experience building highly scalable and performing applications (candidate understands considerations for state, session management, caching, consistency, concurrency, threading, messaging, and inter-system dependencies)

• Highly proficient in industry current software development techniques (patterns, principles, and processes)

• Advanced expertise in developing REST web services using Groovy, Java, Jersey, and Spring.

• Candidate must be prepared to pair program in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.

• BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience)

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products like Data Flow, CloudSQL, BigQuery, AI Platform, etc. is highly desirable

• Experience with Machine Learning libraries is a plus

• Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development

• Any level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Riak, Cassandra, etc.) and/or Splunk is a plus.

• Knowledge of and working experience with open source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, etc.).

• Experience performance testing and subsequent tuning of web services including caches, web servers and data stores.

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Hadoop, etc.)

• DevOps infrastructure experience (chef, puppet, open stack)
• DICE
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