Senior Developer, Inventory Availability & Sourcing

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Developer (Backend) within Inventory Availability & Sourcing .

As a Senior Developer on our Order Management team, you will deliver services developed based on API and microservices concepts using RESTful or gRPC principles for our rapidly evolving products. You will develop solutions built for sustainability and performance, and will improve the architecture to handle our growing number of API or microservices-based applications.

This position is fully Remote .

A day in the life as a Senior Developer (Backend)...

• Working with business partners and product team in the definition of their requirements
• Leading technical design meetings and assisting in defining system architecture and low-level designs
• Designing, developing and maintaining scalable APIs and microservices for middleware and partner applications using C#, .NET Core (3.1), node.js, bash/shell script, JSON/XML data formats
• Implementing industry best practices for API security, policies and versioning strategy
• Preparing test environments, executing system tests, and assisting with execution of user acceptance tests
• Performing capacity and performance testing of services.
• Developing detail design, technical design and unit test plan
• Supporting IT operations, monitoring system health and metrics, system maintenance activities, incident and problem management and weekly on-call rotation etc.
• Driving onshore-offshore coordination, deliverables & activities.

What you’ll bring to the table…

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by various business areas that need access to services supplied by an API.
• The ability to define the solution in verbal and documented states.
• Ability to create estimates for software development based on technical solutions that address business requirements.
• Object Oriented Programming experience (C# and .NET core experience is required)
• Experience and understanding of various databases (SQL, NoSQL).
• Experience in in-memory storages like Redis, Memcache etc.
• Experience in event/message broker framework & distributed event processing & streaming platforms such as Kafka, Event Hub etc.
• Experience in enterprise monitoring, APM and logging tools such as New Relic, Datadog etc.
• Experience working in any public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure etc.
• The ability to mentor/coach junior engineers in the team.
• Experience in using or understanding the containerization of services, its orchestration, deployment, and the toolsets like Docker, Mesos, etc.

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• 5+ years of software application development experience
• Demonstrated logical analysis and problem-solving skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of software application technologies
• College degree in an applicable field of study or comparable experience

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