Lead Software Engineer

Costco Travel 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.

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 Travel IT family. Costco Travel 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

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They 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 front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

Typical activities include leading requirements analysis, solution design, technical development and process improvement coupled with the ability to drive efforts and solution improvements effectively.

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ROLE

● Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability and security into the design framework.

● Supports Systems Architects with the design of the overall architecture of a specific product/application, applying principle that promote availability, reusability, interoperability and security into the design framework.

● Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

● Demonstrates a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions.

● Demonstrates technical leadership to manage and provide multiple technical solutions, performs code reviews, and establishes and enforces coding guidelines and best practices.

● Manages technical design and development of in-house travel booking web applications based on the gathered requirements for multiple development teams.

● Leads and collaborates effectively in planning, decomposing, and estimating new delivery work.

● Ensures solutions are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible; proactively mitigates against production support issues.

● Initiates and facilitates team meetings to socialize technical ideas, encourages a culture of technical excellence within the organization and identifies opportunities for adopting innovation.

● Maintains a voice for good engineering, understanding implications of design and implementation choices.

● Provides coaching and mentoring to team members disseminating information through documentation, workshops, etc. to drive operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team.

● Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.

● Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.

● Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.

● Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.

● Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.

● Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.

● Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

● 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.

● Drives 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.

● 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.

● Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.

● Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

● Develops high quality, efficient and fault tolerant software.

● Supports, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

● Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.

● Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.

● Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors’ junior engineers.

● Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.

● 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.

REQUIRED

● 8+ years of designing and developing client/server models and/or web-based applications using Java Enterprise Editions technologies (such as Servlet, Java Server Pages, or Spring).

● 5+ years of designing and developing database technologies with Java Database Connectivity or an equivalent data-tier framework to connect to relational databases or No-SQL databases.

● 5+ years using relational databases (such as MS-SQL Server or T-SQL) to create and modify tables, data structures, stored procedures, and other database functions, or use of ORM tools like Hibernate to manage relational data.

● 3+ years developing REST-ful services (microservices) using Java technologies like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud or Jersey.

● Good understanding and experience with SOAP and/or REST based Web services.

● Quick learner with the ability to learn and incorporate new technologies and concepts.

● Self-motivated, dedicated, and driven to succeed.

● Able to easily shift focus with changing priorities.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record in technical troubleshooting, clear communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Recommended

● Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

● A passion for being part of a team, willing to self-assess to continually find better ways to do things.

● Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment.

● Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

● Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.

Required Documents

●      Cover Letter

●      Resume

 

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Pay Range: $130,000 - $160,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

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