Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote)

About the Role

As Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings.

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-quality applications using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers and other engineers on the product team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes
• Contribute to product engineering and software standards
• Influence the team to reduce the toil received from production, advocate for product reliability and influence the benefits of tech debt reduction with matrices
• Develop self and support the development of others through accountability and continuous learning
• Adapt to constant change and model that for the rest of the team
• Evaluate a user story for technical context, feasibility, acceptance criteria, testability and estimation
• Additional tasks may be assigned

Addendum

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Experience in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
• Knowledge of build management tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT
• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis
• Knowledge of full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

UI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Proficient in React and one other modern UI framework like Angular, Ember, or Vue.js
• A passion for stellar user experience and design
• Experience with NodeJS and ECMAScript standards
• Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML
• Understanding of responsive design
• Consume reusable component libraries
• Can compose CSS on the fly

What Skills You Have

Required

• 2+ years of experience in software development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure to working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)