Senior Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

About the position

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Software Engineer V), you will partner with technology teams across the organization to provide engineering leadership and influence design from an enterprise perspective. You will drive large-scale architectural decisions and lead cross-functional engineering efforts to improve scalability, system resilience, and developer efficiency across the Customer Order domain. You will work in a hybrid work environment (Chicago or Lake Forest offices). You will report to the Director of Product Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership to shape and scope top-down 'answer' on implementing digital business transformation road maps.
• Partner with clients to design and evaluate their overall digital reference architecture with an emphasis on digital commerce enablement.
• Be a technology SME across various spaces but grounded in digital commerce, capable of creating and articulating cross-system architectures.
• Establish coding best practices and guidelines, driving their adoption and enforcement across teams.
• Identify architectural tradeoffs, recommend the best option and communicate this across teams.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members.
• Design reliable, scalable, and performant end-to-end architectures – functional, data, technology.
• Leverage industry knowledge and stay close to technology developments in the open-source and cloud communities.
• Report data and metrics that will provide actionable insights and decisions to improve the service delivery.
• Assist in communicating and modeling the overarching company strategy and core values of the organization to create a proper work environment and a sense of teamwork among employees.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with software engineering in a large and distributed environment working across multiple teams.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (React), HTML, CSS, and server-side languages such as Python, Node.js, or Java or equivalent.
• Cloud exposure (AWS / GCP / Azure) from the UI, API and CLI.
• Experience implementing infrastructure as code and automation.
• Knowledge of cloud-native event-driven microservices-based architectures including operational concerns such as performance, resiliency, observability, monitoring, discovery, and routing. (Kafka / AWS SQS)
• Experience with CI/CD principles and be able to support pipeline issues.
• Good understanding of containerization (Docker / Kubernetes), APIs, and web services.
• Experience tuning the performance, throughput and capacity of large-scale systems.
• Knowledge of common DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, or CircleCI.
• Experience using observability, monitoring and alerting tools (DataDog / Dynatrace / Splunk).
• Experience with Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
• Bachelors' degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.